In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

Here's a question nobody's asked: the accepted narrative of the illegal U-turn on the Florida Turnpike has Harjinder Singh wandering expressionlessly around the scene after the accident and then, apparently free to leave, flying back to California, where the US Marshals tracked him down and arrested him several days later. But here's the rub : Passed by Congress in 2005, the REAL ID Act enacted the 9/11 Commission's recommendation that the Federal Government “set standards for the issuance of sources of identification, such as driver's licenses.” The Act established minimum security standards for state-issued driver's licenses and identification cards and prohibits certain federal agencies from accepting for official purposes licenses and identification cards from states that do not meet these standards. The official purposes for which a REAL ID is required include boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft. As it happens, my California Drivers Li...

UPDATE: Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien from India who killed three innocent people, FAILED an English Language Proficiency assessment. Singh provided correct responses to just 2 of 12 verbal questions and only accurately identifying 1 of 4 highway traffic signs. And yet,… pic.twitter.com/AwndMrW9Vm — Homeland Security (@DHSgov) August 20, 2025 The level of non-feasance that led to Harjinder Singh's illegal U-turn that killed three people on the Florida Turnpike is astonishing. The twisted path via which he received a California commercial driver's license is coming to light only slowly : Washington authorities said Friday they continue to investigate the licensing history of a commercial truck driver involved in a fatal crash this month in Florida that has drawn national attention. . . . Federal authorities say the state of Washington issued Singh a commercial driver’s license on July 15, 2023. On Friday, a spokesperson for the Washington State Department of Licens...

Via Fox News: The Rhode Island assistant attorney general whose arrest went viral earlier this week after she seemingly tried to use her position to evade arrest, telling officers they'd "regret" putting her behind bars, will be placed on unpaid leave. Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan, who was arrested for trespassing, was placed on paid leave after the incident while the Rhode Island Attorney General's office reviewed the matter. Starting Monday, Flanagan will go on unpaid leave, the office told Fox News Digital. It is unclear how long Flanagan will remain on unpaid leave until a final determination is made on her employment. The attorney general's office did not respond to additional questions about its ongoing review of the matter or when it might make a final decision. The orignal video from last weekend \went viral as a paradigmatic exemplar of entitlement, with more than a little whif of DEI. I worked for a utility where each ca...

I've mentioned here that for part of my adolescence, I lived with my family in Bethesda, which is one of the wealthiest places in the US, with a median household income in recent years about $190,000. In comparison, the median household income for Beverly Hills is about $127,000; the median household income for Greenwich, CT is about $136,000. The news photos of yesterday morning's FBI raid on John Bolton's home in Bethesda really took me back: that could have been my street and my neighborhood. I went to Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, whose team is the Barons. (This wasn't the monogram when I went there; at that time, it was more like the mustachioed Monopoly man, but the point is the same.) Bethesda has its own entry in the Urban Dictionary : Person from Bethesda: Hi, I'm from Bethesda. Person Not from Bethesda: Hi, you must be a rich snobby [redacted]. PFB: Well yeah kind of, but at least I'm not from Potomac where it's illegal t...

With Wednesday's news of President Trump calling on Federal Reserve Bank Governor Lisa Cook to resign following a criminal referral to the Justice Department for mortgage fraud, there are now three high-level figures accused of the same crime, declaring two separate homes their primary residence to get favorable interest, tax, and insurance rates. On Fox News, Kennedy interviewed legal commentator Horace Cooper specifically on Sen Schiff's predicament, but his comments in the clip embedded above apply just as much to the other two: This type of fraud is fairly common, and it is frequently prosecuted. In fact, the real challenge here is how will the senator find an easy way out. 18 US 1001 says that you can't lie, in writing or in your application, and 1014 says that you can't lie on your application. Once you've actually done that, and there's a five-year statute of limitations, unless that is extended by ongoing carrying-out activities to promote the...

Bishop Robert Barron posted yesterday on something I've noticed for a while on YouTube: phony videos that represent themselves as being on a particular topic, putatively generated by AI. I spent a career in tech, mostly before the "AI" quasi-phenomenon, but I've always been skeptical of what's now being represented as AI. Certainly it's the case that there are YouTube videos that represent themselves as being about Bp Barron, C S Lewis, and Abp Fulton Sheen, which quickly turn out to be vapid fakes -- but are they in fact AI-generated? In the video above, Bp Barron notes, One that just came out recently had me giving recommendations about how to remove demons from your toilet. So my point, everybody, is this is all ridiculous. And I think if you spend just a moment, you can tell the difference between an authentic video from me and one of these fakes. This is exactly right. What I see in the news over and over is that "they" are gonn...

It turns out that James Comey's strange video on Taylor Swift is just the tip of an iceberg. Julie Kelly has looked at all his Substack posts . These began in May. Clad in business attire and wearing some sort of white make up to conceal a persistent puffy-eye problem, Comey gives scripted performances in a cloying uptalk cadence to answer his critics in a carefree way to sound like he isn’t worried about potential legal consequences for what he did. He talks a lot about “love” and “laughter” and finding “peace” in the second era of Trump—quickly leading the viewer to believe Comey actually has very little love, laughter, or peace in his life. (A well-earned miserable existence if that’s indeed the case.) One big question is how he has the time to do this stuff -- making videos is actually time-consuming work. Keep in mind that he started as an associate at a white-shoe law firm and went on to climb the ranks as an associate US Attorney, a US Attorney, Deputy Attorney G...