Will the Real Conservatives Please Stay Where You Are?
Davey over at Theopolitical has a very sharp post up analyzing the epic (can I call it epic yet?) debate between Conor and Dan (well moderated by Br. Scott) here at the League over...
Chris Dierkes
/// June 17, 2009
Davey over at Theopolitical has a very sharp post up analyzing the epic (can I call it epic yet?) debate between Conor and Dan (well moderated by Br. Scott) here at the League over...
Freddie
/// June 17, 2009
So I wrote this piece last year for Culture11. I wanted to link to it in response to the tedious Sandra Tsing Loh, because the piece says all I want to say about her...
Freddie
/// June 17, 2009
Reading Reihan’s post on the costs of health care reform today gave me what has become a very familiar feeling. Reihan’s post is well reasoned and written. I agree with him that health care...
Chris Dierkes
/// June 17, 2009
A reader writes Andrew: In their desire for Ahmadinejad to succeed, today’s neocons are in complete opposition to Reagan’s attitude towards the Soviet Union. Actually I would say that applies to a bunch (if...
Erik Kain
/// June 17, 2009
“If Nixon could go to China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, which was a hundred times more brutal and appalling than anything we have seen in Iran over the last few days,...
Mark of New Jersey
/// June 17, 2009
I wish that I had something worthwhile to say about Ta-Nahisi Coates’ reaction to completing McPherson’s “Battle Cry of Freedom.” Unfortunately, I can’t imagine there’s much to be said that wouldn’t detract from it. ...
Erik Kain
/// June 17, 2009
I wondered about this the other day. While I commend Obama’s restraint and am glad that he is not, as the neoconservatives are clamoring for, actually meddling in Iranian affairs, it did seem, as...
Erik Kain
/// June 17, 2009
I suppose the difference for me between the adopting of these two technologies – Twitter and Kindle – neither of which I use (though we do have a Twitter account tied to this blog),...
Erik Kain
/// June 17, 2009
Conor revisits the talk-radio conundrum at his new Atlantic digs. I was thinking about this the other day actually. (surprise!) I sometimes try to watch a bit of Hannity or listen to some Limbaugh...
Erik Kain
/// June 17, 2009
So something that’s been on my mind lately is just how much I loathe sitting at a desk all the time. I really do enjoy writing, but in order for me to attain real...
From CNN Business:
New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.
Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.
(Featured image is "Some birds hanging out at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City" by iirraa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Comment →In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.
The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.
(Featured image is "A radio tracking device on a Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) at the Cotswold Falconry Centre" by Anguskirk and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Comment →From Twitter Safety:
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
(Featured image is "Free Bird" by Ennev and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Comment →From DFW's CBS:
DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Chief Judge Barbara Lynn of the Northern District of Texas has reversed a previous ruling of the Court that had dismissed all claims against the City of Dallas in the murder of Botham Jean.
The federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Dallas is now allowed to proceed once an amended lawsuit is filed.
We discussed Amber Guyger getting indicted here.
We discussed her trial here.
(Featured image is Botham Jean from The Botham Jean Foundation/Facebook)
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