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Donny, the NRA and the Florida school massacre
What I love especially about Harper’s Weekly Review is how it manages to pick up facts from news stories — some of which I’ve already forgotten or never knew — and compact them in a way that punches up the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged AR-15s, arming teachers, Donald Trump, Donald Trump fears, Florida school massacre, Harper's Weekly Review, NRA, Second Amendment, socialists, Trump and guns, US armed forces
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Oh foo. We have to define defamation again. AGAIN
Now that Trump has, once again, in a tiresome lifetime of such tiresome threatened lawsuits, threatened a lawsuit for defamation against Michael Wolff and his publisher, Holt, I guess it’s time to return to the legal definition of defamation, i.e., … Continue reading
Posted in Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged actual malice, anti-SLAPP, defamation, defamation definition, defamation lawsuits, Donald Trump, Fire and Fury, libel definition, libel lawsuits, Michael Woolf, Public Participation Project, SLAPP
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Part 1. Triple Cross: an eerie encounter with Russian spies.
I’m not sure what’s wrong (or right) with me lately but over the past few years I find I am re-reading beloved books rather than loving or even liking new ones. I’m an addict of mysteries/thrillers/police procedurals, so have been … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged American intelligence, Ben Macintyre, British intelligence, British MI6, Carter Page, CIA, David Cornwell, Donald Maclean, Donald Trump, George Smiley, Guy Burgess, Jared Kushner, John le Carre, Kim Philby, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Russian moles, Russian spies, Trump
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