The Hall of Fire

I don't think any comment about this is necessary. [CREW: "Harlan Crow made a maximum allowed donation to Cornel West's presidential campign"] O brother, who art thou? Forbes reports on "Why Cornel West Is Broke," explaining that "new uncovered divorce filings reveal allega...

Rita Palma, RFK Jr.'s campaign chair in New York, posted on Parler that Donald Trump is her favorite president, and she said she wished Trump could serve three terms. She also criticized Sen. Mitch McConnell for having blamed Donald Trump for the violence of January 6th by saying, "Actually th...

The annual inflation rate rose from 3.2% to 3.5% in March. That's not terrible, and there a reasons to think it will turn around, but it's well above the Federal Reserve target rate of 2% and will delay the reduction of interest rates. - - - - - - - - - - Axios reports that President Biden "pla...

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...

The state chair for Robert F. Kennedy's campaign in New York says in this video that RKF Jr. and Donald Trump share a mutual "enemy" in President Biden, and she urges Trump voters to vote for RFK in states that otherwise would go to Biden in order that no candidate gets 270 electoral vote...

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:43 pm We also can suppose from Trump's statement issued just yesterday that he supports today's decision, since he said that this will be decided in each state.

It appears that we need not suppose:

A few minutes ago, Kevin McCarthy said that he's no longer the Speaker of the House "because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old."

On the Dept. of Justice website: " Florida Residents Plead Guilty To Conspiracy To Commit Interstate Transportation Of Stolen Property . Pleas Follow Filing of Criminal Information Alleging Defendants Stole Property Belonging to Immediate Family Member of a Then-Former Government Official.&quo...

Matt Yglesias notes that it wasn't just Kari Lake who was pushing for today's decision: "Arizona Republicans passed a court-packing bill, packed the court with conservative judges, and are now claiming they had no idea that a solidly right-wing court would implement the Republican Party's platf...

Donald Trump's proposed tariffs would increase the cost of groceries in the United States, particularly fresh fruit and vegetables, coffee, and seafood. - - - - - - - - - - Biden may have trouble getting on Ohio’s general election ballot, state’s top election official warns Now Alabama's Secretary o...

Bret Stephens, a conservative columnist at the New York Times (and who is disliked by many liberals), has a hawkish new column with a twist: " Netanyahu Must Go ." Israel must destroy Hamas as a military and political force in the territory while minimizing harm to civilians. It must do wh...

And the stupidest impeachment ever just happened: by a vote of 214-213, Republicans have voted to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, for nothing. All 214 yes votes were cast by Republicans. The same three Republicans as last week joined 210 Democrats in voting no. Presi...

NBC reports on the arrest of former FBI agent, Jared Wise, who worked for that agency from 2004 to 2017. The FBI this week arrested a former bureau supervisor in connection with the Jan. 6 riot who they said called for killing officers protecting the Capitol that day. ... Wise was charged with ente...

Almost two years later in Cleveland : Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman pleaded guilty to the fifth-degree felony of telecommunications fraud [for a robo-call campaign that engaged in voter suppression]. That state crime carries a maximum possible penalty of one year's imprisonment. It's not clear what t...

Kari Lake, the Arizona Republican who lost the race for governor in 2022 (I can't remember if she ever conceded that election)* and is now running for U.S. Senate, then described the 1864 anti-abortion statute upheld today by Arizona's Supreme Court a "great law" and said that she expected...

N.E.B. (or anyone else) can you confirm whether this is real? I'm having a hard time believing that it is. As far as I can tell, that video by Annie Andrews is just a comedy bit meant to evoke Nicole Shanahan's style and/or comments (I have no idea how accurately). Google has really declined in use...

A new ad from the Biden-Harris campaign. Stark but necessary:

The Times of Israel , whose coverage is said to skew center-right, quotes Donald Trump as saying that President Biden is "100% on the Palestinians' side" and saying "I don't get how Jews vote Democrat." Edited to note that a different source is quoting Trump as saying, "Any ...

Missed this yesterday: speaking on Fox News, Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley listed China, Iran, and Ukraine as nations which are more "aggressive" because of President Biden's supposed fecklessness. Could be a slip of the tongue for "Russia," I suppose.

Here is the Special Counsel's brief.