In a recent thread some commenters had a hard time explaining what constitutes an actual real estate scandal. It will help to contrast John Solomon’s Edwards turd with a story like this: Last March, Sue Ellen Wooldridge, then the head of the Justice Department’s environmental division, bought a $1 million vacation home with Don R. …
Hacktacular
John Solomon is 0-for-1 at his new gig at the Washington Post, having spun an utterly ordinary house sale by John Edwards (trial lawyer!) into a breathless page 1 story. Even by Solomon standards the story was surprisingly weak – Edwards sold the house at less than the market price value, it would have been …
The Kerry Silliness Continues
Kerry has now apologized for something he didn’t really say, and surprise of surprises, it still isn’t good enough for some, as Drudge is splashing this AP story by Tim’s bestest friend, John Solomon, titled “Kerry’s ’72 Army Comments Mirror Latest“: Kerry apologized Wednesday for the 2006 campaign trail gaffe that some took as suggesting …
Bob Ney’s Abramoff Troubles Grow
You can file this under stuff that we more or less knew already, but the NYT has a brief preview of indictments-to-come: Testimony in the trial of a former White House budget aide accused of lying about his contacts with the lobbyist Jack Abramoff is expected to result in new scrutiny of Representative Bob Ney, …
Late Night Open Thread: Is There Nothing the Billionaires Don’t Want to Ruin?
The Winklevoss twins were ready to rock! It was June 2022, and the billionaire entrepreneurs roared into Asbury Park in a 45-foot Prevost tour bus that announced, in huge letters, that MARS JUNCTION had arrived to bust the house down. From CREEM 002:https://t.co/TrP5qDbfqc — CREEM (@creemmag) December 24, 2022 Nothing gold can stay. From Sam …
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Mike Flynn’s Nuclear Adventure – The Companies
Since elements of the story first appeared, I have been intrigued by the idea that Michael Flynn wanted to sell nuclear reactors to the Saudis. Too much of it doesn’t make sense and still doesn’t. A few things I’ve wondered about: Flynn has no experience with nuclear reactors. Why nuclear reactors? There are a …
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Don’t Want to Be an American Idiot
Is anyone surprised that one of the most doltish-looking dolts involved in Bloomberg’s Trump focus group is saying she was fooled. Jessica DeBurro was prominently featured in a video of the focus group posted to Bloomberg Politics’ website that showed 12 Granite State residents fawning over Trump’s everyman appeal and vast wealth. Bloomberg Politics described …