The bar for a search warrant on a former President is high. The timing suggests that the search had to do with the documents that Donald Trump inappropriately and probably illegally took with him when he left the White House. Criminal investigations take time, and it’s not clear that other investigations that we know of […]
This bit of National Review bloviation accurately reflects the mainstream media narrative surrounding the justification for raiding Mar-a-Lago: The opinion on last night’s FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago aro
This is the mass grave for victims of the 1862 Wilmington, North Carolina yellow fever epidemic. Yellow fever is a horrible disease. Before the discovery of that it was mosquito-borne, it was even mor
At over 1100 comments, the previous post is loading slowly for me. It appears that Trump didn’t turn over all the documents he took from the White House when he turned over 15 boxes earlier this year. Asha Rangappa pointed out that the presence of highly classified documents at MAL is itself a crime, but […]
Well, well, well. Oh well: Former President Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the F.B.I. had searched his Palm Beach, Fla., home and had broken open a safe — an account that, if accurate, would be
Olivia Newton-John has died. It’s hard to exaggerate what a big deal Olivia Newton-John was in pop cultural terms in the late 1970s, after the movie Grease and the accompanying soundtrack featur
Wait….are you telling me that unlike what Bruenig wants, the GOP is not going to become a social democratic party now that Roe has been overturned? Who knew! As the country processed the fall of Roe v. Wade, a few dozen GOP congressional staffers crammed into the second floor of the Monocle, a steak and […]
I’m a little surprised that nobody else has put up a post on this. As you are probably aware, the New Yorker published an excerpt today from Susan Glasser and Peter Baker’s forthcoming boo
Jane Mayer has a great piece about democratic decline in US statehouses: Click acknowledged that the story of the ten-year-old rape victim is discomfiting, adding that “we all have a visceral reacti
For those of you who don’t follow the sportsball, Julio Rodriguez is a terrific young outfielder for the Seattle Mariners. This weekend this happened: I have a book coming out next month on the nature of fandom, sporting and otherwise, and I just realized that a striking lacuna (I love that word — it’s so […]
I await the Opus Dei court deciding that this is indeed kidnapping. NEW: Starbucks is taking its union-busting to an unprecedented level. A South Carolina store manager is pressing kidnapping & as
Whatever 23-year-old cornfed Nazi tweets things out on Chuck Grassley’s account offered this to his bovine-like supporters yesterday: Cassidy (doctor from Louisiana) Collins (furrowed brow) Hawl