Back in the days of channel-surfing, THE CANDIDATE was one of those movies that would always compel me to stop flipping and watch to the end. R.I.P.
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Back in the days of channel-surfing, THE CANDIDATE was one of those movies that would always compel me to stop flipping and watch to the end. R.I.P.
How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months
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What, you've never heard of taking a gap year? Lots of vice presidents do it.
It was just a scheduling mixup. The interview conflicted with Vance's preexisting commitment to a year-long backpacking trip in the Outback.
Flashback: Stephen Miller on war with Iran, October 2024
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For more on John's career, read this article I published last year—the seed corn for the book now in progress.
Congratulations to John McClaughry, one of the central characters of the book I'm writing, who has been elected to his 60th consecutive term as town moderator of Kirby, Vermont.
I'll be meditating on this line for a while: "From now on, the body of the case report will specifically state that the case is fictional."
The guy who constantly announces how tough he is.
"Trump has lashed both Marco Rubio and JD Vance to the mast in his pursuit of the whale"
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No, that's just the most likely case. The worst case is much worse.
"This morning our commander...urged us to tell our troops that this was 'all part of God's divine plan' and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ."
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Today's freedom-is-slavery moment: Maryland approved a bill allowing residents to sue federal officers who violate the Constitution, and the local ICE apologists are trying to frame *that* as KGB-like.
But the best part is when I made a self-mocking remark about the passage of time, and then...oh, just watch it. You know how sometimes you would crack a joke on Twitter, then someone would reply with a dumber version of the same joke? It's the video version of that.
Here's the article he's gabbing about: reason.com/2022/12/02/n... As you read it, you'll note that I do not "write off" the movies he claims I write off, that I say nothing about product placement, that my argument about treating GIFs & TikToks as movies is not "because they're popular," etc., etc.
Oh, man; you've got to go to the 22-minute mark here: youtube.com/watch?v=ougI... It's not the single dumbest critique of anything I've written—I think that'll always be the piece at Lew Rockwell's site by a guy who thought I had called Huey Long a libertarian—but it's a strong contender for #2.
The goalposts of the Iran war have been wandering, dazed, across the football field.
You'll never guess what's gotten an "adult content" label from BlueSky. Shades of "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"...
Bossware: "...the rise of A.I., she said, has allowed employers to monitor workers in 'more predictive or granular ways'..."
The Kissinger Tapes: "For Kissinger, lies weren't a strategic tool limited to selective uses in international statecraft. They appear to have been part of his personal makeup."
"The situation is best understood in terms of *dealignment*: Several groups that were once considered a lock for Democrats have demonstrated a new willingness to cross party lines, but that doesn't mean they're becoming a reliable Republican voting bloc."
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If you're tracking the early MAGA fractures over the war, this might be the most interesting one so far. Erik Prince.
Sam Altman tweet that frames the Anthropic/Pentagon conflict as a debate "about whether we should prefer a democratically elected government or unelected private companies to have more power."
It's bad enough when GOPers call congressmen undemocratic for "obstructing" an elected president. Now we have the even-more-authoritarian sequel: people claiming it's undemocratic for private parties to negotiate terms when they contract with the federal government.
