Unlike this addled pious buffoon, and many of you I’m sure, I am very happy for Julian, and I will be happier still if he can ever resume the practice of his essential journalism.

M. Mercouris points out the many ways in which this has still been a gross miscarriage of justice, (to turn pastor mike’s phrase on its pointy head), including the saddling of this now nominally free man with half a million in debt for a plane ride accompanied by a ridiculous number of useless cops.

Silver clouds and dark linings; aye, same as it ever was.

He is alive and he is not actively persecuted and imprisoned.

That is as good a start as any of us can reasonably hope for in these end times.

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The very best analysis I’ve heard on the broader questions raised here, all the more impressive because it was taped before the release was even confirmed. Good job, Matt.