The NYTimes reporting of the Durham investigation, that evolved into a Special Counsel probe, describes corrupt, if not criminal activity by William Barr and the "straight-shooter" John Durham.

For starters, the ethical violations present the basis for the suspension/removal of their licenses to practice. And, Merrick Garland needs to pick-up the pieces of likely crimes. If Garland is fearful of charging the top banana, maybe he will be up for, a least, a gimlet's eye on these lower bananas who have disgraced the DOJ. And, the country.

The Senate should empanel a select committee to delve into the Trump/Barr/Durham ersatz investigation--perhaps the most egregious of them all. And, Durham is still at it, just now completing his Special Counsel's report.

Barr and Durham, Opus Dei well-wishers, readily shared the opinion that the Russian investigation stemmed from a conspiracy of Intel and FBI agencies. Having come up empty-handed on that front, they turned to their tried and true: Hillary and George Soros.  Again, empty handed.

These two pals hardly kept an arms-length as might we expected with a Special Counsel (meeting regularly over "sips of scotch" and dinners as well as traveling together to Europe). But, lo and behold, they did find something: their Italian contacts provided a salient and credible tip of Trump and financial crimes.

 So, what to do?  Nothing, that is what. Durham's scope was enlarged to include this tip.  However, that hot tip ran silent.  No indication was ever made, other than that a crime was being pursued, which was allowed to be misinterpreted as a crime embedded somewhere in the Russian investigation.  No clarification was offered, in keeping, apparently, with the Opus Dei tenet of "divine deception".

A Senate investigation is needed to keep this scandal in the public eye, and to pursue the possible connections with Charles McGonnigal, the FBI counterintel agent on Putin's friend, Oleg Deripaska's payroll ($25,000/month).

 Such an investigation may not be as flashy as  Gym Jordan's and MTGreen's investigation of Hunter's laptop, but it needs to be done.

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Mrs. Roberts made $Millions in commissions recruiting for law firms, some of which had business before the Supreme Court.

Mr. Price, a Boston lawyer, states that litigants deserve to know if households are receiving six-figure payments from law firms.

As a first order of business, New College's Board members (appointed last month by DeSantis) fired President Patricia Okker. The former Republican House Speaker was installed as Board chair until he can take over as interim president in March.

The second order of business was to begin de-wokifying: abolishing diversity, equity, and inclusion along with a new extremist and fanatical shift--modeling public institutions after grand private institutions, such as Liberty University. (I hear their pool boy department is excellent)>

Of course, the state's flagship institution, the University of Florida, is now under the presidential leadership of former US Senator, Ben Sasse. With Sasse, DeSantis' pick, he has a foot-hold at U of F. to enable his fascist vision.

Michelle Goldberg in her NYTimes column of today states, for example, the Biden is a great president, and, accordingly, should not run again.   Her earlier hope that Biden not run again was when    President Biden was having difficulties with passing key legislation because Manchin and Sinema. But, even, better now that things are going well.

That dumba$$, Peter Baker,  also of the NYTimes, "worried"in his column yesterday about Vice President Harris. Apparently not as effective as Pence when he headed up the Covid Task Force, the effort Republicans rewarded him with a noose.

Jennifer Rubin, in her WaPo column, "worried" that Kamala Harris made a mistake not staying in the senate. Seemingly, a part of a campaign to cause Democrats to worry, omitting the value Kamala had in presenting a ticket that defeated TFG, for which the Democrats and country should be eternally grateful.

Significant snowfalls were also recorded in San Bernardino, Redlands, Fontana, Ontario and Altadena / La Crescenta. The L.A. area as a whole has also received 7-10" of rain.

California as a whole is on track toward its wettest winter since 1969, which is welcome news after several years of severe drought.

Elder Daughter and son-in-law are understandably very distressed, and so I'm going to fly to Honolulu on Thursday if only to provide moral support. (Honestly, I hope I can do more than that.) My wife will fly over after she's done teaching school on Friday.

We never had to deal with anything like that when the girls were little, so I have no idea what's going through their heads right now. But like I told my daughter and son-in-law, we'll figure this out together, at least to the point where they'll have an idea what they need to do and what to expect going forward.

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Former chief of staff for the secretary of Homeland Security, Miles Taylor, thinks that Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) is heavily involved with the plotting around the Jan. 6 attack. It was reported Tuesday that a "block" was placed on Perry's phone, which was seized by the FBI. The block is temporary until the federal appeals court decides whether the FBI should be able to possess it. A judge already agreed to the warrant for the phone previously.

Mr. Dodaro seemed unsure about what was meant by "CRT", so Greene explained: "It's a racist curriculum used to teach children that somehow their white skin is not equal to black skin and other things."

Mr. Dodaro did not know how much is spent on CRT, but he did know that there are provisions that federal funds are generally supposed to be used for the school.

`At any age': Donald Trump pushes the GOP towards targeting transgender adults

"President Trump recognizes that the tide may be turning politically on this issue," said Jay W. Richards, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation who researches "gender ideology" and its impact on federal law. "I honestly think that he's trying to get out in front of other likely candidates for the Republican nomination."

Anthony Huber was killed in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during unrest sparked when police shot a black man in the back.

The lawsuit claims Rittenhouse, 17 at the time, conspired with officers to cause harm to protesters.

Koch Network to Move Against Trump
February 5, 2023 at 7:36 am EST By Taegan Goddard 165 Comments

"The donor network created by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch is preparing to get involved in the presidential primaries in 2024, with the aim of turning `the page on the past' in a thinly veiled rebuke of former President Donald Trump," the New York Times reports.

"The network, which consists of an array of political and advocacy groups backed by hundreds of ultrawealthy conservatives, has been among the most influential forces in American politics over the past 15 years, spending nearly $500 million supporting Republican candidates and conservative policies in the 2020 election cycle alone. But it has never before supported candidates in presidential primaries."

Washington Post: "The return of one of the biggest spenders in American politics to the presidential primary field poses a direct challenge to the former president's comeback bid."

Wall Street Journal: "Mr. Trump has been critical of the Kochs, branding them globalists and a `total joke,' within a GOP he infused with more populist and isolationist policies."

I suggest skipping this, seeing it for free when it comes to the streamers - it has a great cast as most of his krap does, and reading the book it's based on.  A Cabin at the End of the World.

This review outlines why it's should be skipped and contains a link to the book.

Knock at the Cabin' Review - Biblical Tale Elicits Great Performances Within an Anemic Apocalypse

Spoiler alert:. It's NOT a "biblical tale".  Shama Lama Ding Dong makes it one.

Judge Says Federal Right to Abortion May Still Exist

February 6, 2023 at 3:44 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments

"A federal judge in Washington, D.C., suggested Monday that there may be a constitutional right to abortion baked into the 13th Amendment -- an area she said went unexplored by the Supreme Court in its momentous decision last year overturning Roe v. Wade," Politico reports.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly "noted that there is some legal scholarship suggesting that the 13th Amendment -- which was ratified at the end of the Civil War and sought to ban slavery and `involuntary servitude' -- provides just such a right."

"She is asking the parties in the criminal case, which involves charges of blocking access to abortion clinics, to present arguments by mid-March."

Clearly linking Covid vaccines to the devil.

God, I wish I was making that up.

Grammys performance slammed: `Sponsored by Pfizer'

Remember I told you to watch out for her.  She is dangerous.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has turned over hundreds and hundreds of private emails, text messages and diary entries to reporter McKay Coppins for a book coming in October -- including real-time communications among many of the most powerful figures in American politics, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: This volume of disclosure is unheard of for a major sitting officeholder -- a trove historians dream of but rarely get. The emails and journal pages span Romney's 2012 campaign as the Republican presidential nominee.

"Romney: A Reckoning," to be published Oct. 24, "offers Romney's lively and at times devastating take on nearly every major political figure of the last 25 years," a publishing source tells me.

The book "will also show Romney himself reckoning with what he considers his party's slide toward authoritarianism and what role he may have played in empowering the extreme forces within the GOP."

Pro-Life Conservatives Embrace a New Kind of Welfare

February 10, 2023 at 5:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 124 Comments

New York Times: "A key priority for this new network of conservative thinkers is for the federal government to send parents cash monthly for each child, a sea change from decades of Republican thinking on family policy."

"They hope the cash could encourage people to have more children, and allow more parents to stay home full- or part-time when their children are young

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and his aides are facing major blowback after the controversial lawmaker invited a constituent who is facing murder charges in the state of Michigan to lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the opening of a GOP-led House Judiciary Committee hearing.

`Unidentified Object' Shot Down Over Canada
February 11, 2023 at 5:59 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 16 Comments

"An American fighter jet, acting on the orders of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, shot down another unidentified flying object on Saturday, Canadian and American officials said, in the latest twist of the ongoing drama playing out over the skies of North America," the New York Times reports.

9As with the object that President Biden ordered shot down on Friday, officials said they had yet to determine just what was struck with a missile over the Yukon Territory."

"He was sentenced to 67 years in prison for a crime that was not even committed by anyone," said Landusky. "When first responders showed up, there were no footprints in the snow. It had recently snowed. There was a dog barking right next door when they pulled up, the neighbors said no dog had barked in the last hour. There were no tire tracks, so it made sense to the investigating officers that this didn't even happen. When they went in and checked the house out, they wrote in their report that it was too selective for them."

I have to say as a totally impartial judge, I know nothing about the evidence against him, he seems like a pretty good witness.

Longtime Trump Backers Flock to DeSantis Event
February 25, 2023 at 1:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 163 Comments

"The group of Ron DeSantis' top donors and supporters gathering in Palm Beach, Fla., this weekend includes some longtime backers of former President Donald Trump," Politico reports.

"The Florida governor's three-day retreat at the Four Seasons hotel -- just four miles down the road from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate -- kicked off Friday evening with a cocktail reception and dinner for the approximately 150 attendees. The event, billed as a celebration of the "Florida blueprint," precedes a likely DeSantis presidential bid that would pit him against Trump. And the roster of people there shows that the governor is appealing to major GOP figures who've previously aligned themselves with the former president."

A judge ordered Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) to turn over more than 2,000 phone records after ruling that they are not shielded under the Constitution, according to newly unsealed court documents

Trump Lawyers Say Georgia Probe Has Been Compromised
February 26, 2023 at 3:44 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 96 Comments

Defense attorneys for Donald Trump told CBS News that they have "lost 100% confidence" in the Georgia investigation into efforts by Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The lawyers added that if the former president were indicted, "we will absolutely fight anything tooth and nail."

House GOP Moving to Expand Access to January 6 Video
February 28, 2023 at 1:06 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 53 Comments

"House Republicans are moving to provide defendants in Jan. 6-related cases access to thousands of hours of internal Capitol security footage, a move that could influence many of the ongoing prosecutions stemming from 2021's violent attack," Politico reports.