The hard freeze is imminent and the next Ukrainian offensive will follow not long after Gwynne Dyer · Columnist — Jan. 3, 2023 It’s still unseasonably warm in Ukraine, but there’s a chance of a hard freeze next weekend. By mid-month, it should be reliably below zero almost all the time: the ground will be … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Ukraine Is Moving Toward A Winter Offensive
[NOTE: I use Wikipedia almost every day. It’s perhaps the finest flower of the rapidly-disappearing era of the free (as in built for honest public service rather than profit or propaganda) internet. But the Saudi rulers know how to deal with such unwelcome ideas & their advocates: if bribery doesn’t suffice (as in golf), jail, … Continue reading Breaking: Is Nothing Sacred? Saudis Jail Two Wikipedia Editors
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: In World Wars I and Il, it was common for naval vessels to burn oil and create thick clouds of smoke they could hide behind. The smoke threw off the gunnery of their adversaries. Those gunners may not have been able to target the smoke-screened ships with precision, but they sure as … Continue reading The Supreme Court’s Five-Alarm Fire–“The Scheme”: Conclusion
[NOTE: Henry Olsen is a very conservative columnist; I would typically not look to him for political counsel. Even so,there’s one politician Olsen likely understands much better than I could ever hope to, namely: Mike Pence.
Sheldon Whitehouse, in The Scheme: Beyond protecting polluters, the [Supreme Court’s] Roberts Five have weakened antitrust protections, shielded corporate executives from shareholder suits, protected drug manufacturers from state tort laws, taken away fair pay protections from entire categories of workers, restricted class actions that redress low-dollar mass frauds (like adding a small wrongful charge … Continue reading The Scheme: The “Captured” Supreme Court Is Stealing Our Right to Jury Trials