Alan Zweibel

You mean like the Marxists Neil Gorsuch, John Roberts, and Amy Barrett Browning?

The top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. has decided to table efforts to try to indict six Democratic lawmakers for posting a video urging military members not to follow orders they believe are illegal, sources told CBS News on Tuesday. The decision by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to end the case comes after a grand jury in Washington, D.C. earlier this month refused to return an indictment, CBS News previously reported. It was not yet clear whether the Justice Department could still explore pursuing other venues for the case, one of the sources cautioned. It was unlikely, another source said. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pirro-drops-effort-to-indict-6-democratic-lawmakers-video/ Just because the DOJ couldn't even get one juror to vote to indict?

Why Trump’s Section 122 Tariffs Are Illegal In Section 122, Congress endowed the president with narrow, temporary authority to impose tariffs “to deal with large and serious United States balance-of-payments deficits” (emphasis added). What Trump is complaining about — something he insists is a crisis but is not — is the balance of trade, not of payments. The United States does not have an overall balance of payments deficit, much less a large and serious one. https://archive.ph/r4Xdf#selection-505.0-505.43 Again, Trump Completely Misreads the Law But the president misreads the statute. The provision is not about trade imbalances. It is about financial imbalances — in particular ones that threaten financial stability. https://archive.ph/eSODo

What's really a shame is that you don't understand how the judiciary works. What do you think it is that judges do?

For a year, federal judges grappling with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda have looked askance at his administration, warning of potential or, in rarer cases, outright violations of their orders. But in recent weeks, that drumbeat of subtle alarm has metastasized into a full-blown clarion call by judges across the country, who are now openly castigating what they say are systematic legal and constitutional abuses by the administration. “ICE is not a law unto itself,” Judge Patrick Schiltz, the chief judge on Minnesota’s federal bench, said Wednesday in a ruling describing staggering defiance by ICE to judges’ orders — particularly ones requiring the release of detained immigrants. He estimated, conservatively, that the agency had violated court orders by Minnesota judges 96 times this month alone. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/30/ice-immigration-court-orders-00757894

A former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement instructor testified that the agency has scaled back its training, leaving recruits unprepared. To meet demand for recruits for enforcement surges, ICE has stopped failing trainees on practical exams and shifted closed-book multiple-choice exams to open-book, according to Ryan Schwank, who taught at the agency’s academy in Georgia until he resigned earlier this month. “ICE made the program shorter, and they removed so many essential parts that what remains is a dangerous husk,” Schwank told a congressional hearing Monday organized by Democrats... Schwank told Congress that ICE recruits who made glaring mistakes in their final training exercises were still allowed to graduate, including trainees who accidentally drew their firearms on each other, pulled guns on detainees without justification, and pepper-sprayed bystanders without cause during simulated exercises. “No matter how badly a cadet does at those practical exams, no matter how many mistakes they make, no matter how egregiously they violate the law during a practical, we graduate them,” Schwank said. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/former-instructor-calls-ice-officer-training-a-dangerous-husk-b864000a?utm_source=chatgpt.com Why is this not surprising?

Training a ‘Dangerous Husk’ The whistleblower tells Congress that the agency’s recruits are never failed on practical exams A former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement instructor testified that the agency has scaled back its training, leaving recruits unprepared. To meet demand for recruits for enforcement surges, ICE has stopped failing trainees on practical exams and shifted closed-book multiple-choice exams to open-book, according to Ryan Schwank, who taught at the agency’s academy in Georgia until he resigned earlier this month. “ICE made the program shorter, and they removed so many essential parts that what remains is a dangerous husk,” Schwank told a congressional hearing Monday organized by Democrats. https://archive.ph/ewkIg https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/former-instructor-calls-ice-officer-training-a-dangerous-husk-b864000a?mod=mhp Does anybody find this surprising rather than explanatory?

Because the cartels were about to launch an invasion of the United States?

The Pentagon has received no orders to deploy any U.S. Navy vessels to Greenland, according to U.S. officials, despite President Trump’s claim that a hospital ship is “on its way” to the self-governing Danish territory. The U.S. has two hospital ships, the East Coast-based USNS Comfort and the West Coast-based USNS Mercy, which are designed as floating medical treatment facilities.. .The Comfort is undergoing repairs that are expected to be completed in April, while the Mercy is in the middle of a one-year maintenance period that began last July. https://archive.ph/P9pMH#selection-863.11-877.22

I have no doubt the spending is dangerously outpacing revenue. My point has always been that these folks who claimed to be so alarmed about the national debt seem to be completely blind to the issue of taxation. I'm sure that you aren't one of them and you recognize the role that reversing tax cuts needs to play in restoring the US government's financial soundness.

Thank you spokesman for the world Olympic audience which, as we know, consists primarily of Americans.

Binance Fired Staff Who Flagged $1 Billion Moving to Sanctioned Iran Entities Weeks after President Trump granted a pardon to convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao in October, executives at the crypto exchange dismantled a staff investigation into $1 billion that had recently moved through Binance to a network funding Iran-backed terror groups, according to company documents and people familiar with Binance’s operations. A trading account belonging to a close Binance business partner was identified as a primary channel that moved cryptocurrency to the Iranian network. Binance subsequently fired the investigators who had uncovered the transfers—and the network remained active. https://archive.ph/hbFdi#selection-2581.0-2589.109 Binance Gives Trump Family’s Crypto Firm a Leg Up Ties between the exchange and the president’s company, World Liberty Financial, have only strengthened since the president pardoned Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao. World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto start-up, reached a major landmark last month. The total circulation of the company’s signature digital coin hit $5 billion, cementing its place as one of the world’s top cryptocurrencies. Much of that success was down to an alliance with the crypto exchange Binance — founded by Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire mogul who was pardoned by President Trump last year. https://archive.ph/DSQeq#selection-695.0-695.175

Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tax-cuts-are-primarily-responsible-for-the-increasing-debt-ratio/ The article starts by noting that the national debt was actually decreasing until Reagan came along. The upshot of his tax cuts was 10 trillion of debt today. Under Clinton, who raised taxes, that decline reversed and the budget ran small surpluses in his final years. Then cam the disaster of the Bush tax cuts. Before the Bush tax cuts, the CBO was actually projecting that revenue would keep pace with spending. After the Bush tax cuts,, the CBO reversed its projections. The Bush tax cuts add about 11 trillion to the deficit. The First Trump administration added about 1.9 trillion to the debt thanks to its tax cuts. So, if you add up those totals, you get about 23 trillion dollars. That's over 60% of the current national debt. Since the current situation is grave, I'm sure you'll agree that the fairest way to gain control of this situation is to increase taxes sharply accompanied by some spending cuts in the defense dept.

It's just so weird and kind of awe-inspiring witnessing someone with an apparent case of anagnosia repeatedly go through their weird routine. But I think it's getting worse. You also seem to be ignoring the spending side of the equation now. Trump wants to increase defense spending by $500 billion. So much that his people don't know how to spend it all. Not a peep out of you. If I were a cynical type, I'd say all your self-righteous indignation was was really a clumsy pretext to support slashing social benefit programs. But I would never accuse you of sinking that low. I'll stick with the anagnosia diagnosis. But I'm open to suggestions.

Europe hits back at ‘pure tariff chaos’ from the U.S., warning trade deals are at risk European officials reacted with disbelief and concern to President Donald Trump’s latest tariff policy. “Pure tariff chaos from the U.S. administration,” the European Parliament’s trade committee chairman, Bernd Lange, slammed the White House on Sunday. ECB President Christine Lagarde warned business relations could take a hit from the latest uncertainty. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/trump-15percent-global-tariff-europe-eu-uk-reaction.html You think that Trump's collapse on Greenland would have taught the Europeans that the only way to deal with Trump is to push back hard. As things now stand, the Republicans and Trump are in a very vulnerable electoral situation. Anything that threatens the US economy has powerful persuasive leverage.

I certainly wouldn't put lying past them.

As I've noted, they are now our Viking overlords. I suspect that the Danes will try to appease them by handing over Greenland.

Here is what you wrote: You are equating Israelis with Jews. There are more Jews in the world who are not Israelis than those who are.

The difference is at least 8 million. That's the difference between the total number of Jews in the world and how many Jews live in Israel. In other words, stop equating Israeli Jews or Israel with all Jews.

Maybe because this allegation was used as a pretext to persecute Jews for almost 2000 years?

Heat is hugely important in industrial processes. But this was your claim: "despite most of all the worlds energy production goes into heating to stay alive," Not even half of the energy devoted to creating "goes into heating to stay alive" "But the biggest user is industry, which uses 50% of all heat, where it is an essential component of manufacturing, including refining raw materials, smelting metals and producing chemicals." https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/03/heat-heres-why-its-the-elephant-in-the-room-for-decarbonization/

The claim that cold causes more deaths than heat is highly suspect. Heat deaths are in fact greatly underreported. For example here's a study from South Korea in which it was determined that heat deaths were 16 to 21 times higher than reported: Estimation of heat-related deaths during heat wave episodes in South Korea Methods: We linked mortality and meteorological data in 16 regions in South Korea and estimated relative risk at or above threshold of maximum temperature during summer using generalized linear regression models after controlling for confounders. We computed overall, age-, sex-, and cause-specific attributable death in 2006-2018. Results: With 1.6% (95% Confidence intervals [CI], 0.8%, 2.4%) increase in all-cause mortality per 1°C increase in concurrent day’s maximum temperature during summer, this study estimates 349 (95% CI, 176, 520) and 790 (95% CI, 400, 1,171) all-cause deaths associated with heat waves in 2016 and 2018, respectively, in South Korea. The estimation was about 16~21 times more than the reported number by the KCDC. If we consider cumulative effects of heat wave, the estimations were greater. https://journals.lww.com/environepidem/fulltext/2019/10001/estimation_of_heat_related_deaths_during_heat_wave.735.aspx?utm_source=chatgpt.com And the issue with kidney disease is even worse. Cause of death is routinely listed as kidney disease. Rising Global Temperatures and Kidney Health: A Comprehensive Review of Current Evidence "As temperatures are anticipated to rise in the coming years, problems linked to heat and its harmful effects on kidney health are expected to become more frequent and severe with time. Heat stress significantly affects kidney health, causing acute and chronic kidney injury. The physiological strain caused by extreme heat exposure, through mechanisms such as dehydration, volume depletion, and increased glomerular permeability, contributes to a spectrum of kidney conditions, including AKI, nephrolithiasis, CKD, proteinuria, and hematuria. Heat waves are causing increased hospitalizations for kidney disease worldwide, with vulnerable groups, particularly outdoor workers and older adults, being at higher risk." https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12734593/ Hot weather as a risk factor for kidney disease outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological evidence Of 2739 studies identified, 91 were reviewed and 82 of these studies met the criteria for inclusion in a meta-analysis. Findings showed that with a 1 °C increase in temperature, the risk of kidney-related morbidity increased by 1% (RR 1.010; 95% CI: 1.009–1.011), with the greatest risk for urolithiasis. Heatwaves were also associated with increased morbidity with a trend observed with heatwave intensity. During low-intensity heatwaves, there was an increase of 5.9% in morbidity, while during high-intensity heatwaves there was a 7.7% increase. There were greater RRs for males, people aged ≤64 years, and those living in temperate climate zones. Similarly, for every 1 °C temperature increase, there was a 3% (RR 1.031; 95% CI: 1.018–1.045) increase in the risk of kidney-related mortality, which also increased during heatwaves. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721048816?utm_source=chatgpt.com Chronic kidney disease progresses faster in patients living in hot countries Chronic kidney disease patients living in the hottest countries experienced an additional 8% drop in kidney function each year compared to those living in temperate climates, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/apr/chronic-kidney-disease-progresses-faster-patients-living-hot-countries Association between heatwave exposure and rapid kidney function decline: a longitudinal cohort study from CHARLS The results showed that the rise in middle to high-intensity heat wave events was connected with a significant risk of rapid kidney function decline. Moreover, we confirmed that the connections between heat wave and rapid kidney function decline were robust after further adjustment of age, gender, medical history, drinking status, smoking status, and biochemical.We observed that males, urban residents, and smoked or drank alcohol were identified as vulnerable populations. Conclusion: This study found that increased heatwave exposure was associated with a higher risk of rapid kidney function decline in older adults. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40307802/

False: https://www.iea.org/world/energy-mix And you think that maybe a sizeable chunk of that residential energy consumption is actually used for air conditioning?

I'm fixating on a video that was offered as evidence. A video that supported climategate allegations. I even offered a snippet from a news article to show how these allegations are false. Apparently, you don't understand that we agree.

I just took a look at the list by county of the various nations and how many gold medals their athletes won (second and third place are for losers). And on a per capita basis, the following countries performed better than the USA: 3 Netherlands 10 7 3 20 4 Italy* 10 6 14 30 5 Germany 8 10 8 26 6 France 8 9 6 23 7 Sweden 8 6 4 18 8 Switzerland 6 9 8 23 9 Austria 5 8 5 18 11 Canada 5 7 9 21 12 13 South Korea 3 4 3 10 14 Australia 3 2 1 6 15 Great Britain 3 1 1 5 16 Czech Republic 2 2 1 5 17 Slovenia 2 1 1 4 Kazakhstan 1 0 0 1 In fact, out of the 19 countries that won gold medals, only 3, China, Spain and Brazil performed worse on a per capita basis. . I'd love to pursue this further but I have to slalom away to bow down and pay tribute to America's new Viking overlords. Norge! Norge! Norge! So humiliating.