I’m back in the States now, and catching up on backlogs of both news and work. (The latter isn’t going to leave me much opportunity for brooding and writing for a while, I’m afraid.)
The new Democrat House is in charge. Among the most depressing consequences of that gloomy fact is that the ongoing investigations by the House Judiciary, Oversight, and Intelligence Committees into abuses of state power under the Obama administration — sickening corruption and malfeasance at the highest levels of government, for which, in a just world, the consequences would involve lamp-posts and tumbrels — will now be shut down. The bad guys are simply going to get away with all of it, and there’s nothing you or I can do about it.
The American Spectator has the dismal story, here.