Republican senators reportedly open to impeachment as of January 25, 2021 (report).

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.)

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.)

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio)

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.)

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.)

Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)

Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.)

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)

Rand Paul called their bluff, potentially exposing them to political liability by raising a point of order on the impeachment issue and forcing all 100 senators on the record through a vote. The list above was as of January 25. On January 26, when forced to vote, the list was reduced to five:

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.)

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.)

The Romney Five. The remaining turncoats, turned coat again and voted that the impeachment was unconstitutional. McConnell had been saying that the impeachment trial was inevitable a day or two prior to Paul’s point of order and sounding like he (McConnell) was a vote for impeachment. How embarrassing for the minority leader. Read about it here:

Can Rand Paul Save the Senate?

Are all Republican politicians cowards? Well not the Romney Five. They are just turncoats who should be voted out of office. The balance of these old worthies are gutless frauds. Just politicians, I guess, and pretty despicable. What this shows is that the Republican party of 2021 is Trump’s party. No other Republican even comes close. The old guard in the senate will have to suck it up and pretend they were always on Trump’s side. They have self-identified as turncoats, however, and we should remember them for it.

Congratulations to Senator Paul.

Our government is run by imbeciles.

This is the same jerk who said you can never have Mid-East peace without the Palestinians.

This is the same jerk who threw away fake medals after Vietnam.

This is the type case of worthless Democrat politician.

Hard to believe half the country voted for these morons.

Climate will kill us all!

THE HELL WITH THE HALL OF FAME

PAUL MIRENGOFF:

The National Baseball Hall of Fame voters have decided, collectively, not to elect anyone to the Hall this year. Curt Schilling came the closest to obtaining the required 75 percent of the votes. He collected 71.1 percent, falling 16 votes short.

Schilling’s exclusion is a travesty. He clearly had a Hall of Fame caliber career. As I wrote last year around this time:

Schilling’s career WAR (wins above replacement player) is 80.5. That’s just behind Bob Gibson and just ahead of Tom Glavine and Carl Hubbell. All three are generally considered upper tier Hall of Famers.

Like Gibson, Schilling boasts an exquisite post-season record. He went 11-2 with a 2.23 ERA and a 0.97 WHIP (walks plus hits over innings pitched) in 19 starts and 133.3 career playoff innings. Schilling won three World Series rings, was named MVP of the 1993 NLCS, and co-MVP of the 2001 World Series (with Randy Johnson).

Moreover, Schilling engaged in no baseball-related misconduct that could justify his exclusion. He didn’t throw games like Shoeless Joe Jackson. He didn’t bet on games like Pete Rose. There is no indication that he used performance enhancing drugs like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.

Schilling was excluded because of his politics. The Washington Post concedes this.

Joe Posnanski of the Athletic had voted for Schilling’s admission every year since the pitcher became eligible. This year he did not vote for Schilling.

What changed? Not Schilling’s stats. Not his political stances or comments. What changed is the political environment in the most contentious year of the Trump presidency — impeachment, BLM, the election, etc. What changed is the increased audacity of the cancel culture.

Posnanski insists that he didn’t blackball Schilling because the pitcher is conservative. He notes his support for Mariano Rivera, another conservative, who was elected to the Hall unanimously.

This reminds of when anti-Semites used to say, “some of my best friends are Jewish.” Yes, but a certain kind of Jewish. Or, in Posnanski’s case, a certain kind of conservative.

It shouldn’t matter, for purposes of the Hall of Fame, what kind of conservative a candidate is. It shouldn’t matter what his political beliefs and pronouncements are — whether about transgender individuals or anything else.

Anti-Schilling writers cite the language in the Hall of Fame instructions saying that voters should consider the “integrity, sportsmanship [and] character” of candidates. This language provides a basis for excluding Joe Jackson, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, and maybe Pete Rose, if voters see fit to do so.

However, if the “character” language is going to be used to exclude some conservatives for their political speech, then to hell with the Hall of Fame.

Curt Schilling now feels the same way. He has asked that his name be withdrawn from the writers’ ballot next year — the last in which he is eligible for election by the writers. Why give leftist sportswriters the opportunity to signal their “virtue” by not voting for him?

The left has marched steadily through our institutions — academia, the media (including sports pages), the corporate world. Now it has marched through the Hall of Fame. Baseball fans should no longer take the Hall seriously. Conservative fans should ignore it entirely.

Ironically, Schilling’s fame will be magnified by the writers’ snub. His name will come up whenever the Hall of Fame is discussed and his credentials frequently will be recited. He will not recede from the public’s consciousness, as he would have had he been enshrined at Cooperstown.

Curt Schilling has achieved baseball immortality.

NEW YORK TIMES WRITER ARRESTED AS SECRET IRAN AGENT ACKNOWLEDGES HE WAS PAID BY IRANIAN GOVERNMENT.

Statement from Iranian agent, oops I mean “journalist.”

“At no point in my professional career, I have been moved by anything other than my rather puritanical moral responsibility as an intellectual,”

Biden Commerce Secretary: Sorry Folks, We’re Raising Taxes to Pay for Climate Policies

“…During her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill this week, Biden Commerce Secretary nominee Gina Raimondo admitted Democrats will have to raise taxes on all Americans, including the middle and lower class, in order to pay for President Biden’s “climate” agenda.

“Let me say this, I as governor am deeply in touch with how much increasing bills affect the average American family. Having said that, we do need to meet the climate change challenge and we need funds for improved infrastructure,” Raimondo said. “I would look to balance those interests.”…”

Biden Appoints Sociologist Alondra Nelson to Top Science Post

“Scientists praise US president’s selection of the bioethics and social inequality specialist to help lead the Office of Science and Technology Policy.”

Poll: Seven out of 10 voters think U.S. news media will be friendlier to Biden than it was to Trump

Biden Justice Department rescinds Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ enforcement policy on illegal immigration

Biden orders Justice to end private prison contracts in attempt to address racial inequality

We live in the age of stupid.

Democrats will blame anything and anybody but the actual people who committed crime for the high percentage of blacks in jail.

Their failure to face reality results in twisted pretzel logic and political decisions that have no basis in fact.

Starts about 14:30. Runs for about 5 or 6 minutes.

Hat tip to Kane

“The mob who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 to try to stop Congress from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities were behaving like domestic enemies of our country,” Gabbard said. “But let’s be clear, the John Brennans, Adam Schiffs and the oligarchs in Big Tech who are trying to undermine our constitutionally protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style surveillance are also domestic enemies — and much more powerful, and therefore dangerous, than the mob that stormed the Capitol.”

Obstruction boomerang: FBI knew DOJ was preparing to fire Comey long before Trump ordered it

Rosenstein offered to wear wire on Trump, wanted fired Comey’s advice on special counsel, newly declassified memos show.

YouTube strips rising media company Epoch Times of ability to monetize video content

“This is the latest example of big tech suppression of free speech, a step on the road to communist-style censorship’ – publisher Stephen Gregory.

Mark Steyn: “Yesterday’s mental illness is today’s social policy”

I would replace “social” with “government”

https://youtu.be/b_FMtOImgZ4

California prof: Heterosexuality is ‘tragic.’

It is so comically stupid, you just can’t make it up.

CNN Describes Antifa Violence in Seattle, Portland As “Protesters” For “Racial Justice”

Dr. Anthony Fauci: The Highest Paid Employee In The Entire U.S. Federal Government

Fauci — Wrap your face in 17 inches of fine wool from Tibetan mountain sheep, and you should be fine

Schumer: Biden Should Consider Declaring ‘Climate Emergency’ So He Can Do Things without Congress.

Your online activity is now effectively a social ‘credit score’

“…If the thought of companies stalking you online and denying you services because they think you’re a sinner gives you the Orwell Anti-Sex League chills, you should know that Airbnb just asked Instagram to hold its beer.

The same day Ms. Ward launched her fundraising campaign, reports emerged detailing Airbnb’s new “trait analyzer” algorithms that compile data dossiers on users, decides whether you’ve been bad or good, gives you a score, and then “flag and investigate suspicious activity before it happens.”

The Evening Standard reported on Airbnb’s patent for AI that crawls and scrapes everything it can find on you, “including social media for traits such as ‘conscientiousness and openness’ against the usual credit and identity checks and what it describes as ‘secure third-party databases’.”

They added, “Traits such as “neuroticism and involvement in crimes” and “narcissism, Machiavellianism, or psychopathy” are “perceived as untrustworthy.” Further:

It uses artificial intelligence to mark down those found to be “associated” with fake social network profiles, or those who have given any false details. The patent also suggests users are scored poorly if keywords, images or video associated with them are involved with drugs or alcohol, hate websites or organisations, or sex work.

It adds that people “involved in pornography” or who have “authored online content with negative language” will be marked down…”