The Hall of Fire

Some levity from South America:

Arizona Supreme Court rules that a near-total abortion ban from 1864 is enforceable Three weeks later, Arizona's House and Senate have both voted to repeal the 1864 abortion ban. It was a close vote in both chambers (16-14 in the Senate today), with most Republicans voting to leave the 19th century...

If you were once arrested, but the arrest was then expunged, are you required to answer yes when completing a legal document that asks if you were ever arrested? I think the answer should be no, because to me an expungement means the arrest never existed, and I think I'd hold that position consisten...

While I certainly see your point, on the whole I think the analogy does not hold. [... various interesting arguments undercutting my Dresden/Poland analogy ...] Let me try a different analogy. If Jack stabs five of his neighbors to death, including the husband and kids of Sally who lives across the...

I did not know that the Holocaust Museum in D.C., in its Arabic language translations, refers to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis as the "Warsaw Intifada."

Donald Trump today said that on "Day One of the Trump presidency" he will be "restoring the travel ban" and "suspending refugee admissions".

(Video at link. It's from the Biden campaign. I hope they blast that clip all over Dearborn, Michigan.)

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:48 pm The Daily Mail today says that Israel fears that the International Criminal Court is going to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel's actions in Gaza.

More on this:

Donald Trump said last night that "We have to let Israel complete their war on terror," adding, "You have to get the job done. It's a horrible job to do, but they have to respond. When they do, when there's an attack, a sneak attack, like on October 7th, that's so violent, and such ha...

Could have been worse:



Edited to add: "infrastruckersureparauhee."

Having read Cohen's book, it would not surprise me to find out that he was the one who threatened Daniels. Oh, he's definitely the type to threaten folks, but perhaps not physically. There was laughter in the courtroom yesterday when Keith Davidson, the attorney who represented Karen McDougal and S...

President Biden has announced "$6.1 billion in student debt cancellation for 317,000 borrowers who attended the Art Institutes," which were a collection of somewhat shady for-profit universities across the that existed from 1969 to 2023.

Sen. Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, says: "I didn't eat my dog. I didn't shoot my dog. I loved my dog and my dog loved me."

Given Russia's past attempts at and continuing interest in assassinating President Zelenskyy, I'm not sure the AP's sources should have revealed this information in advance, but: " Ukraine’s Zelenskyy preparing to visit DC on Wednesday ." This would be President Zelenskyy's first travel o...

Haaretz reports's that Israel's Finance Ministers, Bezalel Smotrich, yesterday called for the "total annihilation" of Gaza.

[ Tweet by Manu Raju: "New margin in House: 217-213, meaning Johnson can only lose one GOP vote on any party-line vote for the time being."] As that article notes, the margin will shift back to Republicans following three upcoming special elections in red districts, including that of form...

:( [ Tweet from Rick Hasen: "Three-judge court, breaking along party lines, says Louisiana impermissibly created a second Black congressional district."] So the Republicans who control Louisiana's state legislature, faced with the likelihood that a court would force the creation of a seco...

As noted above, Donald Trump endorsed J.D. Vance and not Vance's Trumpier rival, Josh Mandel, to win the nomination to the next U.S. senator from Ohio. But tonight at a rally in Nebraska, as Trump mentioned the names of various candidates he's endorsed around the country, he said that in Ohio he ha...

Nearly 50% of voters don't know about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s general opposition to vaccines. When voters are informed about RFK's views, Republican support for him goes up and Democratic support for him drops.

We heard about the "What have we done?" line in the prosecutors' opening statement last week, but the "Oh my god" is new. - - - - - - - - - - I see that the testimony today of attorney/tabloid go-between Keith Davidson mentioned the first time the story of Stormy Daniels's fling ...

NBC reports that Donald Trump again appears to have fallen asleep during his trial today.