What’s wrong and right with the world; Trump indictment edition.
Ham sandwich on the Manhattan court docket
The indictment for Donald Trump, which came down on Thursday 30 March, interrupts our regularly scheduled programming.
At the moment we’re hearing the number “34 counts,” Continue reading “TOC Ready Room 30 March 2023: Trump; Saving Twitter; Missing piece from J6”
What’s wrong and right with the world.
There are always too many interesting new developments to try to cram very many of them into a single Ready Room. This edition, like all the rest, will leave a number of promising nuggets on the cutting-room floor.
But here are a couple of standouts from this week’s haul so far.
“China mole” info from think-tank officer sheds light on DOJ stance on Bidens in 2019
Miranda Devine has a great piece at New York Post on Wednesday about the explosive information from a Washington, D.C. think-tank principal, Gal Luft, that in a period prior to early 2019, “Hunter Biden had an FBI mole named ‘One-Eye’ who tipped off his Chinese business partners that they were under investigation.” Continue reading “TOC Ready Room 23 March 2023: China, moles, and economic mischief (the non-TikTok kind)”
What’s wrong and right with the world.
Back from a Christmas “break,” and I’m still tired of politics. What a silly method of dealing with human affairs.
A few random updates for the TOC squadron.
Readers probably won’t be surprised to learn that in December, the House Democrats adopted a rule that the J6 Committee materials they were going to send to the National Archives must be sequestered from release for 30 years.
It’s now being reported, Continue reading “TOC Ready Room 7 Jan 2023: Border disorder, Project Censorship, Church redux”
As readers have probably guessed, I’ve been taking a bit of a Christmas holiday and not posting much recently. (As an update from several weeks ago, I continue to work on an extensive article about Chinese land holdings in the U.S., and some implications for national security. That won’t be out until the New Year at this point.)
This Ready Room will be a little grab-bag of reflections on a few topics, the first of which is the Arizona judge’s ruling against gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s lawsuit over the conduct of the 2022 general election in Maricopa County. The evidence of irregularities is extensive, and a strong case was made that failures of preparation and operation on election day, including machines and back-up planning, ended up disenfranchising numerous voters. In the opinion of legal experts who were tracking the lawsuit and the court filings by Kari Lake, the evidence also showed an unmistakable bias in the political demographics affected by the irregularities, which were overwhelmingly Republican precincts.
I want to focus on just one aspect of the issue, however. Continue reading “TOC Ready Room 28 December 2022: Grab bag – AZ election lawsuit; George Santos; illegal migrants”
What’s wrong and right with the world.
A phenomenon has been developing in recent weeks that should raise our level of concern about the nature of public discourse, especially as brokered by the media.
It’s more than what the media, per se, are doing, however. It has to do with “news” that purports to be coming from government, but is backed by no actual evidence, and is unverifiable in terms of whether it came from government at all, much less could be held accountable in any way.
We’ll have some examples below that clarify what I’m talking about. To start with, however, a tweet exchange for orientation to the topic: Continue reading “TOC Ready Room 16 December 2022: Censorship, gas lights, and Russia-Iran missile/drone adventure”
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