Archive for 2020

POWER LINE: About That Laptop: “You know, if the Biden Foreign Collusion scandals were in fact hoaxes, you’d think that the evidence that’s hard to fake — you know, actual bank wire transfers — wouldn’t have appeared first, and been verified by the banks. You’d think the shady emails suggesting collusion would appear first, and the hard evidence would be hard to find.”

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Joe Biden’s Boosters Wrote His Prodigal Son’s Entire Resume. “That the 50-year-old Hunter has been trading on his Democratic father’s political influence his entire adult life raises legal questions about possible influence-peddling, government watchdogs and former federal investigators say. In addition, the more than two-decades-long pattern of nepotism casts fresh doubt on Joe Biden’s recent statements that he ‘never discussed’ business with his son, and that his activities posed ‘no conflicts of interest.’ . . . While most of the attention on Hunter has focused on his dealings in Ukraine and China when his father was in the White House, he also cashed in on cushy jobs and sweetheart deals throughout his dad’s long Senate career, records reveal.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Savannah Guthrie Was a Good Pet for Her DNC Masters During Trump Town Hall. “Using a rapid-fire, aggressive cadence that sounded more like a woman who was mad at her boyfriend for partying with his friends than a journalist, Guthrie behaved like one would expect someone from NBC News to behave towards a Republican.”

SOME INTERESTING DATA: https://www.gzeromedia.com/the-graphic-truth-two-different-pandemics-eu-vs-us-10-15-2020. “The current situation is a sharp contrast to the disparity seen over the summer, when US cases were spiking across much of the Midwest and South while European countries seemed to have kept the coronavirus (mostly) in check due to stricter adherence to social distancing and mask-wearing.” Seemed to. More charts at the link.

A friend on Facebook adds: “This shows data that I am not seeing (at least not this graphically) anywhere else. Basically, for all the trashing of US response to COVID vis-a-vis the EU, it seems that Europe is more out of control. (Sweden has managed to avoid this wave so far). I am mystified that Trump and the GOP don’t talk about these data more OR discuss the contrast between relative success of blue vs red states with COVID.”