Category Archives: Fire This Time

Sweden & Finland Cleared to Join NATO; & Is Putin Now Winning In Ukraine?

Daily Mail, UK-Sweden and Finland are CLEARED to join NATO after negotiations with Turkey and ahead of Biden’s meeting with Erdogan on Wednesday By EMILY GOODIN, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER IN MADRID FOR DAILYMAIL.COM — 28 June 2022 > The leaders of Turkey, Sweden and Finland have signed a trilateral agreement that will clear the … Continue reading Sweden & Finland Cleared to Join NATO; & Is Putin Now Winning In Ukraine? →

Remember “The Stench”? More Comment & Dissent on Roe’s End

The formal dissent, jointly written by Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sotomayor, minces few words but primarily adopts a tone of deep concern or even alarm about the implications of the majority’s ruling. Probably the harshest attack on the majority comes on Page 5, where the dissenters assert:

Ukraine’s Casualty Count Is Big; it Will likely Get Much Bigger

Washington Post: The war in Ukraine is on track to be among modern history’s bloodiest It is killing far more soldiers per day than the typical war — and all signs point to protracted conflict By Paul Poast  —June 23, 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is entering its fifth month, and there is no end … Continue reading Ukraine’s Casualty Count Is Big; it Will likely Get Much Bigger →

Eloquence Exemplified In Dissent: Courting the Post-Roe Future

Excerpts from the dissent by justices: Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor. (Some emphasis has been added.) After today, young women will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had. The majority accomplishes that result without so much as considering how women have relied on the right to choose or … Continue reading Eloquence Exemplified In Dissent: Courting the Post-Roe Future →

Democracy In Peril: Progressive Billionaires to the Rescue?? (Well, Maybe . . .)

“Money,” truthfully spake the legendary California pol Jesse Unruh, “is the mother’s milk of politics.” And if money, rather than love, is All You Need (as spake, or crooned, the legendary Beatles), Democrats & their worried (“terrified” is more accurate) and beleaguered progressives ought to be breathing easier today, despite the fate of Roe. The … Continue reading Democracy In Peril: Progressive Billionaires to the Rescue?? (Well, Maybe . . .) →