Sarah Palin has sued the NY Times for defamation based on an editorial in the paper shortly after the Scalise shooting. In it, the Times had made this false claim: In 2011, when Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a … Continue reading →
McCarthy writes: What [Trump] told Comey, in substance, was that Flynn had been through enough. A combat veteran who had served the country with distinction for over 30 years, and who had not done anything wrong by speaking with the … Continue reading →
…for defamation: Former Governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is suing the New York Times for defamation over a recent editorial tying one of her political action committee ads to a 2011 mass shooting that severely wounded … Continue reading →
Well, well, well: The Supreme Court agreed Monday to let portions of President Donald Trump’s travel ban executive order take effect, a partial victory for the White House that could come as a relief after a string of lower court … Continue reading →
Maybe I should just link to each of Andrew C. McCarthy’s articles as they come down the pike, because every one I’ve read lately brings clarity to the murky situation vis a vis all the investigations going on these days. … Continue reading →
Or perhaps it’s become a PC tool. I prefer the first explanation, but the second could be correct. What am I talking about? This: The FBI’s briefing appears so contrary to the facts as to be insulting. When a man … Continue reading →
Here’s an excellent, excellent article by my go-to guy for legal matters, Andrew C. McCarthy. The subject is the enormous and nearly-unlimited fishing expedition that is the Mueller investigation: Into an investigation that was already fraught with political tension, the … Continue reading →
The 80s and 90s featured a great deal of hysteria about child abuse in daycare, and there were a number of high-profile miscarriages of justice, most notably the McMartin case and Fells Acres in Massachusetts. In large part, the convictions … Continue reading →
In the New Yorker, Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk Gerson writes: The sheer number of Cosby accusers who have come forward, and the consistency of their descriptions of his modus operandi, are so overwhelming that they produce little doubt that … Continue reading →
The Cosby jury has ended up hopelessly deadlocked and a mistrial declared. This is not a surprising result in a hesaid/shesaid case like this, in which many years have passed since the original alleged offenses. But the prosecution has declared … Continue reading →
Why believe them, when they’ve proven to be wrong (or lying, my preferred explanation at this point) at so many turns? For example, and most recently, almost every MSM news outlet reported that anonymous but reliable sources had told them … Continue reading →
So far, the “Jackie” UVA rape story has cost Rolling Stone a pretty penny: A University of Virginia fraternity chapter has agreed to settle its lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine over a debunked story about a rape on campus. The … Continue reading →