Open Thread

News Of Lydia York's Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated.  She had a great day of campaigning at the Arden Fair.  Three hours spent equally between the parking lot where the visitors…

Happy Arden Fair Day! Sen. McConnell Is--Mitcher Lonely: Not even Peter Thiel will return his calls: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s grand vision for a Republican sweep in the midterm…

Trump And MAGAts Threaten Democracy, Biden Says.  Yes, they do.  Or, at least, what passes for democracy: “We are still at our core a democracy — yet history tells us…

Trump Tries His Hand At Three-Dimensional Chess, Loses At Checkers.  His call for a special master to review documents led to this photo: Those Secret and Top Secret documents are…

Trump Judge Makes New Law To Give Trump 'Special Master' To Review Classified Documents.   Pure insanity: And now the Trump-appointed judge has broken with all legal precedent, and written wholly…

Yes, The Feds Had Loads Of 'Probable Cause' To Raid Mar-A-Lago: The details contained in a search-warrant affidavit and related memo crystallize much of what was already known about the…

Don't Intellectuals Have Anything Better To Do?  'Some' argue against using the term 'progressive': But a backlash has been brewing. Some thinkers on the left question whether embracing “progressive” implies…

Student Debt Forgiveness: More Creeping Incrementalism From Biden.  Did you expect anything--more?: The Biden administration has already approved nearly $32 billion in loan forgiveness to 1.6 million people through targeted…

Could Pipelines Be Part Of The CO2 Capture Solution?  It's...complicated: Designed to increase the flow of some of the world’s dirtiest oil, the Dakota Access Pipeline became a poignant symbol…

There's No DeJoy In Gasville.  Although the rogue head of the Post Office could still insist on a modicum of gas guzzlers: The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed…

How Russian Spies Misread Ukraine And Misled the Kremlin.  Faulty intelligence is not, as it turns out, the exclusive domain of the U. S.: KYIV, Ukraine —In the final days…

Trump Goes After FBI.  Trying to attack the most culturally-conservative, white Christian, Fed agency is kinda ironic: Historically, though, the F.B.I. has been arguably the most culturally conservative and traditionally…

Why Does Mayor Mike Hate Wilmington's Citizens?  I mean, some of its citizens, the ones who don't live in the Highands.  We're taking about selective towing, aka 'takings'. The legal…