The Hall of Fire

Here's an argument I can't possibly win, but I still think I'm right: In a speech today, First Lady Jill Biden in a speech addressing members of UnidosUS (formerly La Raza) about its former president, Ambassador Raul Yzaguirre: “Raul helped build this organization with the understanding that the di...

Here's the lede from an article in the Times-Picayune , a Louisiana newspaper: In the days following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , a Louisiana doctor prescribed a medication called Cytotec to make the insertion of an IUD, the most effective form of birth control, less painfu...

The richest or second-richest man in the world, erratic tech mogul Elon Musk (given Russia's recent history, Musk might actually be richer than Vladimir Putin), tonight tweeted: I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset. Dems should also call off the...

Here's video of a Fox News host suggesting that U.S. gas prices are falling too quickly for "small, independently-owned ... mom & pop gas stations" to manage their inventory: "it's a struggle for all of them." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Here's an argument I can't possibly w...

President Biden got to unveil the first full-color image from the Webb telescope: https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1546621112297168896 Click here for a version you can zoom on. Edit #1: NASA says: "This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand h...

The sad thing is that what Walker is saying in those two videos, though poorly expressed, is really just standard conservative talking points.

A new study finds that: Democrats believe 44% of Republicans earn $250,000 or more per year. Actually, only 2% Republicans make that much. Democrats believe that 40% of Republicans are senior citizens. In truth, fewer than 20% of Republicans are seniors. Republicans believe that 38% of Democrats are...

In Michigan, abortion rights activists have submitted signatures to put an initiative on the November ballot to amend the state constitution to protect reproductive rights and block a 1931 state abortion ban that had previously been overturned by Roe v. Wade -- the initiative requires 425,000 signat...

Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by Donald Trump, today issued multiple rulings against Steve Bannon in a hearing concerning his upcoming trial for contempt of Congress. The reporter to whom I linked describes today's hearing as "an absolute rout" in favor of the Department of Justice...

The Washington Post is reporting that "Trump considers waiving claim of executive privilege for Steve Bannon" as regards the events of January 6th, never mind the sheer ridiculousness that someone who hadn't worked in the White House for more than three years could be covered by Executive...

Lots of Republican commentators pointed to Biden falling off his bike a few weeks ago as showing that he was too old to be President.

Is this Secret Service agent too old for his job?

Remember, the January 6th Committee subpoena to which Steve Bannon didn't respond -- which has led to him being charged with contempt with a trial coming up in a few weeks -- was not only for his testimony but for documents and other material, like the recordings of his podcast. (And how on earth is...

Congresswoman Debbie Lasko, Republican of Arizona, is on the verge of tears as she says ( video ) that she would "shoot" her grandchildren in order to "protect" them and that gun control laws would "take away my right to protect [i.e., murder?] my grandchildren." I don...

Not sure where else to put this. Since 1982, the Siena College Research Institute has surveyed historians seven times (at irregular intervals) to poll their ranking of all U.S. presidents based on twenty categories (e.g., Integrity, Domestic Accomplishments, Relationship with Congress, Communication...

He mixes it with love and makes the world taste good:



Will we learn on Tuesday what inspired this little tantrum today?

Columbus Dispatch : "Ohio girl, 10, travels to Indiana to get an abortion because Ohio bans abortion at 6 weeks and she’s 6 weeks & 3 days pregnant." That's right. They're trying to force 10-year-old girls to give birth. Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler notes that this now w...

The Department of Justice has notified the court of certain evidence it plans to submit in the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial, to include: First, evidence that certain co-conspirators traveled to Washington, D.C., in November 2020 and, like for January 6, 2021, organized an armed Quick Rea...

The Department of Justice has notified the court of certain evidence it plans to submit in the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial, to include: First, evidence that certain co-conspirators traveled to Washington, D.C., in November 2020 and, like for January 6, 2021, organized an armed Quick Reac...

The Washington Post is reporting that "Trump considers waiving claim of executive privilege for Steve Bannon" as regards the events of January 6th, never mind the sheer ridiculousness that someone who hadn't worked in the White House for more than three years could be covered by Executive ...

Her comments are pretty stupid (two obvious errors in the quote below: "hundreds of thousands" rather than millions; and "different color of skin," which does not describe most Holocaust victims relative tot the people who killed them), but it doesn't appear that she's pushing ra...