Mr. Schiff’s Impeachment Opus
#Politics #U.S.A._Adam Schiff speaks in Washington, D.C, Dec. 3. Photo: brendan smialowski/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images_…
Biden, Burisma and the Obama Administration
#Politics #U.S.A.> It is my understanding that on **February 4, 2016** , the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office, under the direction of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, announced the seizure of property from Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings’ founder...…
Who Will Turn Over the 2016 Rocks?
#Politics #U.S.A._James Comey, former director of the FBI, speaks in Salzburg, Austria, June 21. Photo: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg News_…
Wie sozialistische Diktaturen verharmlost werden
#PoliticsNeulich stellte der «Tages-Anzeiger» eine provokative These auf: «Die Schweiz sollte vom Sozialismus lernen.» Natürlich, so versicherte Kulturredaktor Andreas Tobler, klinge das erst einmal «radikal bekloppt». Mit diesem Satz hätte es der Autor auch bewenden lassen können.…
Sondland’s Unimpeachable Offenses
#Politics #U.S.A._Gordon Sondland speaks during a House Intelligence Committee impeachment inquiry hearing in Washington, D.C., Nov. 20.…
The Impeachment Kangaroo
#Politics #U.S.A.President Trump took a moment from his Cabinet meeting Tuesday to call the House impeachment hearings a “).…
America’s Inner-City Cartels
#Racism #Crime #U.S.A.Headlines were seized this month by the ambush and murder of three American women and six children by drug traffickers in Mexico. Americans were naturally shocked by the brutality of the cartels. But it would be a mistake to think it doesn’t happen here.…
This Impeachment Subverts the Constitution
#Politics #U.S.A._The impeachment power is quasi-judicial and differs fundamentally from Congress’s legislative authority. The Constitution assigns “the sole power of impeachment” to the House—the full chamber, which acts by majority vote, not by a press conference called by the Speaker.…
‘Fuzzy-Profound’ Words Cause Mental Rot
What are “qualia”? I stumbled on the word recently in the Times Literary Supplement, where a review of novels by Neal Stephenson and Don DeLillo observed that both authors “are much concerned with qualia.…