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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owmer” decides to shower persons traversing the nation’s highways and biways with random acts of politeness.

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“There Is No Plan,” One More Time 0

Thom looks at recent events with Iran and says, “This is what a war without a purpose looks like.” He also covers some ICEcapades and other miscellany.

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A Lesson Unlearnt 0

Methinks that the Trump maladministration is unaware of this distinction.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Pam Bondi: La loi, c’est moi.

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“There Is No Plan,” Reprise 0

Donald Trump riding a cruise missle above Iran saying,

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QOTD 0

Immanuel Kant:

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

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The Intellectual Property Thief 0

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The Pursuit of Knowledge 0

That’s what the Republican thought police are all about.

And, once they catch it, they will lock it up and make sure it never roams free again.

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Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0

David Ferguson:

I don’t ever want to hear that we don’t have food for children ever ever ever again. . . . Bombs cost millions of dollars and you can only use the once and suddenly the pockets are bottomless when it’s time the shoot and kill people and drop bombs on them, but when it’s time to feed children or pay teachers, we can’t do that.

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“There Is No Plan” 0

Mary Trump offers her take on why Trump mongered a war.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Writing at the Psychology Today website, Chester H. Sunde argues that the writings of Plato can help us understand today. The whole article is quite interesting, but this bit, in which Sunde lists Plato’s hierarchy of governments, caught my eye:

Plato’s five-regime model in Books VIII and IX (of the Republic–ed.) describes how constitutions deteriorate: from aristokratia (governance by reason) through timokratia (governance by spirited honor-seeking), oligarkhia (governance by wealth-appetite), demokratia (governance by undiscriminating desire), and finally tyrannis (governance by lawless appetite). Each represents a different faculty occupying what Plato calls “the psyche’s throne” (553c-d). The tyrannical constitution is the bottom of the sequence. There is nowhere lower to go.

Where are we on the scale?

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

One of those “responsible gun owners” chooses to relieve his portable phallus in a public accommodation.

A man was arrested after reportedly discharging a firearm inside the men’s restroom of a truck stop in London (Kentucky–ed.).

The London Police Department said they determined Teall had fired a single round inside the restroom of a BP Truck Stop.

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“But Mommy, He Would Have Hit Me Back” 0

That seems to be the story the Trump maladministration has settled on to justify rationalize attacking Iran.

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QOTD 0

Horatio Nelson:

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Peace Faker 0

Donald Trump behind a crawl speaking of the attack on Iran saying,

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A con artist’s co-conspirator? Philadelphia’s WPVI reports that a “new wave of smart scams, powered by artificial intelligence, is now targeting consumers every single day.”

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Two GOP Elephants.  One holds a sign reading, Band Gerrymandering.

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An Ark Typical Story 0

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Republican Thought Police 0

At Above the Law, Joe Patrice explains what “best qualified applicant” means under the Trump maladministration. A snippet:

Anyway, in 2026, the Trump administration is conducting 1L job interviews with a White House official sitting in to vet the political loyalty of each candidate.

An email sent to Liberty University School of Law students over the weekend lays out, in refreshingly unvarnished terms, what the administration’s hiring pipeline actually looks like. And it’s exactly as bad as everyone suspected:

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