Posts by Bill Palmer

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Herschel Walker’s political handlers have known from the start that he had strong name recognition and local goodwill in Georgia due to his football past, and that he was also an incoherently addled lunatic. Accordingly, they’ve used a strategy of keeping Walker away from the public eye as much as possible, in the hope his…

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President Joe Biden has a tendency to let people think he’s not working on anything in particular, only to turn around and roll out a fully completed and thoroughly constructed gambit that he’s been quietly working on all along. Biden did it once again on Thursday, when he announced he was pardoning everyone who’s ever…

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It took Donald Trump long enough, but weeks after the Court of Appeals took the classified documents away from his pet judge and allowed the DOJ to resume building its indictment against him, Trump has finally figured out that he’s lost. We know this because Trump now finds himself reduced to trying a desperation move…

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When the news broke that Donald Trump’s attorney Evan Corcoran had drafted a statement for the DOJ falsely claiming that there were no more classified documents in Mar-a-Lago, and that Trump’s other attorney Christina Bobb had signed it, it immediately became clear that both lawyers were facing legal trouble. After all, the DOJ went into…

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Around here we make a point of not automatically quoting Donald Trump every time he speaks, because most of the outrageous things he’s said since leaving office have been a desperate attempt at getting attention and fending off his own growing irrelevance. But now and then Trump says something that gives away where he thinks…

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Ginni Thomas reportedly testified for three and a half hours yesterday. Pleading the fifth to every question wouldn’t have taken nearly that long, so she must have given a number of substantive answers. Score one for the January 6th Committee for being savvy enough to pull off this unlikely feat. “But she probably just lied…

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Why is Vladimir Putin giving Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden? There’s a tendency to assume that a villain like Putin knows what he’s doing, always has a plan, and is a step ahead of the rest of us – and that used to be true. But Putin’s moves these days are nonsensical and self defeating.…

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