by jpitney | Jul 20, 2024 | Debt, Economic Policy, Social Security
Brian Riedl nails it at Reason: Paradoxically, the faster government debt escalates toward an inevitable debt crisis, the less politicians and voters seem to care. In the 1980s and 1990s, more modest deficits dominated economic policy debates and prompted six...
by jpitney | Jul 26, 2023 | Crime
Jill Lawrence: Democratic pollster Doug Schoen and former Rep. John LeBoutillier, an anti-Trump New York Republican, just floated a full-blown “universal plea agreement” in a weekend op-ed in the Messenger: Federal and state prosecutors suspend their criminal cases...
by jpitney | Jun 9, 2023 | Crime, Foreign Policy, intelligence
The United States of America v. Donald J. Trump and Waltine Nauta: The classified documents TRUMP stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign counties; United Slates nuclear programs;...
by jpitney | May 9, 2023 | Insurrection
by jpitney | Jan 2, 2023 | Election Security, Insurrection, Public Service, Violence
From the final report of the January 6 committee (p. 300): Many of the people who refused to be pushed into manipulating election results—governors, secretaries of State, State legislators, State and local election officials, and frontline election workers just doing...
