The Hall of Fire

Donald Trump tonight said President Biden isn't strong enough in his support for Israel, but Trump's supporters apparently feel Biden is too supportive of Israel? https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1779299432309129455 Edited to note this interpretation : maybe they're using "genocide"...

About an hour ago: "IDF lifts order for Israelis to stay near safe rooms, indicating Iran attack over for now."

(This means the drones arrived faster than the nine-hour timeline I mentioned above.)

Even if Donald Trump loses every appeal, look to the example of O.J. Simpson as a reminder that Trump may yet find a way not to pay that $464 million. Simpson, who died a few days ago, was an athlete and actor who murdered two people in 1994 -- his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman -- ...

Reportedly Jordan's air force shot down some of the Iranian drones en route to Israel. Also reading that Iran also launched some missiles, most of which were shot down by Israel's counter-missiles, but some of which struck an Israeli military base causing some minor damage. And apparently an Iranian...

In 2015, Tom Sheehy, now the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Montana, "was cited for illegally discharging a weapon in a national park". But in campaign ads, Sheehy has said "I got thick skin — though it’s not thick enough. I have a bullet stuck in this arm still from Afgha...

About three hours ago, Iran reportedly launched hundreds of drones in an attack on Israel. Apparently it's a nine-hour flight (over Iraq and Syria or Jordan), so any strikes are unlikely to happen for another six hours. The U.S. has already shot down some drones over Iraq. I've seen reports indicati...

Elon Musk and Ken Paxton were handed a joint loss today when a federal judge issued an injunction preventing the Texas attorney general from getting documents from Media Matters in an investigation that seems to have been launched on behalf of Musk after Media Matters published an article about Twit...

The judge in one of Hunter Biden's two federal criminal cases -- the one in California -- has ruled against Hunter's various motions to dismiss and did so well ahead of schedule. This was not unexpected (such motions usually fail). One of the decisions the judge made, however, was that the pre-tria...

Donald Trump says Republicans don't need to push for a national ban on abortions because "we broke Roe v. Wade."

https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2dbd1e6/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1755x987+0+0/resize/1486x836!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F16%2Fff%2F8933408340a32178c0f1e706fe62%2Fla-1532037309-r58iwhs375-snap-image CNN: " FBI interview tran...

I think this advice (written more than twelve hours before Biden's speeech) is right: President Biden has improved people's lives and they haven't noticed. That's because people's understanding of the world is determined by their information diet, not their material conditions. President Biden need...

The Biden campaign certainly seems to believe that access to abortion remains a potent issue for voters:

Donald Trump colluded with Russia. I can't believe that point needs to be restated, but a National Public Radio reporter named Uri Berliner has written a column for the The Free Press titled "I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust." In that piece, Berliner notes...

From last year, but not linked here before, as far as I can tell: "Trump Asks Advisors for 'Battle Plans' to 'Attack Mexico' If Reelected" (Rolling Stone).

Democrats have a lot of work to educate potential voters. The media could help out by writing stories that make it clear which party supports which positions: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GK5yjK2W4AAODM3?format=jpg&name=900x900 Because who will she be "punishing"? Not most Democratic po...

Axios today tweeted about a new article. The headline and introduction of the article match the tweet, which reads: "The latest Axios-Ipsos Latino poll, in partnership with Noticias Telemundo, finds that more Latinos are saying they support building a border wall and deporting all undocumented ...

I heard later yesterday that RFK Jr. was backing away from this email [that referred to January 6th insurrectionists as "activists"] and blaming it on some misguided associates. But today he issued a statement that, in the guise of "listening to people of diverse viewpoints," ra...

Donald Trump colluded with Russia. I can't believe that point needs to be restated, but a National Public Radio reporter named Uri Berliner has written a column for the The Free Press titled "I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust." In that piece, Berliner notes ...

The Arizona Republic reports that the state's Republicans today blocked legislation that would have overturned the 1864 law that was upheld yesterday by the state's supreme court and criminalizes almost all abortions. - - - - - - - - - - In 2018, then-President Trump asked Congress to pass a 20-week...

The New Hampshire Union-Leader and various other outlets have reported over the past few days that newly available employment records (released by order of the state's Supreme Court) reveal that State Representative Jonathan Stone, who describes himself as "tough on crime," wasn't so fond ...