In Connecticut: Two white UConn students have been arrested by campus police for repeatedly shouting a racial slur outside students’ apartments earlier this month. The incident was captured on a now-viral video that has led to pointed conversations about racial … Continue reading →
Often there seem to be international trends in response to historical forces, trends that then create their own historical forces. The age of 20th Century dictators, for example. Later, the resurgence of conservatism in Reagan and Thatcher. Then, a reaction … Continue reading →
I have grown very cynical. So Rand Paul’s call to investigate the four senators will probably go nowhere: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called for a probe into four Democratic Senators on Sunday over a letter that they sent to Ukraine … Continue reading →
Josh Chavetz is a law professor at Cornell, and he has written an opinion piece in the NY Times entitled “The House Can Play Hardball, Too. It Can Arrest Giuliani: Two ways that Democrats in the House can match the … Continue reading →
How much press will this get?: A newly unearthed document shows that Ukrainian officials had opened a new probe into the firm linked to Hunter Biden months before President Trump’s phone call with that country’s leader, Fox News contributor John … Continue reading →
“If the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that 18th-century Constitution should be abandoned to a 20th-century paper shredder!” —Rep. Barbara Jordan, 1974 pic.twitter.com/TkF3MdYWsL — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) … Continue reading →
Justice Clarence Thomas has missed the first day of the new SCOTUS session, it is reported. This is not good news. I hope it’s nothing serious. But the reality is that every single SCOTUS nomination has now become fraught with … Continue reading →
I think it boils down to two issues for the left regarding Trump. The first is that he’s president at all, and does what presidents do with all the attendant powers of a president. The second is that he is … Continue reading →
Rashida Tlaib should be an embarrassment to the Democratic Party, but she seems to be off-limits to their criticism. Here’s what she said: U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib told Detroit police Chief James Craig he should employ only black people on … Continue reading →
Roger Simon writes: So Barr, in the company of John Durham, his lead investigator on these matters, was in Rome talking with several people high up in Italian intelligence. They are supposed to have played for him a tape recording … Continue reading →
Big deal turns out to be nothing. [NOTE: The reference in the title is to this dud from Geraldo Rivera.] [ADDENDUM II: For some weird reason I originally wrote “Jimmy Hoffa’s” in the title of the post instead of “Al … Continue reading →
That’s the question asked by Andrew C. McCarthy here: Democrats and their media friends are attempting to paint the Barr investigation, in the public mind, as a corrupt extension of a down-and-dirty Trump 2020 political campaign… Virtually all mainstream-media reporting … Continue reading →