A significant amount of US military power has been on the move over this past week, including several B-2 strategic bombers which have landed at the US military base in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean just over 2,000 miles southeast of Iran. According to press reports this is the most significant B-2 presence on the Island in nearly half a decade. In addition flight trackers are showing increased activity by at least nine KC-135R refueling aircraft in the region. Several C-17 cargo planes have also […]
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • This Is the Land of Wolves Now: Masked agents snatching people off the street. Government officials using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains. (The Bulwark) • The Scammer’s Manual: How to Launder Money and Get Away With It: Documents and insiders reveal how one of the world’s major money laundering networks operates. (New York Times) • IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for […]
Alex Shieh, a student reporter for The Brown Spectator, is being investigated by Brown University. His alleged crime? Asking administrators about their jobs. On March 18, Shieh emailed each of Brown’s 3,805 non-instructional full-time staff members, asking them to describe the tasks they performed in the past week. The university began its investigation two days later. With Brown running on a $46 million deficit and annual tuition and fees set to increase to a combined $93,064 this July, […]
Great interview last night with Musk and members of the DOGE team. A good mix of concrete examples (40% of calls to Social Security customer service are crooks trying to reset electronic deposits from the intended recipient to the crook) with a steady return to the overall goal of cutting waste and fraud. The $1B target of first year cost savings is too low IMHO. DOGE has yet to start with Defense. Social Security is just getting started. […]
Last week, I posted an excerpt of Paul Clement’s arguments as to why the Executive Order targeting the WilmerHale law firm violates the Constitution, and said they struck me as quite correct. (The analysis is similar, I think, with regard to the other Executive Orders targeting law firms.) In response, a reader asked: With all the hub-bub now around Big Law firms being attacked, it might be nice to see a piece harkening back to the way numerous […]
MM Comment: One of the most persistent objections when presenting the overwhelming evidence that viruses do not exist or cause a particular disease is for someone to immediately ask the following question, expecting to shut the conversation down completely; Well then, What Causes (It)? Please watch at least the first 9 minutes this video, HERE. You will love the examples he gives to make this crystal clear. Highly Recommended For a deeper dive into the scholarship please also […]
According to law enforcement officials, a woman told police that, at that time, Munyon served her a summons for being intoxicated at the casino and he took her to his police cruiser. From there, officials said, the woman told investigators that Munyon transported her to a parking lot in Atlantic City where he sexually assaulted her. submitted by /u/WilHunting2 [link] [comments]
My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • America Has Never Been Wealthier. Here’s Why It Doesn’t Feel That Way. A surge in U.S. wealth has been driven by stock and home values. But the gains are concentrated at the top, leaving others in a sour economic mood. (New York Times) • Economic Tailwinds and Headwinds: The US economy is resistant to policy mistakes, and I’m still not currently on recession watch. However, I’m not sanguine. (Calculated Risk) • […]