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Judge Cahill’s comments on Maxine Waters’ inflammatory statements
[Hat tip: commenter “Kate.”] Jonathan Turley is covering this development through his Twitter feed, so I’m going to post some of his tweets on it. The summary version is that Chauvin’s defense lawyer Nelson raised the issue of Waters’ prejudicial … Continue reading →
Annals of woke private school education: some more on Brearley and Dalton
[NOTE: Please see my previous post on Gutmann if you’re not already familiar with it.] From the paper that often covers US stories in far more depth than our own MSM does (and with far less of a leftist slant), … Continue reading →
Victor Davis Hanson on the fake Joe Biden
I’ve long described Joe Biden as incompetent, corrupt, mendacious, and without any principle save the principle of advancing his own political fortunes – although, regarding the latter, until 2020 he’d never been very good at running for president even among … Continue reading →
Closing arguments in the Chauvin trial…
…have been happening today. You can find commentary at Legal Insurrection. Andrew Branca’s first post about it is here, but he wrote that prior to the beginning of the closing arguments. A live YouTube video of the proceedings can be … Continue reading →
Open thread 4/19/21
I guess they don’t all say “Nevermore!”
Continue reading →I bring you another musical genre: the stutter song
I’d never really thought about it before, but there are quite a few songs that feature “stutter” lyrics. Why is it done? Emphasis, I think, and perhaps just in the name of variety. Songwriters and lyricists like to use different … Continue reading →
Another brave soul pushing back against CRT in elite private schools
Bari Weiss has published another letter from a parent criticizing CRT in an elite school. The platform is Substack, which has now become one of the most important libertarian sources of information and opinion, frequently used by Bari Weiss and … Continue reading →
Court-packing (Part II): Venezuela is the template
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] For the moment, we seem to have dodged the court-packing bullet, because the Democrats don’t quite have the votes to pass it. But I believe it’s only a temporary reprieve. The Democrats are … Continue reading →
Open thread 4/17/21
The Indianapolis shooter had previous FBI contact due to mental health related issues and threats
Evidence of a sadly-familiar sort about 19-year-old Indianapolis shooter Brandon Scott Hole is emerging : McCartt said during a Friday afternoon news conference that they had responded to Hole’s home last year after reports of a man voicing suicidal ideas, … Continue reading →
Roundup
It’s another one of those days with a lot of things to cover, so here’s a roundup. (1) I’m waiting for more information on the Indianapolis FedEx shooting, but the shooter has been identified by police as 19-year-old Brandon Scott … Continue reading →