Archive for 2018

AMUSINGLY, TRUMP’S ACTUAL ACTIONS HAVE BEEN HARSHER TOWARD PUTIN THAN EITHER OBAMA’S OR BUSH’S: Matthew Continetti: Trump and His Team Recognize Russia Is Not Trustworthy.

If Trump were really Putin’s stooge, he’d have cut Poland, Ukraine and Eastern Europe loose, choked off the fracking industry, and let Iran run amok throughout the mideast.

Related: Walter Russell Mead: Trump Isn’t Sounding Like a Russian Mole: Trump’s core global strategy is intended to destroy any illusions in Moscow that Russia is a peer competitor of Washington’s.

OPEN THREAD: BBQ: Texas? St. Louis? North Carolina? Brooklyn? Or…? Discuss amongst yourselves.

WELL, OF COURSE HE ATE PALEO, I MEAN . . . 5,300-year-old iceman’s last meal was remarkably high in fat. ” The high proportion of fat came from wild meat from ibex and red deer, cereals from einkorn and traces of toxic bracken, according to Frank Maixner of the Eurac Research Institute for Mummy Studies in Bolzano, Italty. Bracken is a genus of large ferns.”

FORMER HILLARY AIDE BRIAN FALLON PROPOSES ENEMIES LIST OF SELLOUT PROGRESSIVES TO BAN FROM ‘FUTURE DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATIONS.’

A list – likely written in ink that is colored black. But perhaps those currently out of fashion “Progressive” apostates on such a list could at least still get their ideas across by employing heretofore unknown others. A person employed in such an endeavor might be called “the front,” to coin a phrase.

As Charles Cooke quips, Fallon has “probably never heard of McCarthy. McCarthy was from Wisconsin.”