The Post-Partisan Emporium

 Another take from a source that is considered to be on the "Left"... PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump & the Stormy Deep State We keep coming face-to-face with the wreckage of the Russiagate years, when the 45th  president threatened the national security apparatus for, possibly, the first time since Kennedy fired Allen Dulles as C.I.A. director in 1961. Former U.S. President Donald Trump at a “rally to protect elections” in Phoenix, July 2021. (Gage Skidmore /The Star News Network, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons) W e happened upon a video of Donald Trump the other evening that, in its first few minutes, had our socks rolling up and down. The man who was our 45 th  president and who would be our 47 th  blasts “the entire globalist neocon establishment” and “the Deep Staters chasing monsters and phantoms overseas [and] perpetually dragging us into endless wars.” Trump tells us now he wants to see a major overhaul of the Pentagon, the national-security apparatus and the intelligenc

  Fall of the House of Trumpenstein Next act in the long running play Donald Jeffries News is breaking that Donald Trump will turn himself in to New York authorities Tuesday, where he expects to be arrested. Huh? Where did this come from? Arrested for  what  exactly? Why now? And why in New York? What is the proudest and least humble man in America 2.0 doing humbling himself like this? Several questions arise here. Why is Trump traveling from Florida to New York, for the purpose of being arrested? In these cases, usually witnesses are extradited to other states. And governors can always refuse to extradite, as happened consistently during Jim Garrison’s investigation. So wouldn’t Ron DeSantis, as a loyal Republican, deny any laughable extradition order for Trump? Or would DeSantis be happy to get rid of his obnoxious rival for the presidential nomination, especially given Trump’s curious attacks on his character? So many potential plot twists. As most of you know, I concluded long ago,

 

  A (Possibly Unpopular) Null Hypothesis Revisiting flawed assumptions H 0 : SARS-CoV-2 was nasty, but not unusually so, and certainly not particularly novel. The cure was worse than the disease. It is difficult to bottle up truths forever, and it will be instructive to see whether this hypothesis is still in the running when it comes to writing the definitive history of the Covid epoch.   For context, it is helpful to consider recent history, specifically the turn of the millennium: a time of great joy and celebration (and concerns about an altogether different bug that turned out to be a flop: the Y2K bug).  While we were nervously eyeing harmless computer glitches, a virulent respiratory disease epidemic brutally killed tens of thousands of people over and above the expected winter ‘baseline’: over 81,000 souls were wiped out in England & Wales over a five-week period from just before Christmas and through January 2000. This mortality spike can be clearly seen in the ONS  graphi