The law is a living, breathing thing. Cases of first impression call for novel interpretation of both case law and statutes and frequently lead to new laws and new nomenclature. Jacob Chansley aka the QAnon Shaman, hired  attorney Albert...
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it   George Santayana I have used this quote so often I can't even count, although I have also used the Winston Churchill paraphrase. Donald Trump tends to have the tendency...
From time to time there is a real disaster with the name Arizona attached. In the last century the battleship Arizona was tragically bombed at Pearl Harbor and in this century Arizona is the site of the ludicrous QAnon-sponsored...
The fickle finger of fate seems to be flipping off Rudy Giuliani these days. The Former Guy isn't paying for limos anymore and don't ask about the $20K per day legal fees that Trump was allegedly willing to pay...
History may not repeat itself but it does rhyme. Dan Rather is 89 years young and so he remembers a lot of things and people that even those of us who are not spring chickens don't have a conscious...
Yes, I know, my mind works in sick and twisted ways. But that's because in all of my years as a total political junkie, I've seen some pretty sick and twisted shit. And for better or worse, you can't...
Poor Kevin McCarthy. It must be very taxing to try to remember which lie you're telling at any given moment and why. Today McCarthy managed to off his political nemesis Liz Cheney -- although there are those who say...
Every day that goes by I see Lin Wood getting nuttier and nuttier and his claims more and more outlandish. His current mission impossible is to get elected the chair of the South Carolina GOP. You may recall that...
It's conventional wisdom that extraordinary claims call for extraordinary evidence -- but in Mike Lindell's fevered brain, extraordinary claims ARE extraordinary evidence, requiring only that You Believe. In any event, extraordinary evidence is just exactly what Lindell is promising...
We know that Donald Trump loves the poorly educated, because he told us so. And we know that the GOP is currently fundraising off of everybody that they can find on the left hand side of the bell shaped...

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