U.S. Politics

[Tom Graves]

My wife lived in the USSR from her birth in 1954 until it's collapse. She then lived in the Soviet-style republic of Belarus until 2007, when she joined me. During the Obama and Biden years, she must have said at least 25 times, in these very words, "My God, this is just like the Soviet Union! This is just what they were trying to do."

Dear FPR,

You've posted the same heart-warming story two or three times, now.

Every time I read it, I weep profusely and then I start wondering whether or not Maria Butina whispered the same sort of things into the ears of Patrick M. Bryne and Paul Erikson as she nibbled on them.

Their ears, that is.

And it also reminds me, in a roundabout way, of Marina Oswald, whom some people say was a hooker for the KGB* in Leningrad before she married her Handsome Prince Charming within a month of meeting him, even though she later claimed, "everybody hated him."

*Today's SVR and FSB

-- Tom

[Michael Capasse]

The next time Rubio hands him a note....
"Marco has just handed me a note...let's see what it says...'Do not read this one out loud'...."