There are quite a few interesting things about this incident. The first is that there are still Republican students and a Republican Club at Stanford these days. The second is that involves a male college student filing assault charges against … Continue reading →
I’m not going to bother to fisk this NY TImes op-ed by Alexis Grenell because Ann Althouse has already done it very well in this post. Instead, I want to concentrate on one phrase in one sentence of Grenell’s leftist, … Continue reading →
I am heartily sick of Christine Blasey Ford, and I hope her three weeks of fame is now over or will be over very very very soon, and she will return to the obscurity she professes to crave. Whatever happens, … Continue reading →
Alan Dershowitz doesn’t think anyone should go easy on Julie Swetnick if it turns out she lied and knew she was lying: DERSHOWITZ: If you have information suggesting it’s false, and any reasonable lawyer hearing her on television says you … Continue reading →
This headline made me chuckle: “UN court tells US to ease Iran sanctions in blow for Trump.” Why would anyone care what the UN says, or consider this a “blow”? More: It remains unclear whether the judgment will be anything … Continue reading →
Rachel Mitchell has issued a report that criticizes Ford’s testimony, but what does Mitchell know? She’s only an expert. And she deals with facts and logic, and we don’t want no steeenking facts here. Here’s the complete report and a … Continue reading →
The presumption of innocence for the accused is one of the pillars—probably the main pillar—of our criminal law. Its importance to our liberty cannot be overstated. But Chuck Schumer was at least partially correct when he said of the Kavanaugh … Continue reading →
I keep reading that Christine Blasey Ford was highly sympathetic on Thursday and that her emotionally intense rendition of her story made her testimony especially “credible.” But long before Kavanaugh was even nominated, I had already written about the relative … Continue reading →
My respect for Alan Dershowitz deepens, and it was quite deep already. He said this yesterday: The Republican majority on the panel has selected Arizona county sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell for the job, but the issue with her, according … Continue reading →
[UPDATES below] NOON: So far I have not been able to bring myself to watch, although I probably will watch some of it later. That may surprise you, but it’s for several reasons. The first is that I always am … Continue reading →
Perhaps the Ford forces thought it would never come to this. Because they couldn’t possibly have thought that anyone would accept these results as evidence of anything except their own conniving and misleading duplicity: Ah, that's why they didn't want … Continue reading →
Yesterday I put up a short clip of Clarence Thomas excoriating the Senate Democrats at his 1991 hearing. I want to highlight it now: Thomas speaks with great eloquence, but it’s his affect that is especially arresting. You can feel … Continue reading →