Daniel Kalamaro

OK, one more and I'll stop. But the conservatives attacking the California Supreme Court, if they got in trouble, would NEVER want a lawyer like John Eastman. They wouldn't want a lawyer to lie to them and tell them that arguments and actions will succeed that will in fact fail.

I will never get tired of pointing out that Democrats have attempted many times in both congress and the Supreme Court to enact a national ban on partisan gerrymandering, literally all Republicans need to do on this is say "yes."

Bad take. EVERYONE forgets that ACB was a highly controversial pick at the time because it was to replace RBG, there were only weeks left before the election, and the Dems were demanding that no pick be made until after the voters had their chance to speak. To get ANY nominee approved McConnell needed the votes of some of the squish GOP Senators. Susan Collins was up for reelection and polls had her trailing. She was given a pass to vote against ACB. The final vote was 52-48. RBG died Sept. 18. ACB was nominated Sept. 26 -- 8 days later. The nominee HAD to be someone who would get 50 votes -- +VP. You would not have gotten a MAGA friendly fire-breathing conservative thru. Because she was a long-time law professor with only a short tenure as an Appellate Court judge, she didn't have long history of opinions to deal with. Collins and Murkowski were both on the record saying the Senate should wait until after the election. McConnell may have only gotten her vote because of the nominee. Mitt Romney was also a squish on what to do. 62% of voters said two days after RBG's death that selecting a replacement should wait until after the election -- so nominating anyone was a likely political negative only 6 weeks before the election where Trump was already behind in the polls. You can't look at ACB's nomination and confirmation in a vacuum, or judge it only based on what she has done on the Court. At the time, it is quite likely she was the best alternative if the goal was getting 50 votes.

Reminder that under Obama’s Iran deal Iran would be on a pathway by 2031 to have nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, a million attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and a trillion dollars to harden its economy.

Casting a vote is not a signal of someone’s eternal devotion. It’s just choosing the best available set of policies and personnel. That’s it.

Hegseth: "Shot down on a Friday -- Good Friday -- hidden in a cave, a crevice, all of Saturday. And rescued on Sunday. Flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter. God is good."

Socialism Never Works

When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US. France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.) Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.

Sorry Jonah. I actually sat in the room for the first half of the movie. For 24 polite years, Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama diplomatically asked NATO members to increase defense spending. For 24 years, it was one excuse after another, all focused in Western Europe on how they wish they could spend more, but their social welfare spending priorities wouldn’t let them. In other words, you the US will spend on defense and protect us. Along comes rude Donald Trump. Finally, someone made clear that if Europe kept freeloading the US was done. It took a bill in the China shop to move Europe. Diplomacy failed. Trump prevailed. That’s reality whether you or I like it. NATO self-withered after 75 years. If Spain, England, Italy and France won’t spend what’s necessary to have a real military, it’s time for something new.

$1.5 trillion for bombs, but nothing for health care.

Unfortunately, no one dedicated to the rule of law should have any interest in serving as Attorney General in this Administration.

It’s sad to watch the Bulwark crowd remain blind to the toxicity of the far left