[Scroll down to see UPDATE below.] Slowly, with exquisitely perfect timing, the news reveals itself, in order to give strength to the cries to delay the vote on Kavanaugh. The entire idea is to delay it long enough to get … Continue reading →
There are many things wrong with the accusation against Brett Kavanaugh that Diane Feinstein publicized recently. The vagueness of the charges, their antiquity, and the suspect timing, to name a few. But the one I want to focus on now … Continue reading →
Why does it take for a NY teacher to lose her teaching license? Not this, apparently: In August, Dori Myers, 30, who was arrested in January 2018, pleaded guilty to a criminal sex act for performing oral sex on the … Continue reading →
Fairness is so unusual these days, especially among Democrats (which Dershowitz still is), that it is worthy of special note. I’ve become more and more respectful of Dershowitz in recent years for his devotion to principles over party, as in … Continue reading →
A video has emerged that tells us what we already knew—that the heads of Google follow the ethos of the left: Someone leaked to Breitbart an hour-long video of an “all hands” Google meeting that was held just after the … Continue reading →
A vicious terrorist attack occurred in Spain about a year ago. That one has merged in memory along with so many others that it resembles. It featured vehicles purposely targeting pedestrians in a crowded spot, an explosion in a house, … Continue reading →
…the Kavanaugh hearings. But others have amply covered the various forms of insanity connected with the proceedings. At Powerline, we have this, this, and this. From the latter: It strikes me that the Democratic Party crossed a Rubicon of sorts … Continue reading →
The year was 2013. Faced with a Republican minority in the Senate that was blocking many of President Obama’s federal judge appointments, Harry Reid made a bold move to end the filibuster for federal judicial nominees with the exception of … Continue reading →
This Politico article by Michael Kruse on the formation of the Federalist Society in 1982 is a curious piece. It conveys what I assume are the general facts—that a bunch of far-flung conservative law professors, judges, and law students met … Continue reading →
Someone has to write it, so I guess I will. How are the accusations against Catholic priests—such as those that appear in the Pennsylvania grand jury report—substantiated as true or almost certainly true? How many involve evidence in addition to … Continue reading →
Bail bondsmen in California can’t be too happy about this development: California will become the first state in the nation to abolish bail for suspects awaiting trial under a sweeping reform bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday. An … Continue reading →
From The New Yorker: Ronell, who is sixty-six, is a literary scholar and philosopher at New York University and, by all accounts, one of the great academic minds of our time. Her accuser is Nimrod Reitman, her former doctoral student, … Continue reading →