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There are two kinds of villains in TV mystery shows. The plausibly sympathetic type and the smirking creep. Peter Strzok had rehearsed all the lines of the plausibly sympathetic type. The character that James Comey is trying to play. A man so upright that he combs his hair every hour. But Strzok couldn’t help that…

The FBI’s Peter Strzok had clearly been studying the work of his superior, Comey. His testimony was a stew of self-righteous preening. Caught red-handed, Strzok insisted that he’s a patriot who had been victimized by libels. And if you criticize him, you’re working for Moscow. It was a deeply silly and thoroughly offensive performance that…

It started with Confederate officers. It moved on to George Washington and Columbus. Now the intersectional lynch mob is coming for the cowboys. “The world needs more cowboys,” the University of Wyoming says in a new marketing slogan. But apparently not everyone agrees. The slogan has drawn backlash from critics, including faculty members and Native…

Every other Muslim terrorist or killer in Europe has his actions blamed on mental illness or drug use. This just continues the pattern. I wrote about the murder of Sarah Halimi last year. Sarah Lucy Halimi was thrown out of the window of the third floor Paris apartment while she begged her Muslim killer to…

‘Member when Stormy Daniels was going to bring down Trump? The Washington Post does. “Stormy Daniels — not Robert Mueller — might spell Trump’s doom” WaPo, Mar 17, 2018. Time Magazine dedicated a cover to the premise. (The cover now survives only as a pro-Trump meme.) And Stormy’s lawyer, fresh off trying to launch a…

Senator Flake, the second flakiest senator from Arizona, has dropped his threat to block Trump’s judicial nominees because he got a vote on a meaningless resolution opposing tariffs. Flake’s fake victory seems incredibly pointless. He was threatening to block Republican judicial nominees, thereby potentially letting Democrats steal judicial seats, to get a non-binding vote that…

Anyone can run for public office. And the Republicans have taken heat over a few fringe Neo-Nazis running on the GOP line. And Republicans responded by clearly disavowing them. Meanwhile the Democrats continue to support radical bigots like these. A Democratic candidate for the California State Assembly said Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians…