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"The Travesty of Justice Ends for Michael Flynn” blared one headline last week. On the same day, another headline warned of “The Appalling Damage of Dropping the Flynn Case.” Both articles appeared in major national newspapers, and the writers must have known that thousands of critical eyes would be on every detail of their stories: important to get things right. But the law of the excluded middle should tell us that one of these stories is embarrassingly, egregiously and maybe even career-endingly wrong.

George Papadopoulos A junior member of the Trump foreign policy advisory team in 2016, George Papadopoulos was approached by FBI agents in Chicago, where he lived with his mother after the election while waiting for what he hoped would be an offer to join the new administration. The agents said they just wanted to talk to him about contacts he’d made with people in London during the campaign. He spoke to them without a lawyer or the benefit of notes, emails or a calendar to refresh his recollection — a decision he would later regret. One of the interviews was...

FULL TITLE: Mueller's Filing Could Be Delayed Pending Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner's Indictments, says Ex-U.S. Attorney A former U.S. attorney predicted on Saturday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report may be delayed pending the possible indictments of Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner for lying to Congress. During a segment on MSNBC, host Alex Witt and legal analyst Barbara McQuade discussed Mueller’s impending report and how the long-awaited probe will finally come to an end. “Based on everything we do know so far, how do you think this probe will wrap up? Do you think there will be...

I filed this under "announcements" because he was at the meeting that didn't happen.

Okay a question about the "process crime" that Flynn is accused of. Say for instance I am on the phone and the conversation between me and my friend is being recorded by the FBI/NSA/etc... My friend asks: "How many beers you got in the fridge?" I answer: "I have 4 beers in the fridge" Now as I answer this I base this information on the fact that last time I checked the fridge I saw 4 beers on the shelf and I didn't notice two old cars of PBR waaay in the back that I only use for Chili cooking...

From the mid-1800s on, hundreds of thousands of African elephants were slaughtered for their ivory. Their valuable ivory tusks, some weighing as much as 200 pounds each, were collected and the rest of the elephant was left to rot in the sun or for scavengers to feast on. The ivory was used for many things such as piano keys, to ladies combs to various ornate pieces of carved artwork. In some areas of Africa, elephants were hunted to extinction prompting many countries to pass laws on the import and sale of ivory from elephants. In 1975, the Convention on the...