The Hall of Fire

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has confirmed reporting that the United States last week paused a planned shipment of 3,500 bombs to Israel in an effort to get Israel to back down from plans to launch a ground invasion into the city of Rafah at least until such time as Israel has a solid plan...

Anthony Kreis is right to say that this is largely Fani Willis's fault because she didn't take the case seriously enough to, at the very least, consider when starting a romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she hired just what the defense might do with that situation. I am beyond angry a...

In a 2012 deposition, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said , "I have cognitive problems, clearly. I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me." He identified the cause of these issues as mercury poisoning and, I'm not making this up and apparently neither was he...

I think this is correct : "Imagine how the media would react if in 2012 Barack Obama was on trial for election campaign fraud involving a sex with a porn star. Literally every op-ed in America would be calling for him to drop out." So what changed in the past dozen years that made the medi...

Good question here : is Rep. Chip Roy (Republican of Texas) calling for Barron Trump,* Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Donald Trump Jr., all of them the anchor-baby children of foreign-born American residents, to be deported? Tiffany's plot to seize power lives on! https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1787...

With 89% of the voted counted in Indiana's Republican primary, Donald Trump is beating Nikki Haley, who dropped out two months ago, 78%-22%. Haley has 126,000 votes so far in that very red state. - - - - - - - - - But in national polls, Trump continues to hold a one-point lead , on average, over Pre...

From Politico : "The Biden admin has indefinitely delayed its report on whether Israel has violated humanitarian law in Gaza. The State Department was supposed to issue the report today. If it had concluded there was a violation, the U.S. would be expected to stop sending Israel military aid.&...

When I was a kid back in the mid-1980s, my family drove from Ohio down to Florida to visit relatives in Miami, and one thing I remember was my dad and stepmom being baffled by the local news being on TV by 4 p.m. -- here in Cleveland, it didn't start until 6 p.m. -- and more notably, that it was jus...

It's surely inappropriate for attorney Ty Cobb to be commenting (not for the first time) on criminal proceedings pertaining his former client, Donald Trump (although I guess Cobb's client was the President not the person), even on cases like this one where Cobb has not played a role, and what's more...

I saw that Judge Merchan had asked Donald Trump's lawyers, after a midday break, if they had spoken with their client. Now we know what that was about : the judge could hear Trump cursing under his breath during Stormy Daniels's testimony. https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/178798143009555691...

Here's my problem with this argument from Bradley Moss that he and other commenters keep making about Donald Trump's various criminal proceedings: OK, I am going to politely suggest some people on this hellsite take a deep breath for a second. Nothing in Judge Cannon's order is remotely grounds for ...

Well maybe Wittes will be as wrong about Stormy Daniels as he was about Bill Barr.

Lisa Rubin notes some common themes the cross-examination of Daniels shares with that of E. Jean Carroll in an earlier Trump trial.

That said, it does appear that Daniels put a darker spin on the encounter by emphasizing those points -- again, all previously known -- that could be read to imply that Trump coerced her into sleeping with him. And that shouldn't have been a surprise to defense counsel either, since, as I now see, ...

At least she didn't opine about the size of Trump's appendages. Before she came out to testify, it was agreed between the judge and prosecution that there would be no details about "genitalia." (No mention of light sabers, though.) In arguing for a mistrial, the defense complained that St...

About once a year, some friends and I rent canoes and go for a morning paddle near the mouths of the Cuyahoga River or the Rocky River and out into Lake Erie. One one such occasion, I pointed to a power boat docked along the Rocky River and asked my friends what field they thought the boat's owner w...

Based on reports on Twitter, there's not much new in Stormy Daniels's testimony for someone who has followed Donald Trump's presidential career, but there's probably a segment of the public who will only learn now, for example, that before sleeping with her, Trump, age 60, compared Daniels, age 27, ...

I see that Donald Trump posted on his social media account this morning that he had "just recently been told who the witness" today would be, although he didn't name Stormy Daniels, and that it was "unprecedented" that there was "no time for lawyers to prepare." A half-...

The Federal Trade Commission has released evidence which suggests that, as one commentator summarizes the findings, "an oil price-fixing conspiracy caused 27% of all inflation increases in 2021." Specifically, some U.S. fracking companies seem to have colluded with OPEC to keep oil prices ...

Driving to band practice this evening, I heard on NPR that the deal to which Hamas agreed is not really the same deal that Israel had previously agreed to.

A Democratic candidate for Georgia's state supreme court, the former Congressman John Barrow, " filed a federal lawsuit Monday to block the state’s judicial watchdog agency from seeking misconduct charges against him for centering his campaign for a seat on the Georgia Supreme Court on a pledge...