by jpitney | Feb 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
by jpitney | Feb 22, 2025 | 2776, California Politics, Declaration of Independence, Local Government, Trade, Vaccine
At LAT, Steve Lopez writes of Mayor Bass: She told two local TV news outlets she wouldn’t have gone to Ghana as part of a presidential delegation on Jan. 4 if she’d been aware of the fire risk in Los Angeles. “If I had all the information I needed to have, the last...
by jpitney | Feb 21, 2025 | Presidency
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Many executive orders in recent times were issued for national security reasons during wars or in the wake of terrorist attacks. They did not always sit well with the courts. Trump’s ordersare more scattershot and cover both domestic and...
by jpitney | Feb 20, 2025 | Congress, Elections, Transparency, Violence
Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair: According to one source with direct knowledge of the events, North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about “credible death threats” when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for...
by jpitney | Feb 19, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Reagan, Russia
Ronald Reagan, 1983: It was C. S. Lewis who, in his unforgettable “Screwtape Letters,” wrote: “The greatest evil is not done now in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not even done in concentration camps and...
