Kimberly Strassel claims to have the real story behind the revision of the Roger Stone sentencing memo:
Continue reading “WSJ: The Trials of Bill Barr”Buh-bye Barr?
What Barr is saying in this interview is obviously true. That’s a no no.
Former COS John Kelly explains it all.
First, apologies to NICK-TV (formerly Nickelodeon)
Continue reading “Former COS John Kelly explains it all.”This is what bad government regulation really looks like.
This is a long and sober article but worth the effort to read. In a nutshell it covers the long and successful history of the regulation of tailpipe emissions and the efforts of the Trump administration to roll them back.
One of the major takeaways from the story is the importance of peer-reviewed, evidence-based work in setting policy. The scientific and economic studies done by Team Trump to justify the rollbacks are junk science and were known to be such two years ago. They are full of very dubious assumptions and horrendous mathematical errors. But still the rollbacks moved forward.
Too bad. For Trump. The political hacks put in charge of policy seem not to understand that changes in government regulations have to be justified objectively and the deeply flawed analyses they based these changes on makes it unlikely that the new tailpipe regulations will survive court challenges.
I too, like President Trump, welcome
foreign interference in our election. Continue reading “I too, like President Trump, welcome”
Unmanned patrol vessel
Cool, and they could connect it to Skynet. What could go wrong?
ZeroHedge: “Intelligence Coup Of The Century”: CIA Ran Global Spy Op Using Well-Known Swiss Encryption Company
This may well be a bigger story than it seems. Imagine what a venture capitalist could make of unencrypted access to patent applications, or what a blackmail operation could do with sealed court records. An organization like the CIA could become, over time, a secret superpower on a global scale.
It’s not so far fetched.
What would YOU call it?
Claiming that release of the Vindman brothers from their positions at NSC was not retaliatory is in a word: Horse shit! (OK, 2 words).
Alexander was slated to roll out of the post in July anyway. He was a policy adviser and subject matter expert on Ukraine. It makes no sense to relieve someone of an NSC position because he was honest and concerned. And his brother, Yevegeny, was an attorney that had NOTHING to do with his brother’s testimony. If it wasn’t retaliatory, what in the hell was it?
Continue reading “What would YOU call it?”Why not just pardon him already?
The sentencing recommendation is based on Federal Sentencing Guidelines (the article does note this). Also, the sentencing judge has latitude in deviating from the guidelines, either up or down. I would not be surprised if Judge Jackson goes up because Stone refused to follow her orders during trial. The prosecution can recommend time outside of the guidelines, but they have to justify that deviation, as does the judge.
Further proof that the Trump DOJ, under the leadership of William Barr, has absolutely NO independence from the administration, as it is supposed to.
And instead of tweeting that the prosecutors, who are doing their jobs, are asking for too much time, just pardon him and be done with it already.
RT: ‘It’s about time we rely on ourselves’: Philippines tears up key military treaty with US
https://www.rt.com/news/480544-philippines-us-agreement-scrapped/
This could be positive. I favor letting the Philippines go without a fight. We can re-invest the savings in the Space Force.
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