Monthly Archives: April 2020
April 29, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Tara Reade’s allegations that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her back in 1993 continue to heat up to a slow boil, despite the major media’s best attempts to suppress or ignore them. No doubt the media are trying to “flatten the curve” of news stories to prevent them from becoming a pandemic that fatally infects the Biden campaign. But Biden’s weak pre-existing conditions mean that it might not take much exposure
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April 29, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
In two earlier posts, I identified some of baseball’s all-time great baseball lineups. However, I have not yet considered the dead-ball era, which I define as the period from 1900 (when the American League was founded) until 1921, when run totals started soaring and guys other than Babe Ruth started hitting 20 home runs or more in a season. In this post, I identify three notable lineups from the dead-ball
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April 29, 2020 — Scott Johnson
What we have here is failure to communicate. When Sidney Powell took over the representation of General Flynn from his attorneys at Covington & Burling, the law firm omitted to turn over an additional 17,500 pages it has now found in its Flynn file. Undercover Huber picks up the story in the linked tweets below. Here’s the cover page of the filing pic.twitter.com/bNOMbu3SvD — Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) April 28, 2020
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April 29, 2020 — Scott Johnson
The total of deaths attributed by the authorities to COVID-19 in Minnesota reached 301 yesterday, up by 15 from the previous day’s total. The two days’ data represent a fall in the daily death toll from the previous week. I hope we are on the down slope. We should have a better idea with the release of today’s data later this morning. One had to tune in to yesterday’s daily
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April 29, 2020 — Scott Johnson
It is not easy to understand the issues in the Flynn case. It takes some attention to detail, both political and legal. National Review has posted an excerpt of Andrew McCarthy’s Ball of Collusion on the case. McCarthy explains in his introduction to it: “The excerpt contends that that there was no basis in fact or law for the investigation of General Michael Flynn, an argument I began making when
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April 29, 2020 — Scott Johnson
Why a statewide shutdown to stem what appears to be a nursing home crisis in Minnesota? That is the question I addressed to Minnesota Commissioner of Health Jan Malcolm following the daily state briefing on Monday. For some reason, Malcolm’s crew omitted me from Tuesday’s briefing. They have not responded to my query why they did so. Maybe it was something I asked. Here is the question I addressed to
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April 28, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
It has been clear to me from beginning that enemies of President Trump and General Flynn induced him to make the statements that form the basis of criminal charges against him. In common parlance, we might call this entrapment. It’s not clear, though, that the government’s conduct rises to the level of entrapment in the sense required to establish a legal defense. This statement by the Department of Justice sets
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April 28, 2020 — John Hinderaker
Please join your fellow VIPs for our next VIP Live event, Thursday evening. The event will begin at 7 p.m. Central time (5 Pacific, 8 Eastern). If you are a VIP member, you will get an email with a link to a live address where you can watch the event and submit your own comments and questions. Some have called the present moment the era of coronavirus; others say it
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April 28, 2020 — John Hinderaker
I take it that Joe Biden has regularly been putting out videos from the basement of his home. I haven’t seen much interest in them expressed, except to the extent that many have commented on his inability to construct a sentence or express a thought without looking awkwardly down at his notes. Today was a special treat, as he hosted a “townhall” with Hillary Clinton. Of course, that isn’t exactly
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April 28, 2020 — Steven Hayward
The environmentalist freakout about Michael Moore’s new film “Planet of the Humans” continues. The Guardian reports today about demands that the “dangerous” film be “taken down” and suppressed: Planet of the Humans has provoked a furious reaction from scientists and campaigners, however, who have called for it be taken down. Films for Action, an online library of videos, temporarily took down the film after describing it as “full of misinformation”,
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April 28, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
It’s frustrating how little we know about the Wuhan coronavirus months after its spread began. We don’t even know with great confidence the approximate number of people who have died from it. It’s possible to die from the virus without having been tested. It’s also possible to test positive and die due to something else. John has presented evidence that total deaths in the U.S. are down year-to-date from last
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April 28, 2020 — John Hinderaker
COVID-19 is setting records for press hysteria and draconian government action. For the first time in our history–for that matter, human history, as far as I know–the healthy are being quarantined, with catastrophic consequences for hundreds of millions of lives, our health care system, our economy, and much else. For what? Is this year’s coronavirus really a crisis of unprecedented proportions, as we are constantly told? The numbers don’t seem
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April 28, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
Readers probably recall that Italy was the first country to impose a nationwide lockdown in response to the Wuhan coronavirus. It did so on March 9. Now, finally, Italy is set gradually to reopen its economy. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Italian government has “announced a timetable for reopening its economy and daily life beginning on May 4.” ABC News says that reopening has already commenced on a
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April 28, 2020 — John Hinderaker
Affordable housing is a current mantra of the Left. Housing is too expensive, liberals tell us, so we need more and more subsidies. Never mind that, far from addressing the underlying causes of high prices, subsidies generally make the thing subsidized more expensive. The Twin Cities present an interesting case, because housing here is more costly than anywhere else in the Midwest or most other regions of the country. Why
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April 28, 2020 — Scott Johnson
This past Friday afternoon, the time when the government traditionally seeks to bury bad news, interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Timothy Shea delivered what must be exculpatory evidence in the Flynn case to Sidney Powell (counsel for General Flynn). Deputized by Attorney General Barr, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Jeff Jensen had turned up the documents in his review of the government’s
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April 28, 2020 — Scott Johnson
John posted the compelling video of Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi in “A report from the front lines” over the weekend in two parts. At the time John posted the videos, they had more than 2,000,000 views. The doctors decried California’s COVID-19 related lockdown in particular on medical and economic grounds. Part 1 carried the heart of the doctors’ remarks in about 50 minutes. Drs. Erickson and Massihi are
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April 28, 2020 — Scott Johnson
The number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 fell to 14, from 23 the day before. It was the first such fall in a week. We can only hope that it isn’t a one-off. The total deaths attributed to the virus as of early this morning is 286. In yesterday’s daily briefing, Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm provided an update on the data. Twelve of the 14 new decedents
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