(satire) … newly hired ICE agent Kevin Michelson revealed this week that he had established dominance on his first day by beating up the biggest child prisoner he could find.

Israel has accepted that Assad's forces will take control of the region bordering on the Golan Heights (occupied by Israel). Syrians are fleeing towards the Israeli border, where they will not be allowed entry.

Farmers in California's Central Valley are draining the aquifer for unsustainable irrigation. As a result, the land is sinking (10 meters in some places), and the water supply is contaminated by arsenic.

Senator Rand Paul dislikes Kavanaugh's approach to the Fourth Amendment which bans unreasonable searches and seizures.

If all the Democrats reject Kavanaugh, and so does Paul, I think that is enough to defeat him.

The FBI, in charging Butina, reported that a leader in the Republican Party boasted in 2016 of establishing a secret communication channel to the Russian state through the NRA.

To condemn politicians for colluding with a foreign tyrant does not mean that I believe US politicians would be honest and good if not for Putin's influence. It also does not mean I consider Putin the Great Satan or that I would advocate maximum possible confrontation with Russia.

But the US does need to defend itself from this. Primarily that means punishing the politicians who engage in such betrayal.