Asks Jennifer Rubin, wondering if prominent Democrats’ indiscreet statements are less accidental than they have been taken to be.

Your Volgi has no opinion. This is the ‘Puter’s turf. Especially because it involves his beloved Chuck Schumer. It does remind me, though, of how the Janissaries of Istanbul, in their late, corrupt days, would exploit their offices as that wooden city’s firemen. They’d go out, torch a building, then extort money from its owner and neighbors to put it out before it burned the whole block down.

Hmm, now why do I have an urge to go listen to “The City Sleeps,” by MC 900 Foot Jesus? (In case you do, too: )

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.