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The sound of her own voice Laura Ingraham has a slobbering love affair with the sound of her own voice. She “asks” thousand-word, leading “questions” that leave almost no time for the answer from the guest. On 5/4//18, a guest actually asked her to stop talking over him when he was trying to read a document. Smirk She also wears an almost permanent smirk about how dumb those who disagree with her are. That is like Al Gore’s sighs, the fake theatrical laughter of Hillary and Juan Williams—an intellectually-dishonest debate tactic that would have you believe it proves the other...

Today’s Wall Street Journal column by Karl Rove has a better version of something I recently said. For several years, I have been condemning fear of nuclear war in general and EMPs in particular. A PhD with impressive credentials—Dr. Pry—says an EMP today would result in 90% of Americans dying of starvation..Rove’s column notes that this month is the 50th anniversary of Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb. Ehrlich is a tenured professor of biology at Stanford (still). Ehrlich is arguably the intellectual father of one of the greatest mass murders in history, including China’s one-child policy and sterilization of...

Comey insists he did not leak or violate any law when he put confidential information “into the public square.” Aside from the ridiculous falsity of that statement, there is the unasked question, “So it there was nothing wrong with putting that ‘into the public square,’ why didn’t you do it yourself like the stand-up guy you claim to be? Why did you tell a Columbia Law Professor to pass it to the New York Times on condition that they not identify the professor or the actual source, you?”Appoint a special [prosecutor] to investigate Comey, the Columbia law professor, Daniel RIchman,...

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