wheatdogg

[EDITOR: The following sections of the report should be read with the Emoluments clause of the Constitution in mind. It states: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person

While stopping short of accusing the Trump campaign of actively soliciting or participating in the hacks on Clinton and Democratic Party computer systems, the investigative team nonetheless establishes

In Volume II of their report to the US Attorney General, Robert Mueller and his team describe several examples of President Donald Trump trying to obstruct the investigations into Russian assistance of

If you've been keeping score, we are now on page 41 of Volume I of the Mueller Report. After outlining how the Russian GRU and its agents attacked the computer systems of the Clinton campaign and Democratic

Having established that Russian specialists had successfully weaponized American social media with fake news and pro-Trump and anti-Clinton posts, the Mueller team now describes the sophisticated and extensive

EDITOR: This relatively short section of the Mueller report describes how the IRA-controlled social media accounts were able to lure American citizens into spreading the Russian disinformation and propaganda.

The Mueller team established what many had already suspected, that Russian operatives had weaponized Facebook and Twitter, and to a lesser extent other social media platforms, to sway public opinion toward

There are large sections of this part of the Mueller report that have been redacted as "Harmful to ongoing matter," that is, other investigations and/or prosecutions. It begins with a general

Hot on the heels of Attorney General William Barr's distressing performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday comes this letter from Emmet T. Flood, Special Counsel to President Donald Trump.

To put this in perspective, Robert Mueller is a former FBI director and a skillful lawyer with a long track record of being "Mr Straight Arrow Lawman." He would be last person on Earth to question

Continuing the republication (with commentary) of the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, here is the section explaining how the team reached its decisions to charge -- or not charge -- individuals

We resume our republishing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report of Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election, and President Donald Trump's subsequent actions. Following the general

ZHENGZHOU, HENAN --This has never been a political blog, mostly because there were so many already that adding another seemed pointless when I began this publication more than 13 years ago. It's time to

ZHENGZHOU, HENAN -- My last post was way back in November, so maybe you were wondering what was up with me. Or maybe not. Anyway, here's an update. First, my friend Joan Xie Qiong successfully had a bone

Joan Xie Qiong (right) with her friends SanSan (left) and Ivy Zhang (foreground) Since I posted my appeal two days ago, we have managed to raise another 45,000 yuan ($6,530) toward Joan Xie Qiong's medical

Joan Xie Qiong and her uncle last month I have already reported about my friend’s leukemia diagnosis and treatment here. Her chemo has progressed well, but now there are signs cancer has spread to her

Pronounce contractions correctly you will. It's been a while since I posted a puzzler, because, well, classes started last month. Plus, I am now an administrator, so my days are pretty full. But enough

My usually vivacious student Joan Xie Qiong is battling leukemia in a Guangzhou hospital. ZHENGZHOU, HENAN, CHINA -- One of my Jishou University students, Joan Xie Qiong (谢琼), 24, is battling leukemia

So far, I have only discussed common errors in spelling and usage. Here's a pronunciation puzzler. Puzzler #10: Why do some students add an extra “uh” to the end of words that don’t require it, while other

Cover of Sister Sledge single (1984 remix of "We Are Family" and "My Guy/Canadian Sunset", Cotillion label, Germany) Puzzler #9: Why do Chinese students think they have more than one