REASONABLE PRUDENCE

What a f*cking disaster.

Historic day.  New York Times story link. .

Salute . 

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Max Boot (military historian, foreign policy analyst, and conservative) on Republican response to Roy Moore revelations ( link ): This epi...

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From The Economist - summary of opinion piece ( link ).  For all its flaws, America has long been the greatest force for good in the world...

Link .  Someone clever managed to suppress this story until Moore's name could not be removed from the ballot.  

Link  from conservative Weekly Standard. Put [it] in perspective for a moment: The Democrats began the night just one net loss away from ...

Trump is threatening to fire his chief law enforcement officer if Sessions doesn't open an investigation into Trump's political oppo...

Link .    How is it possible for Trump to recover?  Best case scenario for him seems to be maintaining the status quo, which is not good at ...

Link . President Trump says "I'm the only one that matters" in setting U.S. foreign policy, downplaying the importance of h...

Link .  That’s not to say the media isn’t liberal or anti-Trump; I’ll grant you all that. But in a desperate effort to dismiss what Muell...

From the analytical, scholarly, objective LawFare ( link ): This is only Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s opening salvo. As opening salvo...

Please.   Link .

Nine months from inauguration, the first "criminal" shoe drops.  The next year is going to suck worse than the last one for the co...

From LawFare: " The (Ir)relevance of the Trump “Dossier ”  "One important point is sometimes lost in the discussion.  The dossie...

The reckoning within the GOP has momentum, thank goodness.  Silent or otherwise complicit Senate Republicans are now all Trump Republican...

Flake announces retirement as he denounces Trump If Flake's floor speech — and retiring Republican Sen. Bob Corker's scathing cr...

Corker continues his assault on Trump this morning. "I think the things that are happening right now that are harmful to our nation,...

Senator McCain and Senator Corker, both liberated of any reelection concerns, have opened a two-front Republican battle with Trump on terms ...

My last post here was more than 3 years ago. That post (just below) shared information about the incredible growing menace of ISIS. Just la...

Obama today said the right words. It is time for the full force of the United States to be deployed to eliminate this barbaric scourge. ...

As perfect of a dog as one could hope to meet, much less to own, has gone to dog heaven. Fenton -- who was technically my son's ...

Obviously, I haven't been blogging for a while.  Yesterday, I finally gave in and set up a Twitter account.  Time will tell if I actuall...

Richard Posner is a Reagan appointee and probably the most widely respected federal circuit court judge in the country.  His bio is here ....

I'm a social libertarian, fiscal moderate, and defense hawk. For that reason, Obama gets a "favorable" rating from me, althou...

If you look hard, you will see one of our 4 dogs, Scarlet, 30 feet up in our weeping willow tree. It is listing a bit, and she has lear...

I have never understood why people buy stock in airlines.  Every airline seems to go bankrupt (and wipe out all equity) every 10 years.  But...

For several years neighbors on the next street have allowed their dog (a Sheltie) to just roam the neighborhood, peeing and pooping in the y...

Obviously, I am an independent. Also, since being eligible to vote, my vote has been a barometer in every election. I voted Reagan (84), B...

I wonder if he will sell any tickets or draw any viewers? People who are criticizing the Jets for taking on a $5 million trade penalty in T...

Today, my son called me a "douche" for the first time. I didn't know whether to be mortified, or to ask him what took him so ...

I doubted this day would ever happen . I assumed that the assholes on the City Council would prevail and would sink this. The Legislature no...

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I saw a commercial for the University of Maryland University College . Haven't they heard the joke about the Department of Redundancy D...

A win is a win in the political perception world. Thank goodness. Only if Romney or long-shot Huntsman is the GOP nominee will I get a ch...

This is rich . At his final event Sunday, in Waterloo, Iowa, Gingrich was asked what his greatest weakness was. ...

Link . In 2012, the world's tyrants and dictators are sleeping a little less comfortably than they did a year ago. And that, in its own ...

New pictures after all of these years .

Today is " National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ." 70 years ago today, the course of history changed dramatically. Here is wha...

Romney is going to win the nomination by default. The latest GOP implosion comes from Rick Perry . Unlike Fallows, I don't feel sorry fo...

John Feinstein, one of the preeminent sports journalists of his generation, opines . If the sexual abuse and assault charges brought by a Pe...

I'm sick . These words express my thoughts very well. I waited several days to write this because my first thought was what I would do i...

Link . LACEY -- Kristoffer Domeij is an American hero. Domeij, an Army sergeant, was deployed an astounding 14 times before he was killed...

I feel a tinge of guilt for feeling more than a tinge of elation in the news of a death . OK, the guilt part has passed.

Who won't miss his pretty face? Kristof, for one . Americans are not often heroes in the Arab worl...

599 and 600 . Cool.

I am taking the plunge (again). More here .

Link . Fugitive South Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, wanted for 19 murders, was captured last night in Southern Californi...

Link . After a thorough investigation, Daily Intel has discovered that God is separately backing at least three different contenders for the...

Link . The St. Paul Pioneer Press hilariously ran the announcement of T-Paw's presidential campaign on the Obituary page this morning. ...

Story . MINNEAPOLIS -- Harmon Killebrew, the Minnesota Twins slugger known for his tape-measure home runs, has died at his home in Scott...

Last night, Liriano interrupted an otherwise relatively joyless season for the Twins with a no hitter . <a href=...

What does OBL's death mean in the big picture? I can't improve on the opinion expressed by Fareed Zakaria . [T]he truth is this is a...

Link . THIS is the moment America struck back. The killing of Osama bin Laden will have powerful strategic consequences around the world. It...

What a pleasant surprise to wake up to this morning. My 12 year old son announced this is one of the best days of his life.

More crazy . "In the meantime we can't get a f---ing school in Brooklyn," he said. He also cursed the spike in gas prices: ...

There is a lot of local negativity about the Vikings first round pick in the draft yesterday. Others disagree . I love this pick. I think h...

So far this year, luck has not been with us. 1. April 10 - Athletics 5, Twins 3 2. April 22 - Indians (rainout that is announced only as w...

Prior posts on this hero are here and here .

This morning on the elevator ride we stopped at our reception floor, and I saw "Breaking News: Trump Speaks" on the monitor. Obv...

This has shades of watching our cat wiping the floor with our little dog's butt.

Link . BENGHAZI, Libya — . . . As the fighting on the front line in eastern Libya settles into a stalemate 100 miles south of here, this...

This story about the evolution of Brazil and its relationship with the U.S. is very interesting. The conclusion: [I]f you want reasons to ...

This is an opinion that is likely to be repeated ad nauseum on this blog over the next 15 months: The GOP is dominated by goofballs. As I ...

Not from The Onion . Huffington Post bloggers who think they ought to get paid for their volunteer writing . . . I'm speechless. You ...

The most wide open "back nine on Sunday at the Masters" in a long time, maybe ever. With an hour left, 9 guys from around the wor...

I was stuck on a train trying to get through flood waters near Fargo when the Twins played the home opener, so I have to go exclusively by t...

I voted for Obama in 2008. I'm generally satisfied with the job he has done, and I think that it is more likely than not that I will vo...

Link . Via Gizmodo, I thought we’d seen the worst a few weeks ago, but no. The clip at the last link looked like a flood turning into rapids...

Nice job, Mr. President. He went all in. Gaddafi is gone no matter what it takes.

It is bewildering to try to keep up with everything in the Middle East right now, but possible change in Syria is really a bigger story tha...

If you are wondering why President Obama is not going to speak from the White House tonight when he makes his most detailed statement yet on...

Rest in peace . I had the highest respect for her. She was a historic pioneer, and she handled it with grace and intellect, and acquitted h...