Archive for 2025

IN WHICH THE AP TRIES TO DRUM UP SYMPATHY FOR TERRORISTS WHO ABSOLUTELY DESERVED TO GET BLOWN UP: Portraits of survivors of Israel’s pager attack on Hezbollah last year.

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Perhaps still not as shameful as what the New York Times did last week, though.

THE WNBA MUST BE PROTECTED FROM MOCKERY:

2026 PREVIEW: Former Tennessee Football Coach Enters Georgia Senate Race As Republican. “[Derek] Dooley, 57, the son of famed University of Georgia football coach Vince Dooley, obtained his law degree from the University of Georgia and briefly practiced law before turning to football, where he became head coach at Louisiana Tech, then Tennessee before serving as an assistant coach with the Dallas Cowboys, the University of Missouri, the New York Giants and the University of Alabama.”

GERRYMANDER HARDER!

This is a level of desperation rarely seen, a governor strongly implying that she’ll keep gerrymandering until the Republicans have fewer than zero seats.

Maybe I shouldn’t joke. If there’s anyone able to rig negative representation, it’s Democrats.

LOCK’EM UP: Florida Preparing Second Immigration Detention Center In Addition To Alligator Alcatraz.

The second facility in north Florida has already been identified as Camp Blanding. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has, for weeks, fielded questions on the possibility of transforming Camp Blanding into a second immigration detention center in the Sunshine State but has consistently said that they were waiting until Alligator Alcatraz reaches full capacity.

“I’m willing to do Blanding once Alligator Alcatraz is filled, and so DHS has started moving in a significant number of people. I think you’re going to — and they’re starting to deport people from there too,” DeSantis said last month. “Remember, this is not the Ritz Carlton, ok?”

For that, you have to go to the UK: Inside migrant hotel in one of London’s poshest postcode with chandeliers and whirlpools.

ORANGE JUMPSUIT FOR SHIFTY? PJ Media published an item today that raises the question of Adam Schiff’s potential criminal liability for playing games with mortage applications.  Most notably, the story mentions Sen. Cornyn’s proposed bill:

“Sen. John Cornyn has introduced the Law Enforcement Tools to Interdict Troubling Investments in Abodes—or the LETITIA Act, pointedly named after the New York AG herself. But this isn’t just a symbolic jab. The bill represents a serious move to expand criminal liability and, more importantly, stiffen penalties for public officials who abuse their positions for personal gain—specifically through shady dealings like mortgage or tax fraud.”

I’m not a criminal defense lawyer, and as much as I’d love to see that weasel in the pokey, I have to wonder out loud whether applying it to that disgusting slime ball  would be an ex post facto application. I suppose if the fraud is ongoing, that might solve the issue, but (again, not being a criminal defense lawyer) if the law contains a “scienter” requirement (that’s “knowingly” for laypeople) it would seem that he can’t be held liable for crimes that weren’t really crimes at the time he fudged his mortage app.

Of course, it seems to me there’s pretty good evidence rising to probable cause that he’s already broken laws such as mortgage fraud and wire fraud, but I leave that to sharper minds…

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: This Ain’t Bill and Hillary Clinton’s First Subpoena Rodeo. “Here’s the thing, though: these two have been slipping out of legal nooses for so long that it’s become almost reflexive for them. They’ve been on a roll ever since they got Susan McDougal to opt for some extended jail time rather than drop a dime on Slick Willy in front of a grand jury.”

THEY CAN SAY WHAT THEY WANT, THEIR WORDS DON’T MATTER ANYMORE: