I want to discuss Netanyahu. Normally this would be a column but I think everyone needs to hear it. It can’t be underestimated how much Netanyahu has lost everybody. I mean everybody. Even Israel Hayom — Sheldon Adelson’s paper — says he should lick Hamas and get out.

This damn fool Johnson has a chance. Johnson is the most conservative speaker in a hundred years. He is also the most inexperienced. He is eight years in the House and has never been in leadership of any sort.

We'll do this in one place for future reference. It began in 1980. The Phanatic accompanied players to Japan on a barnstorming trip. There were boxes of balls in the clubhouse to be signed. The Phanatic signed on the sweet spot. Lasorda was furious.

https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1680647841289580546

In retaliation he forced the Phanatic to sign several hundred baseballs, which is so small thing when you've only got four fingers.

On Lou Gehrig Day I can add nothing to the appreciation of him as a player or a man. But I will say something about his relationship with Ruth, which is frequently misunderstood. Gehrig and Ruth came from similar backgrounds. They came from dirt. The difference in Gehrig's case was his mother, who was strict. He loved her very much. She kept him in line. But he understood Ruth's youth, and vice versa.

Taking into account the Indictment, the Statement of Facts, Bragg’s statement, and statements in court, here is our view of the case as we know it. As we predicted, Trump’s attorneys told the press their defense will be that the state cannot an alleged federal crime. They have a limited point.

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I say this not to criticize our friend here but point out that we use the word genius very carefully. I define it as extraordinary intellectual power, creative power that is or seems unique. Berra had it. Uecker has it.

https://twitter.com/plinytheelder_t/status/1638944852552609793

As the story details, Uecker once plausibly outlined the full season of a sitcom mid-game, based purely on the fact that they sell rooftop seats outside Wrigley. When a player came into the game, Uecker would incorporate him into the show. Some very rich people can't do that.

No.

https://twitter.com/pygmalion55/status/1638546370767224832

The Committee is majority Tory, remember. It includes Sir Bernard Jenkin, who is as far to the right as you can go on Brexit without being Farage. Yet he would love nothing more than to put Johnson on a slow boat to India.

They had better.

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Frum is busy drawing a line between Trump and John Edwards. That's a waste of time. It was a long time ago, and quite a lot of that jury surely voted for Edwards. Trump won't get a sympathetic jury in New York City.

Virtually every Irish I've known gets mean when he drinks. It's sort of a natural trait. Particularly the real Irish. President Nixon is resting. - RZ

There has been a lot of "how dare he mention the poor when he is rich." This misses the point. All I see is a fellow champing at the bit to tell the people who created this crisis what he thinks of them and where to put it. But he can't, quite.

https://twitter.com/CarefulTweeter/status/1607188946806767617

It's a bit of a cruel joke. Charles is incapable of playing polo and drinking all day. It makes him sick. His life's work has largely been using his power to stand up for the weak. But there are severe constitutional restrictions on his ability to do that.

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If you have appreciated President Nixon's commentary this evening, and have not already done so, please consider making a small donation here. He will be present until 1 a.m. in the east, and return in the morning. Thank you. - RZ ko-fi.com/dick_nixon I returned to say everyone who laughed at us about Fetterman can go to hell.

Watch New Hampshire early. Bolduc is a clown. I think Hassan will win, but the better he does, that will tell you how the wind blows nationally.

https://twitter.com/davidkeithlaw/status/1590063162103320576

In Pennsylvania I think Fetterman and Shapiro win, but this is pure popularity and I don't think it's a national barometer. I think Kelly survives in Arizona, and Cortez Masto by a hair's breadth. Laxalt peaked at the wrong time, I think.

It seems to me "Hi, goodnight everybody" was scripted as a way to demonstrate what he might do. Fetterman has appeared in public a lot. Few if any people who come to see him appear to fan themselves in the manner of the sainted Beltway press.

Regarding the letter to Biden from the Progressive Caucus: first, it seems a significant break in discipline of the type unknown under Pelosi. I want to know what’s going on there. Second, I want to know who chose to do it in this manner, and why. It seems a gift to the Russian state press.

That the Mail should invade Baroness Lawrence’s privacy is especially disgraceful and ironic.

https://twitter.com/bbcdaniels/status/1578050430650748928

Baroness Lawrence is the mother of Stephen Lawrence, the young black man who was murdered in an unprovoked racist attack at a South London bus stop in 1993. The police slow-walked the investigation, writing it off as a black kid up to no good. The family wouldn't have it.

This is true: Berg went to Tokyo with an expensive movie camera. He adopted Japanese dress, concealed the camera in it. He bought flowers, brought them to the hospital where the American ambassador's daughter had just given birth. He snuck to the roof, photographed Tokyo harbor.

https://twitter.com/plannerben/status/1577326125788925953

My favorite of Berg's known missions, however, is teaching himself nuclear physics, then crossing into Switzerland under Swiss cover, speaking Swiss German, to find Heisenberg. Berg had to ascertain where the Nazis were with the bomb, and kidnap or kill Heisenberg if necessary.

There has been some question as to why the King may flirt with constitutional crisis. I will try to explain. @CalumetDundee Britain has no written constitution, but it is generally agreed the monarch has “the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn.” He or she may not take political positions. For a monarch to infringe on Parliament would cause the system to collapse.

An incalcuable political and symbolic loss. She read every state paper since 1953. There has never been, and never will be, such a combination of knowledge and skill. She shaped Britain with very few fingerprints. Her greatest legacy is the Commonwealth. Seeing the inevitable breakup of Empire, she fortified British political influence worldwide, and boosted the home economy by inviting the Commonwealth home to Britain.

Biden’s inaugural was a bit of pressure cooker, remember. It had a vein of anger through it. He said right is right, American is American, and you do the Lord’s work or you don’t. Then he proceeded to hope he wouldn’t have to do that. Now he has. Not a soaring speech by any means, but effective enough in its bluntness. He hit the popular things he’s done and said that reasonable people have got to be vigilant and turn out. A conservative can appreciate it if they want.