The Hall of Fire

Last week, President Biden announced that he was working with Congress to have Kenya designated a "major non-NATO ally" of the United States -- Kenya would be the first sub-Saharan nation to be so designated -- and he met with President William Ruto, who has led Kenya since 2022 (after hav...

Even before this story, there were already serious questions about Royce White, the Republican candidate for Senate from Minnesota: " Women Have Gotten 'Too Mouthy,' Says This Republican Senate Candidate ." He seems to have misused funds in his previous campaign, spending them for travel a...

The May issue of Vanity Fair features a new story by Gabriel Sherman titled "Running for His Life." The subject is Donald Trump. The message is that a second Trump term would be much more dangerous for the country that the first term was -- and that was plenty bad. The online version has a...

The Libertarian Party ballot is now on its fifth round . Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also spoke to the convention, albeit remotely, and he submitted his name for consideration -- but he was eliminated in the first round with just 19 votes -- about 2% of the 900+ total. Despite speaking to booing Libertari...

Nearly four and a half years later, retired general Kenneth McKenzie, who led U.S. Central Command from 2019 to 2022, has written a memoir that includes a detailed description of the strike on Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in January 2020, excerpted in The Atlantic . It's well worth reading. What ...

Strictly speaking, Trump slurs ("it's time to be [unintelligble]") before he glitches on the word that starts with "liber-" in this clip : https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1794538437426499727 And is it a glitch or just a misstatement? This time he doesn't do the accordion-hands...

Trump still might have gained a few votes, but I wonder if video of the boos will offset that. Meanwhile, President Biden spoke at the graduation of U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, and his speech got much less coverage. https://twitter.com/AHaschi/status/1794573410078806279 To be fair...

Today, a Russian bomb hit a supermarket in Kharkiv, with more than 200 people inside. At least two deaths reported so far, but the death toll is sure to rise. Meanwhile, the US continues to insist that American weapons cannot be used to destroy targets inside Russia, from where these bombs are laun...

As I was saying...

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 4:29 am Donald Trump spoke at the Libertarian Party convention today. It was contentious: many Libertarians don't care for him.

Donald Trump spoke at the Libertarian Party convention today. It was contentious: many Libertarians don't care for him. But he may have won some of them to his side by promising to pardon Ross Ulbricht, who is serving two life sentences plus 40 years after being convicted by a jury in 2015 of multip...

David Frum points out that if FBI agents had been acting in accordance with Donald Trump's own statements during the George Floyd protests, they would have shot him.

A report from Lviv, in Ukraine's west (far from the fighting), captures something of what life is like there now:



More at the link. The images from the new military cemetery at the end get pretty overwhelming.

Here's a different kind of Supreme Court story. Justice Sotomayor describes crying after some Supreme Court decisions "'There are days that I've come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried,' Sotomayor told the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard...

Often there are no good overhead pictures of these events, which lets Trump's people inflate the numbers. (It's also true that there are seldom shots from above of Biden's events, but Biden doesn't make a thing of boasting about attedance.) Trump's rally in the Bronx was not quite as well attended a...

"In a phone call with President Biden, Egyptian president el-Sisi agrees to resume delivery of aid trucks to Gaza through Israel."

The "deliveries were halted two weeks ago in protest of Israel's takeover of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing."

Thursday was the busiest day ever at Atlanta's Hartsville-Jackson Airport -- already the busiest airport not only in the United States but in the world -- as the previous record of 104,174 passengers set on February 4, 2019 (right after that year's Super Bowl, held in Atlanta) -- was exceeded by mor...

Further on this point: Let me explain at more length why Donald Trump is at least pretending to be committing a very serious crime. Donald Trump is publicly saying that he and Vladimir Putin have an understanding that Putin will hold an American citizen hostage until an agreed-upon time. Just think ...

Matt Schlapp, on whose behalf an insurance company paid $480,000 to a man who alleged (as others have) that Schlapp groped him, has a message for America:



No, wait, here it is:

The judge in the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat with the gold bars stashed in his house, has blocked prosecutors from using some evidence that Menendez was using his office to further the interest of the Egyptian agents who bribed him, because the Constitution's "speech and...

" Women Have Gotten 'Too Mouthy,' Says This Republican Senate Candidate ." The candidate, Royce White of Minnesota, has had a strange and meandering career in the twelve years since he was drafted as a professional basketball player in the NBA. He quickly rose to fame for championing menta...