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Hunter Biden’s laptop is back in the news but as Scott notes, John Brennan could not be reached for comment. In October of 2020, the former CIA boss joined 50 “intelligence community” veterans in a letter branding the laptop “Russian disinformation.” Hunter Biden also escaped notice in Brennan’s 2020 Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies at Home and Abroad, a confessional of sorts. “My deep religiosity as a young boy,” Brennan writes, “convinced me that I would eventually enter the seminary to join the priesthood, with the goal of becoming the first American pope.” Another possibility was the military but...

November 08, 2004 Democrats Ponder Alternatives: Vote Suppression, Secession and Assassination We have chronicled the decline of Lawrence O'Donnell, as he shrieked incoherently at John O'Neill and denounced President Bush as unfit to be depicted on his television show, The West Wing. Now, reader Craig Knutson says that O'Donnell--who is not just an artiste but a paid commentator on MSNBC--is pondering secession: Lawrence O'Donnell (I believe this is the Larry that talked on McLaughlin), said the "blue states" should over the next 20 years seriously consider seceding from the union, because the red states are welfare recipients without supporting the...