Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and a former constitutional law professor, said that Mr. Paul had already tainted a prosecution by asserting he wanted to see Dr. Fauci in prison, while at the same time trying to force him to testify.

“I do have some sense of the ethics of a legislative investigation,” Mr. Raskin said. “It just would never occur to me to go around saying a witness should be in prison and then try to prevent them from invoking their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination over the very matter I’m claiming is criminal.”

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Ugh.

‘[I]nvestigators said they found two firearms in a 10-month-old child’s bedroom. They said one of the firearms was found in the closet while the other was found inside the child’s crib…

[B]oth firearms were modified consistent with Glock switch installation…

[More writing here.]

[Final sentence:]

[The suspect] already had an ankle monitor as a bond condition related to a homicide.’

Another suicide – attempted suicide? – at a gun range. Wotta shocker.

Babe, do you really have to ask?

Defund the police? Many supporters of Arday call for it. But who are you going to turn to when you’re trying to intimidate a free press?

“On the ninth floor of the extremely prestigious hospital that I was training in, we had people playing pianos for foreign dignitaries coming to get heart procedures, and then in the basement [there were] indigent New Yorkers.”

Abdul El-Sayed

And given Jason Arday’s multiple and manifest frauds, the university will inevitably fire him.

This will in turn force the hand of Simon and Schuster, which has stupidly insisted it’s bringing out his personal fantasy/memoir in a few days.

All over the place litigation from Arday is of course step three.

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UPDATE: Arday has resigned. Good career move.

New York’s Assistance in Dying law goes into effect today. The state is part of a national trend – more and more of the country perceives the humanity of legalizing (under strict conditions) the right to die, as well as the arrogance of trying to impose your religious beliefs on a secular country.

… on his campaign website. He’s running in the Dem. primary for Congress from Hawaii.

Kirill got mad the other day because somebody on a beach asked him to turn his music down, so he

threatened the man by implying he had a firearm and would shoot the victim’s wife.

A bystander intervened, leading to a physical altercation during which Basin allegedly armed himself with a knife and threatened multiple people before throwing it into the ocean. Police said the bystander recovered the knife and turned it over to responding officers.

Kirill’s threatened a lot of other people, in other venues, with fists and weapons. He has quite a history of violence.

Rather than run for office, UD suggests that Kirill, who grew up in Ukraine, take his pugilistic skills to that war-torn country. If he must explode in rage on a regular basis, make it meaningful and ding a Russian.

His bunker no longer available, America’s tiniest anti-Semite monetizes his predicament.

Professor Jason Arday’s upcoming memoir should remind the Brits that stories too good to be true are almost always too good to be true. Although Simon and Schuster is sticking with its decision to release the book in a few days, it’s increasingly clear that its powerful content has a lot of bullshit to it, just as Arday’s scholarly work seems to have a lot of plagiarism to it.

Whether it’s the Salt Path’s powerful story of overcoming, or Great and Unfortunate’s powerful story of overcoming, we don’t seem able to overcome our powerful need for stories of powerful overcoming. If we were able to overcome this need, we could see hoaxes coming.

The NYT coverage of immigration needs to evolve. Although its analysis of Ceuta acknowledges (see above) that way-lefty Denmark got way into anti-immigration all on its own, without being scared into it by the far right, the article’s headline is

EUROPE’S FAR RIGHT, ONCE MARGINAL, NOW SETS THE TONE ON SPAIN MIGRANT CRISIS

Denmark’s social democrats are close to implementing a ban on calls to prayer; they are radical on the burqa, and on hijabs in school. They are extremely vocal about the imperative of new arrivals to integrate into the culture of Denmark. Far from being far right politically, they are, in American terms, far left. And Denmark, as a sovereign country, is arguably more tone-setting on migration than perennially losing candidates like Farage and LePen. It would be wonderful if the NYT could give fear-mongering about a fascist right a break, at least as regards European immigration.

And, armed with that distinction, it wants to show you what the state can accomplish.

Lotsa people at the In-N-Out parking lot this afternoon filmed the two boys (or maybe just one) with long, long guns finally taking their weapons out for a play date. They’ve been chomping at the bit to pull the AR15s and shoot folks, and today turned out to be the day. You could just see the beginnings of facial hair on one of the tykes.

In-N-Out. Life’s like that, ain’t it? One minute you’re in a burger joint reaching for the mustard, and the next moment you’re out cold. Live each day as if thy last, as the great old hymn has it, for lo as the lord giveth gun rights just so the lord taketh away your capacity to survive a 7.62x39mm cartridge.

FB commenter: Or, as we say in America, Saturday.

… we lie on the grass and listen

To that which has no speech,

The voluble intentions of the symbols,

The ghostly celebrations of the picnic,

The secretions of insight.

… has all charges of Reflecting Pool vandalism dropped.

Botched installation by Trump crony.