- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil learns, from those in a position to know, the impact of Mr. Trump on national security. I have a few thoughts about that.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post does the research and screams at us about corruption in this administration. I wrote about that as well.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, engages in intelligent speculation about the raid on Donald Trump’s lawyer. One conclusion: there is much more involved than a porn star payoff.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has his own speculation, fueled largely by reports that lawyer Cohen had a habit of recording all his conversations. Ruh roh.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz says that his seeming obsession with Donald Trump is not really about Donald Trump.
- NOJO at Stinque has a few fair but tough words for those of our generation, his and mine, who vote to get ripped off. There is hope, isn’t there? We will eventually pass the torch to our betters. Right?
- The passing of the torch isn’t entirely good. @bjork55 at Bjork Report discovers that young folks have a shocking ignorance of one of the most tragic periods in modern history. I suppose there is an inevitability to it. As one generation fades into the next, and then into the next after that, the murderous injustice of current events fades into dusty books.
- Jonathan Bernstein watches Paul Ryan achieve his one consistent objective as he leaves office: ducking blame for failing.
- Infidel753 maps out the path to ending the decade with the demolition of the Republican party.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass seems bit taken aback. The governor of Kentucky is now accusing protesting teachers of causing child rape. Sounds like the head of state government is irritated at those who strike and then dare exercise their right to peaceably assemble.
- My friend, conservative T. Paine at Saving Common Sense, argues that leftists are violating free speech rights by failing to provide sufficient college platforms to conservatives. In fact, some students are pressuring college administrators not to invite anti-immigrant activists for campus appearances.
I’m old, I guess. In my primitive high school classes, we were taught that free speech is sufficiently protected by not jailing citizens for airing even the most eccentric views. Are conservatives being imprisoned? I’ve got to start keeping up.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, atheist Bruce goes to his previous life as a preacher to defend those of us who are still Christians from dismissal by non-Christians as insane, simply because of our crazy beliefs. He also explains freedom of speech with more mental acuity than even my friend T. Paine.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has figured out the exact way Democrats should use the Comey/Trump fight. Don’t.
- The Onion reports national confusion as James Comey devotes his entire book to past allegations of Martha Stewart insider trading.
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from the Brookings Institution, explaining how the nature and volume of Trump lies corrode democracy.
One more thing: France, Britain, and the United States sent missiles into Syria to destroy a few air fields and chemical supply dumps. President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis threatened the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Unless the regime refrains from further chemical attacks on Syrian citizens, the Trump administration will continue the Moral Equivalent Of War (M.E.O.W.).