The first sentence of this article is telling, isn’t it?: President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort on Tuesday was found guilty of eight of the 18 charges brought against him by special counsel Robert Mueller. It’s really quite simple: … Continue reading →
Pot’s illegality hasn’t stopped it from being used with great frequency in recent years by a great deal of the American public. So why not legalize it? Well, one reason might be that it would result in even higher use: … Continue reading →
Any prognosticators out there?
Continue reading →Another excellent article by Andrew C. McCarthy in National Review, this time on the way perjury traps are set. He starts out by talking about why Trump’s attorneys are saying that Trump shouldn’t talk to Mueller because of the likelihood … Continue reading →
Just read it.
Continue reading →I keep trying to get away from it, but something about this story keeps gnawing at me. So here are some more details of Gates’ testimony against Manafort [emphasis mine]: On the stand, Gates testified that he and Manafort knowingly … Continue reading →
I know I’ve already written recently about the Manafort trial and Rick Gates’s testimony but I feel the urge to link to this post by streiff at RedState because it contains some tweets with details of the courtroom shenanigans that … Continue reading →
I certainly wouldn’t—not unless there was convincing corroborating evidence of the truth of what he is saying. And really, that wouldn’t be believing Gates—it would be believing the corroborating evidence. Here’s the situation as it now stands: Manafort’s former business … Continue reading →
Byron York has been one of the reporters who has repeatedly taken on the difficult task of delving into the details of the Russia-Trump-collusion investigation by the FBI. What he finds usually isn’t pretty. And this is no exception: Because … Continue reading →
By Steven Hayward. Justice Clarence Thomas has long been a figure of ridicule and contempt, even hatred, from the left. Had he been a liberal, he almost certainly would have been their champion and hero: black, and raised in abject … Continue reading →
Paul Manafort’s trial begins today. As Liz Sheld writes: Manafort is not on trial for anything related to treasonous RUSSIAN collusion, he is on trial for working for President Trump’s campaign and for being a sleazy political consultant, which is … Continue reading →
Michael Anton has caused a furor by suggesting that birthright citizenship is not required by the US Constitution: You have to read the whole 14th Amendment. There’s a clause in the middle that people ignore or they misinterpret — “subject … Continue reading →