This is shocking (or rather, it should be): former SCOTUS Justice Stevens (who is now 97), has written a NY Times op-ed piece calling for the elimination of the Second Amendment. The reason he gives is this: Rarely in my … Continue reading →
I didn’t watch the 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels, but I listened to most of it, and I’ve read some of the commentary. My take is similar to that of Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection: The Stormy Daniels story … Continue reading →
He says that Trump was right that no special counsel should have been appointed, since there was no probable cause for one. And he’s been saying that from the start: First of all, the president’s 100% right. There never should … Continue reading →
Found and cornered by Austin police, the bomber who had terrorized Austin in recent weeks killed himself by setting off an explosive device in his car. Mark Conditt, 23 years old, was traced and located by police through a series … Continue reading →
Seems to be Rotherham all over again: The Sunday Mirror blew open ANOTHER child sex abuse ring in Britain. This 18-month investigation found up to 1,000 girls, as young as 11, raped, sold for sex, and even killed for over … Continue reading →
Here’s why. Excerpt: Why do we have guidelines and manuals? Because we want our law-enforcement officers to operate within clearly legitimate boundaries, not constantly to test the margins of their lawful authority. Having guidelines encourages this. It provides a standard … Continue reading →
The Weekly Standard’s Eric Felten takes a good long look at the Steele dossier itself, and finds it impossible to believe on the face of it. Forget all the brouhaha surrounding it. Just reading it should have discredited it and … Continue reading →
Let’s look at what Trump said, in context: Vice President Mike Pence: Violence, restraining orders, California has a version of this. And I think in your meeting with governors earlier this week, individually, and as a group, we spoke about … Continue reading →
McCarthy says the Schiff memo is worse for the Democrats than for the Republicans. An excerpt from McCarthy: To be clear, the only reason Steele’s own biases have any pertinence is that the FBI and the DOJ relied vicariously on … Continue reading →
The Parkland shootings—and the police reaction to them—have sparked predictable responses on both sides. Here’s the way the liberal position on this seems to work, based on some or all of the following beliefs: (1) “Good guys” don’t kill people … Continue reading →
It’s even worse than you may have thought [emphasis mine]: The change took the people of the Keystone State unawares. While we dozed through a rainy three-day weekend, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared itself a lawmaking body, one over which … Continue reading →
…the DACA can back: Under a lower court order that remains in effect, the Department of Homeland Security must continue to accept renewal applications from the roughly 700,000 young people who are currently enrolled in the program, known as DACA. … Continue reading →