• Peggy Noonan has an insightful never-Trumper type of Republican take on Rush Limbaugh. It's not fully true in its own big picture; for example, she ignores Reagan's Neoshoba, Mississippi, dogwhistle kickoff to his 1980 campaign and other things that show that sometimes, "how it was said" on race issues (though not so much on sex issues) rather than "what was said, or intimated" was what separated Reagan and Limbaugh. And, given her work for St. Ronald of Reagan, she either knows his dogwhistles or else she's morally obtuse. In short, this is like Strangeabbott trying to spin his way away from ERCOT.
• Noah Horwitz gives a proper sendoff to Rush Limbaugh.
• Rick Hasen analyses the SCOTUS refusal to grant cert to Trump's Pennsylvania lawsuit, including the "ticking time bomb" behind the dissent of Clarence Thomas et al. It's ... interesting that Kavanaugh did not follow through on the first tilt of his hand.
• Jacobin has the legend-free facts about New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who was Tony Blair's lapdog in a previous life. New Zealand, which I did not know before, has ZERO capital gains tax. No wonder likes of Peter Thiel talk about decamping there. Of course, for Jacobin to talk about her as a hypocrite when its own publisher refuses to leave the two-party box here in Merika is itself hypocritical.
• Green Feminists have responded to the Lavender Caucus' complaint against the Georgia Green Party.
• For Black History Month, via the Observer, a look at County Line.
• Also for Black History Month: Racism and Monopoly.
• With Austin PD Chief Brian Manley gone, will a new chief force the Austin Police Academy to clean up its horrible act?
• Sometimes "cancel culture" is real, says this leftist who supports BDS but looks askance at SJWs. And cancel culture appears to have hit UNT.
• Jim Schutze has now been AWOL from D Magazine's Frontburner for a month. And, that may be intentional. His Facebook says he's a "contributing editor" for D Mag but a "FORMER columnist." So, he's been put out to some sort of pasture.
• Half of Rethugs would ditch the GOP for a MAGA Party if Trump started it. (Which he won't.)
• Ralph Nader attacks Nancy Pelosi and House Dems for their stupidity on Trump's second impeachment (and background of stupidity on the first), for reasons I totally agree with, as I called out Pelosi for the same.
INteresting that Noonan thinks Rush's foibles became more pronounced toward the end (as he was turning on her). I thought everythig was pretty much there, right up front, from the very beginning.
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