The Hall of Fire

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. Believe me, I have no love for Netanyahu, but any such warrant that isn't issued simultaneously with warr...

The Arizona Republican Party yesterday elected as its co-chairs Liz Harris, a former state representative who was expelled from her office by her colleagues (in a 46-13 vote) for having used her position to promote 2020 election conspiracy theories, and sitting state senator Jake Hoffman, who was ch...

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. Believe me, I have no love for Netanyahu, but any such warrant that isn't issued simultaneously with warra...

Four years ago yesterday, Donald Trump threatened to block states and citie swith Democratic governors and mayors from receiving Covid-19 relief funds.

Negotiations by proxy between Israel and Hamas have been ongoing. Hamas was reported to have been willing to accept the two-state solution -- something which they'd previously refused in favor of the elimination of Israel -- but don't get your hopes up, because they also said that it would be depend...

I didn't realize that NBC reporter Kelly O'Donnell is the president of the White House Correspondents' Association, whose annual gala dinner was tonight. I remember O'Donnell when she was a local reporter here in Cleveland back in the early 1990s. President Biden spoke at the event: "Of course,...

" Donald Trump Has Never Sounded Like This . No major American presidential candidate has talked like he now does at his rallies — not Richard Nixon, not George Wallace, not even Donald Trump himself." That's the headline of a new analysis in The New York Times by a reporter who attended s...

" Biden Just Saved the 40-Hour Work Week " ( The New Republic ). April 23 marked a defining moment for the Biden administration, a watershed of multiple significant actions to protect the interests of working people. We know, from Michael D. Shear of The New York Times , among others, that...

I'm not sure you and I are defining "worst" the same way.

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Edited many hours later to add: this is just the start of what I think the worst will entail.

Should President Biden hint to the Supreme Court that he's willing to play hardball to force them to do the right thing? No. Emphatically no. While I am disappointed with some of the oral argument on this case, I am far more disappointed by the response to it. Whereas I fear that nine months from n...

Should President Biden hint to the Supreme Court that he's willing to play hardball to force them to do the right thing?

Speaking (two weeks ago) of the Golan Heights: About three hours ago, Iran reportedly launched hundreds of drones in an attack on Israel. ... I've seen reports indicating that the expected target is the Golan Heights. Some observers believe this attack may be meant as a face-saving measure by Iran ....

Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, is the host of a podcast which airs three times a week on the nation's largest radio syndicator iHeartMedia. Senate rules make it pretty difficult for a senator to have an outside job. Cruz has gotten around this by "volunteering" his podcasting work ...

Donald Trump's former Attorney General Bill Barr was interviewed tonight on CNN, during which time a chyron noted that Barr "says Trump shouldn't be near the Oval Office, but says he'll vote for him in November." Barr also said that he did indeed hear Trump, as president, suggest on multip...

My post has been slow in the writing, but to elaborate on what V notes: Rhona Graff, who was Donald Trump's executive assistant, today testified that Trump's Outlook contacts, which she maintained, included an entry (including email, phone number, and two physical addresses) for Karen McDougal, the ...

This probably won't make sense to casual readers without some explanation: https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1783980253955637430 That would be South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, viewed by some as a possible running mate for Donald Trump, and rumored at one point to have been dating sometime Tru...

" US-led Gaza humanitarian aid pier comes under fire, UN officials say " ( Army Times ). While no group has claimed responsibility for this mortar attack on the U.S.-led international effort constructing a pier to deliver food into Gaza, a "Hamas official told the Associated Press on ...

From the BBC "Two British men in their early 20s have been charged with burning down Ukrainian businesses in England on behalf of Russian intelligence."

In an interview this morning, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said:

(1) He has turned down multiple requests from Donald Trump's campaign to be Trump's running mate this year.

(2) He thinks that abortion medication hasn't been studied enough to be deemed safe for use.

Yesterday Politico reported that two sources told them the reason the New York Times ran so many stories about President Biden's age following the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur's report, and the reason the Times in general has taken an oddly harsh perspective of Biden, is that the publisher,...