The warrant Derek Hines obtained for Hunter Biden's content in December 2023 included the laptop itself.

A recent Joe Biden appointee just imposed the maximum possible sentence on the guy who stole Trump's tax returns to leak to the press.

I screwed up thinking this was about bi-coastal championships with Baltimore on the east coast and San Francisco on the west coast, forgetting about Detroit on the northern fresh water coast. This is an open thread.

We’ve been fogged in here in Chicago for the last five days, after a week of brutally cold weather: perfect for reading. And a good time, too. My family's go-to Christmas gifts are books, and I have a bunch of new ones, so here’s some of what I’ve been reading.

Current and recent books

1. The Tyranny of the…

In testimony before Congress, Hunter Biden's former gallerist George Bergès debunked a key premise of the manufactured scandal about payments from art collectors that Matt Viser started back in 2021, that the paintings were being sold for up to $500,000. Yet Viser didn't tell his readers that in his report on Bergès' testimony.