'The Full Nunberg.' That’s what people are calling former Trump aide Sam Nunberg’s traveling media circus yesterday. Here’s a running list of the number of interviews he gave, and with whom. Over at The Atlantic, McKay Coppins has the definitive look back. Apparently, Matt Labash’s 2007 cover story on Roger Stone inspired Nunberg to become a Stone acolyte. D.C.’s Blustery Weekend. Some of our colleagues who live outside the beltway were held hostage after the major wind storm that swept through last Friday . . . by a mall sign. The Woodbridge, Virginia retail magnet known as Potomac Mills had an enormous roadside sign (billboard advertising isn’t a big thing here) that was bent by the wind. And it had to be taken down, lest it cause issues with power lines or I-95. The local lanes on one of America’s busiest highways were shut down for days, around the point where the worst traffic delays in the nation happen on a daily basis. Here is the awesome video of the sign being taken down. Dios Mio, Man. How time flies. The Big Lebowski is 20 today. Relive some of the best quotes here. Lady Lex has been found. The USS Lexington, one of America’s first aircraft carriers, has been found after sinking in World War Two. The pictures are astounding. Well done, Paul Allen. Meanwhile, in Cleveland. I don’t want to spoil any aspect of this local story in my native Cleveland. But suffice to say, it’s one of the crazier local news stories I have read lately and I expect you will agree. Life After Death. In Minneapolis, where the late Philando Castile, who was shot and killed by police at a traffic stop, a posthumous foundation is making kids there smile like he did when he was alive. How so? When he was a cafeteria worker, Castile would help cover the kids who couldn’t afford to pay for lunch. His eponymous foundation wiped out all of the debt across all 56 schools in that district. Amazing stuff. Will New York and New Jersey get their tunnel? The data whizzes at BusinessWeek have analyzed the ramifications of aging infrastructure in the Big Apple. Their conclusion? The Hudson tunnel feud could “have ramifications for the national economy.” The Lottery Hackers. This long-read item at HuffPo about hacking the lottery with knowledge of math is an inspiration. Perhaps it’ll be a movie to encourage the young to study math. Has Samantha Power Become What She Despised? Mainly, a person who would become a bystander to genocide? That’s what Sarah Quinlan convincingly argues at RedState. Save the date! Join us at the 2018 Weekly Standard Summit. This May 17-20 at the historic Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs, join Stephen F. Hayes, Fred Barnes, and Michael Warren and special guests Bret Baier and A.B. Stoddard as they discuss the future of American politics. Book your tickets now. —Jim Swift, deputy online editor. —30— |