- @bjork55 at Bjork Report is careful to redact the Nunes memo while keeping the essential purpose in a few words.
- Although it is partly based on dangerous disclosures of real life classified information, Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post is unimpressed with the Nunes fantasy memo.
- Since it turns out the Nunes memo is nothing, Dave Dubya at Freedom Rants releases the real thing with the Dubya Memo.
- nojo at Stinque notices a steadily growing hum. It is the non-legitimacy of those who administer our current government.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors references new polling that confirms the tectonic shift. The party of law and order now hates law and order. It strikes me as an ironic, but natural, mutation of a political party that has become history’s largest obstruction of justice conspiracy.
- The Borowitz Report has published a verified video showing Donald Trump lying under oath.
- Anyone catch my President’s SOTU? I got into about 45 seconds of what seemed like dishwater before I had to switch to an ancient episode of I-know-not-what. He was doing a Trump impression of a hostage forced to read a random note. Jonathan Bernstein says that, by making the speech an hour of nothing, Trump missed an opportunity.
- T. Paine, at Saving Common Sense, has some fun at our expense. Wants to know if we would prefer to pay old “Obama rates” this year. During the Obama years, most folks were not aware their taxes had been cut by Obama. Or that the deficit had been slashed. Or that the Trump cut will be replaced by a hike in a few years, except for corporations and the very wealthy. Or that folks like my friend T. Paine were once quite angry about the deficit. In fact, my friend once had a running total of the national debt on his site. Through some odd coincidence, my friend’s national debt presentation disappeared once Obama was out of office.
- Green Eagle researches the research and discovers just how high the Republican deficit will be.
- PZ Myers brings some perspective to the Muslim conspiracy to infiltrate the GOP.
- Meanwhile, here in Missouri, our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit visits, at least in writing, and hears our Attorney General blame today’s sex traffic on the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives produces the same old tired word salad in defense of the electoral college. It is a safeguard against majoritarianism. It is “intended to balance the power between the state and federal governments.” Actually the stated purpose, according to accounts of debates at the time, was to preserve slavery. I have had some thoughts on the topic.
- Joe Hagstrom at MadMikesAmerica says Mike Pence will never be President. He lacks the single quality Republicans have come to value most.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass finds a Kentucky Chief of Police who directly orders his officers to shoot pot smoking kids, but only if said pot smokers are black.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil seems less than convinced by a religious conservative urging followers to never accept flu vaccines.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a New Zealand study proving your chances of getting into medical school drops substantially if your application uses apostrophes incorrectly.
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from ABC News, casting a net into the flow of President Trump’s SOTU and coming up with a massive catch.
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