I was trying to hint at my tentative conclusion on Mike Johnson, after watching his speech, but perhaps I should have been more direct: I think there is a good chance Johnson will be a serious disapp… (View Post)

Here's a comment I posted at Patterico's: I listened to almost all of Mike Johnson’s speech and I was struck by what was there — and what wasn’t there. Unless I missed something at the very beginning… (View Post)

In the US Congress one of the most important jobs is "oversight", checking to see whether the various parts of the federal government are doing what they should be doing, efficiently. It ge… (View Post)

Off topic, but of great interest to some of you, the distribution of pineapple pizza in the US: "So far, this analysis has ignored the proverbial pie in the ointment: pineapple. If we counted Ha… (View Post)

148grss asked: "What's the reasonable response for 5,000 civilians killed?" Let's try a parallel question for some insight: What's was the reasonable response for Nazi Germany at the end of… (View Post)