The Department of Justice has issued a report explaining why there will be no federal charges in the death of Freddie Gray. The summary version is that there’s virtually no evidence to convincingly support such charges. You may also recall … Continue reading →
Commenter “Montage” wrote on the recent de Blasio thread: I read the [de Blasio] interview for a more complete picture and context is important. The key is when he says: “hundreds of years of history that have ELEVATED property rights … Continue reading →
Although the program is thirteen years old, I only recently discovered the TV show “The First 48,” a documentary series that follows crimes (usually homicides) in various US cities by filming police as they put a case together piece by … Continue reading →
This is an excellent development. I have long been alarmed at the way the accused have been treated by universities under the Title IX campus sexual harassment and/or rape guidelines pushed by the Obama administration, and I’m glad that one … Continue reading →
Short but true answer: we don’t know. New Hampshire is a a small state with a small population, and that means that a relatively small number of people can change the outcome there because it’s also a purple state. So … Continue reading →
This one: Looks bad for the cop, who is a Salt Lake City police detective. He must have known it was being recorded, too. I can’t find anyone defending this guy, but if you go to the YouTube comments for … Continue reading →
Sarah Palin’s defamation suit against the NY Times has been thrown out of court: This is a case where the NY Times Editorial author James Bennet claimed to be so ignorant, so uninterested in doing any research, and so oblivious … Continue reading →
Paul Mirengoff (not ordinarily a Trump fan) makes the case here. I confess to not having followed the Joe Arpaio conviction story. But Mirengoff’s piece seems reasonable enough to me, with its main point that the Arpaio pardon represents “a … Continue reading →
A NY Times op-ed by K-Sue Park that I critiqued recently called for the ACLU to “rethink” its free-speech defense of Nazi rallies, and to loosen its traditional even-handed defense of freedom of speech as a principle of liberty and … Continue reading →
It might seem that the perps in the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks should have been easier to detect because this was a multi-person cell, a group rather than a lone wolf. Nevertheless, not a single one of the people involved, … Continue reading →
All too predictably, there’s a call in the NY Times for the ACLU to “rethink” its support of freedom of speech for Nazis. It’s from a lawyer named K-Sue Park, who works as “a housing attorney and the Critical Race … Continue reading →
Alan Dershowitz believes that even partisans must apply the same rules to each side: Now that it is President Trump who is being targeted, my partisan Democratic friends are vociferously rejecting these neutral civil liberties arguments, because they do not … Continue reading →