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Category: Comment Sandbox

  • [Lots of stuff happening – members of Congress shot on baseball diamond, public housing fire in London, old basketball player negotiating with young idiot in NK, Dylan accused of plagiarism, … .  What’s the world coming to, or is it already there?  gjr]

  • [Well, there you have it.  Former FBI director Comey is a politician for all seasons.  Where else can you find a man who can deliver to both sides of a terminally divided Washington a smorgasbord version of events that can concurrently bring pleasure if not outright glee to both sides of the aisle?  Everyone found…

  • [Looks like President Trump nailed it in Europe when he took fellow NATO members to task about their defense spending.  Besides Merkel’s epiphany, other countries are starting to realize that they’re pretty much incapable of doing sh!t when comes to defending themselves.  Now that's presidential leadership.  More here.  gjr]

  • [I accede to the semi-popular demand that RR should reinstate the Sandbox.  So once more the repository for the sundry, the specious, and the surreptitiously studied sobriquets is open for business.  And once more I invite my learned readers to embrace Churchill in their rhetoric, no matter how sweet or sour they choose to serve…

  • George Rebane When RR introduced the Sandbox forum to its readers back in 2014 (here) I don’t think any of us knew how popular it would quickly become.  The purpose of the Sandbox was to give RR readers a place to comment on topics of their current interest upon which I had not yet posted…

  • [I and several readers have noticed that mud-slinging bouts in the sandbox occur in waves, but recently these have come at an increasing pace and with longer durations.  The resulting comment streams are difficult to parse for those readers who don't give a crap about the kindergarten tit-for-tat antics; it just makes it harder for…

  • [Lamestream's cynical silence on the publicly proclaimed and peddled influence of the Mexican government and its US agents – La Raza and MALDEF - of the 2016 election is deafening.  And, believe it or not, there are still lefties galore who think it that Russia's unidentified influence should be our real focus on foreign intervention in…

  • [It pained me to read that legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano was suspended by Fox News, and I hope that he will soon be reinstated.  But I take heart that FN is an outlet that allows its senior correspondents to air items they consider important and true, and then hold them responsible for any subsequent…

  • ["Which is more important: Building more dams – or protecting the lives of millions of folks living below the dams we already have?" asks Darrell Berkheimer in today's Union (here). That's an OR question?!  The gentleman attempts to explain California's dams to us and cites the horrible danger they all pose because "high hazard" dams abound…

  • [Does anyone remember the last time that the Congressional Budget Office, or for that matter the WH’s Office of Management and Budget, got any projection, estimate, or prediction right?  And by ‘right’ I mean literally ‘close enough for government work’.  Now people are hyperventilating that Trumpcare may go forward without anyone knowing its vaunted ‘CBO…