Most of the accused officers who were put on trial in the Freddie Gray case are suing the prosecution and the sheriff: A federal judge is allowing key parts of a lawsuit against Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby, brought … Continue reading →
Yesterday I was talking to a friend of mine who’s a political moderate and who wondered whether I was starting to feel sympathy for Trump. “No, not at all!” I protested. “I’ve never felt any sympathy for him, and he … Continue reading →
I’m not going to write much more about the Trump “dossier” story today, because I think it’s been beaten to death by now. I’ll simply add that it’s served its purpose. I would wager that most of the people I … Continue reading →
It seems that Monica Crowley may have plagiarized a substantial portion—amounting to “thousands of words”—of her doctoral dissertation. According to Politico: An examination of the dissertation and the sources it cites identified more than a dozen sections of text that … Continue reading →
…isn’t ordinarily considered a story. “Dog bites young woman” really isn’t, either. Unless it’s one of the White House dogs, Sunny, who recently bit a young female visitor on the face: We’re told the incident occurred Monday when the 18-year-old … Continue reading →
Well, it’s not as alliterative as saying it about Fox News. But check this out. Recall as you read it that CNN claimed earlier today that Trump had been briefed by the intelligence community on memos alleging that the Trump … Continue reading →
Hey, even spambots are on-target now and then. Got this yesterday: This blog doesn’t display appropriately on my blackberry ”“ you may wanna try and repair that. I have, I have!
Continue reading →That was a parody of a line from the old TV show “To Tell the Truth.” It featured a person who had accomplished something but was not a well-known celebrity, plus two well-schooled imposters. The panel asked all of them … Continue reading →
During this time of blog cache snafus, a couple of people wrote to ask if I was okay, because they hadn’t seen a new post here since last Friday. That’s how severe the cache problem was for a few people. … Continue reading →
What a long strange trip it’s been. Eight years of speeches that I mostly haven’t listened to; I read them instead. And I certainly didn’t listen to Obama’s farewell speech tonight. I relied on others to do it for me. … Continue reading →
Until I get a permanent fix for the caching glitch, my suggestion is that whenever you want to look at the latest on the blog, you should load it but then refresh it.
Continue reading →I haven’t yet read Heather Mac Donald’s City Journal article on the Chicago torture case and how it relates to the larger culture, but a lot of people have recommended it. I’ve only had time to very briefly skim it, … Continue reading →