Appeals are expensive, especially to the Supreme Court (assuming they take the case). Who’s paying for this? Also, is she currently in custody? Seems that with a 15 month sentence she’ll nearly be out before the case can go before the SCOTUS.

Here’s a middle case: I menacingly say “Give me your money or I’ll kill you!” Does the First Amendment protect my speech from an extortion charge? I doubt it.

And what about game scheduling? Today (Sunday) the Women’s World Cup at 10 am US Central time was followed by the Copa America men’s final game from South America at 2 pm and the North American Men’s Confederation Gold Cup at 8:30 pm from Chicago. Was FIFA hoping for a world soccer one day rating blitz, or trying to…

After the fall of the infamous Ceausescu regime in Romania, the state of their catastrophic orphanage system was finally exposed. It made the Victorian workhouses look like Disneyland. One element that intrigued me was that the ranks of the secret police, the dread Securitate, were exclusively filled by orphans who…

They will belong to the Inner Party.

A similar event happened recently in Chicago. A community group commissioned an elaborate mural within sight of an elevated station. Three days later the city’s Graffiti Busters program came by and powerwashed it all away. The city has since established a database of authorized murals to keep trigger happy employees…

When someone says they’re not recording you, they are actually recording you, in stereo.

She needed a stopwatch?

That treatment had actually been in development for more than 2 years, and there were fewer than 10 doses in the lab.

Here is a pretty typical university practice: according to the Sacramento Bee, California State University is raising tuition even while hiding $1.6 Billion in endowments in secret bank accounts.

Speaking of institutional problems, the idea of the Feds seizing control of state colleges sounds pretty fishy (Yes, putting the government in charge of all the money would be a pretty neat power grab.) Who gets to establish the curricula or the makeup of the faculty? Would we still have Jewish professors?

Anybody besides me think that even at their most nefarious, there are easier ways to conduct plots than to rely on murderous hillbillies and drug-addled teenage girls?

They cared about Anthony Weiner.

Wait of minute, are you claiming that conservatives are against long prison sentences for child rapists?

I’ve often thought Putin isn’t so much Stalin as he is Juan Peron. With nukes.

I found this 8 year old piece from The Russian RT network which is interesting. It soft pedals the endemic incompetence in the Soviet nuke industry, but pretty much covers the story as it actually happened. In particular it paints the scientist  Legasov as the hero of the disaster. Another point is that while the HBO…

So the inaccurate version is released by lefty outlets like the Post, Newsweek and the Beast, but it’s the fault of Fox tv.

So, was Herring black, and Payne a White Hispanic?

So, was X acting as an agent of the police or a spiritual advisor, which might make his evidence inadmissible in court? Of course, if the police have dna and video they may have enough.

I think the issue is not when the dismissal was revealed, but something else. Smollett didn’t confess faking the event. His ludicrous story still stands. I don’t see anybody here who seems to accept the story at face value. Jussie didn’t just lie to the Chicago police; he lied to us all. isn’t that worth some…