Month: August 2017

Trump Has Been Lying About Sater and Russia

I wrote most comprehensively about Felix Sater in a piece we published in February called Trump’s SoHo Project, the Mob, and Russian Intelligence and in an April piece entitled Trump, Felix Sater, and the FBI. I also mentioned...

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Four Days and Four Nights

(or maybe five or six) Reference Points: June 2001 (June 5-June 10 – TX weather event) Tropical Storm Allison The storm dropped heavy rainfall along its path, peaking at over 40 inches (1,000 mm) in Texas. The worst...

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Trump Waddles Towards the Thresher Blades

One week ago, I wrote a piece called September Will Be a Meat Grinder in which I explained (once again) that the Republicans will need to, among other things, avoid a government shutdown, raise the borrowing limit, and pass a...

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Open Thread

We’ve got a birthday to celebrate here at the cabin today and considering the biblical aspects of what’s happening in southeast Texas, I don’t feel like getting political. So, just use this thread to discuss...

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Labour grows up?

At last the British Labour party has decided to do what oppositions are supposed to do and put clear blue water between its policy on Brexit and that of the Tories: Labour is committing itself to continued UK membership of the...

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