- So a Pennsylvania billionaire wants school vouchers in Texas? Why? The donor's name is Jeff Yass and here's his Wikipedia entry.
- Trump is back in court as E. Jean Carroll sues him a second time for defamation. Why? Because after the first verdict, Trump ran in front of the cameras and repeated, word for word, the same lie that had just cost him millions. Below is what I wrote when he did it. He's screwed this time because the jury form will look like this . . .
- This serial murder case is all the rage up in the Northeast, and yesterday a news conference was held to announce the addition of another charge after DNA linked the defendant to a new victim. I'll tell you one thing, if I'm the DA, I'm not letting shyster Gloria Allred anywhere near that stage.
- An underwear clad man walking through a Dick Morris live shot on Newsmax had a lot of people asking questions yesterday. Video.
- Meanwhile, DPS is still stonewalling all public records requests. We should get the Justice Department's report tomorrow.
- Texas campaign filing reports were due yesterday, and it appears that the Texas Oilman's PAC, which has been fighting off a Nick Fuentes white supremacy controversy, was very quiet. And it did not donate to the Wise County candidate as it had in the past.
- After Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the presidential race yesterday , the conservative parody account The Babylon Bee wasted little time before it invoked some racism comedy.
- Trump has rolled out a verb bizarre "God Made Trump" campaign video (which steals from Paul Harvey's original "God Made a Farmer"). Anyway, it's, uh, something. . The only thing better was the Lincoln Project's response video of "God Made a Dictator."
- Okay, this got my attention. YouTube.
- Video.
- If the net worth article below gets you attention, check out this (gifted link) which is a quick interactive Washington Post article which will place you on a chart comparing your household to others. And we certainly don't have enough of that in this world.
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This really was amazing. A Southwest jet with 124 passengers landed at the wrong airport when it was headed for Branson, Missouri. It almost skidded off the runway since it was unexpectedly short.
- Iowa Caucuses:
- Trump won with 51%. No real surprise.
- Fun fact: Trump won every one of the 99 counties with the exception of one. And in that county (Johnson County - where the University of Iowa is located), he lost by one single vote.
- Only 110,000 people voted which is only 14% of registered Republicans in Iowa. So Trump gets a major victory with 7% of Iowa Republicans who are MAGA enough to turn out in freezing temperature. And I mean extreme MAGA based upon exit polling:
- Hey, I'm not fooling myself. Trump will most certainly be the ultimate nominee. But if it were "normal times", yesterday wouldn't have told us much.
- Look who was there yesterday running around with the nuttiest of Trump worshipers.
- I think it's really strange that all the major schools in the metroplex are closed simply because of cold weather.
- This headline does not make me comfortable about the quality control standards of this crime lab. They can't even keep the water running.
- KXAS (Channel 5) caught a lot of grief for cutting away from the last minute of the close Chargers/Lions game on Sunday night to report on snow flurries. Here's the moment.
- The Feds are clamping down on bits:
- Bad timing: I saw a Tom Thumb TV commercial yesterday where it shows CeeDee Lamb running out for passes, but the ball keeps landing all around him. He then says, "I don't think this quarterback is working." The camera then pans to a Tom Thumb mascot character.
- The Emmys were last night. I didn't watch them, but saw this note:
- Legal nerdy stuff: To say that the ultra right Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is full of liberal judges might be the dumbest thing Ken Paxton has ever said.
- Over the top nerdy stuff: I just had a power down moment when I saw what the first day of UT Law's Federal Courts class entailed.
- I think bringing in 71 year old Bill Belichick to run the Cowboys is a dumb idea. But it would be entertaining.
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Another story I had forgotten.
- Big and tragic news involving Paradise and Wise County. School board member Dr. Heath Smith was piloting a small plane carrying his two of his children, ages 6 and 8, when it went down near Poolville yesterday afternoon, killing all three. It took off from Dimmit near the border and was scheduled to land at the Bridgeport airport around 1:00 p.m. He was also a surgeon for Bariatric Solutions. The story is in the New York Post this morning.
- We are in the middle of an ERCOT conservation warning which ends at 10:00 a.m., but I haven't heard on any wide ranging blackouts.
- A wild image just posted by the Fort Worth Fire Department from a fire around midnight.
- This is such a cluster. The case goes "unsolved" for 6 years, and then the D.A. abruptly indicted someone for the murder. Now, just as quickly, the indictment has been dismissed.
- The more I think about it, the more I hate the unforced error of the Atlanta D.A. (allegedly) hiring a boyfriend who isn't even close to qualified. She finally addressed the issue yesterday in, of all places, a church.
- There's a battle brewing on the border where there is now a section of land where Texas, in an effort to take over border patrol, is preventing federal border patrol agents from entering. That's nuts. And if you think it's great, what would you think if California did the same thing but for the purpose of opening of the gates?
- The Business Second. I saw this graphic about the number of homes posted for foreclosure during the last several years. And last year, 24 homes in Wise County were posted.
- Notable death.
- Cowboys
- Summed up.
- Possible explanation
- Images from the playoff game in Kansas City on Saturday night where it was was -4 degrees at kickoff. Patrick Maholmes helmet literally shattered when he got hit.
- More fun that legally nerdy: Watch 48 seconds of Rudy's lawyer arguing double jeopardy in an Atlanta courtroom. You don't have to know anything about double jeopardy to realize how funny this is.
- There was one Texa Ranger who was suspended, and is still suspended, because of the Uvalde debacle. But after 15 months, he is still getting paid and even received a $9,000 raise. He is now making just shy of $100,000 plus benefits.
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