Boulder supermarket shooter found guilty on 10 counts of murder
There was never a question about whether he did it; the issue was whether he was sane enough to know right from wrong. The jury said he was. He was also convicted of 38 counts of attempted murder and some other charges.
Boulder King Soopers shooter found guilty on all 55 counts - Axios Denver
Experts explain what goes into an insanity plea in Colorado | FOX31 Denver (kdvr.com)
Just One Thing: GOP tries to change Nebraska's election rules (and fails)
Nebraska is one of two states that allocate some of their Electoral College votes by congressional district rather than winner-take-all and one of their districts leans blue in a state that is otherwise quite red, which is why in 2020, Donald Trump won 4 electoral votes there but Joe Biden also won one. Republicans in the state are making a push to change that 30-year-old system, to make the state winner-take-all again, to gain that extra vote for Trump. It’s one thing to have a reasoned debate and a vote of the people, another thing for politicians on a purely partisan basis to change the rules 6 weeks before an election. State senator Mike McDonnell, who recently became a Republican, has now said he won’t go along so it looks like the effort is dead. As it should be.
One More Thing: Weakening Hezbollah
Two tweets...first a news report that potentially changes the calculations in Israel and Lebanon. Second, the opinion of the brilliant Haviv Rettig Gur (who was a guest on the show some months ago.) The latter is one of the most profound, sobering, and thought-provoking things I've read in quite a while.
Today's Guest
Chris Stirewalt is political editor at News Nation, contributing editor at The Dispatch, and a senior fellow of the esteemed American Enterprise Institute. In addition to being the best and maybe quirkiest political analyst around, he has the distinction of being fired from his previous job at Fox News for being right an hour or two before Team Trump wanted him to be right. He also hosts "The Hill Sunday" on Sunday mornings on News Nation.
Chris Stirewalt, NewsNation Political Editor (newsnationnow.com)
Other Stuff
If this is what it appears to be, the evidence is stronger that Danielle Jurinsky's original claim of a Venezuelan gang "taking over" or at least effectively controlling an Aurora apartment complex was correct. The challenge of understanding the moving parts is increased because the same owner has more than one apartment building and they have different levels of problems: Aurora shut down apartment complex so owner could take control of building from Venezuelan gang, letters suggest | News | denvergazette.com
A Washington Post columnist remarked, after Kamala Harris's insane grocery "price gouging" nonsense, that "if you don't want your political opponents to call you a Marxist, how about not suggesting price controls?" Apparently, having learned nothing, Trump now makes a proposal that's just as economically ignorant (though maybe somewhat less obviously so to the mass of economically illiterate Americans): Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates at 10% — critics warn that it could cause people to lose their cards (yahoo.com)
Or as former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers put it:
Will California ever stop being a caricature of California? California to ban all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores after Newsom signs bill (axios.com)
Gavin Newsom signs California plastic grocery bag ban (thehill.com)
I owe you this from yesterday, about Supreme Court opinion configurations that might surprise you: Opinion | Using Math to Analyze the Supreme Court Reveals an Intriguing Pattern - POLITICO
As a radio host I'm not sure I should talk about this but I'm going to, because I share some degree of the exhaustion. Probably not as much as many people because I have long enjoyed politics as a spectator sport. But as much as I love the NFL, for example, I don't want to only watch football. But there's another difference: People have imbued politics with a sense of impending doom if "the other side" wins. There's a LOT wrong with this but it's also not entirely without some basis given how far left and right the Dems and GOP, respectively, have shifted in the past generation.
I note that the feelings expressed in the article are much of the reason why my show is only partly political though, to be sure, it gets a little more political as we drift inexorably toward the election of a terrible president.
Exhaustion and stress: How politics are affecting society | Politics | denvergazette.com
And this is related: Silent majority's role in combating polarization (thehill.com)
Can he visit these cities in a way that makes him look presidential and like he’s really aware of problems? Or will he just look like a lunatic as he did with the “they’re eating the cats” stuff at the debate? Donald Trump says he will visit Aurora | Politics | denvergazette.com
“Let the market speak”: Aurora complex ‘overtaken’ by a Venezuelan gang to be listed | News | denvergazette.com
I hate that they can make the buildings taller and block people’s views if they make some of the housing “affordable”. Denver City Council to hear Ball Arena redevelopment proposal on Monday | FOX31 (kdvr.com)
Trump could talk about this better if he didn’t also have a manufacturing-job fetish, but at least he’s good on energy policy: The Biden Manufacturing Boom That Isn’t - WSJ
As if to prove my point: Trump Issues Fresh Trade Threats, Targeting Deere - WSJ
You really can't afford even small mistakes -- and this is a small one, but still a mistake -- in a swing state: Trump campaign shows Georgia the country instead of the state in embarrassing ad gaffe | The Independent (the-independent.com)
Is the Trump campaign still being hacked, even after a few weeks of knowledge of being hacked? Trump hack continued into last week | Semafor
Latest example of “does Kamala Harris actually believe anything?”: Harris mum on supporting new "Dreamers" protections (axios.com)
I don’t know IF it will matter in the end but this is why I told you that the Taylor Swift endorsement of Harris might matter. After Taylor Swift Shares Voter Resources Online, Young Americans Register In Record-Breaking Numbers | The New York Sun (nysun.com)
Today's Videos
Thanks to listener Andy for this fun automobile trivia
Freddy's flying carpet (don't try this at home...or anywhere else)