John Hinderaker has written a must-read piece on how a group of lawyers in academia is undermining the fight against terrorists. It’s based on this article by William Bradford: Bradford writes that radical Muslims have targeted “an interconnected ”˜government-media-academic complex’ … Continue reading →
…and Orin Kerr tells us the ways in which the Times has distorted the truth in order to make Thomas look bad (many of the comments there are worth reading, too). Most liberal Democrats long ago absorbed and swallowed whole … Continue reading →
Expect more of this sort of horrific crime: A man shot a uniformed sheriff’s deputy “execution-style” while he fueled his patrol car in the Houston area, killing him instantly, authorities said. Deputy Darren H. Goforth, 47, was returning to his … Continue reading →
After shocking murders such as the one in Virginia yesterday, there are the predictable calls for more and/or better gun control, particularly regarding background checks. In the case of Flanagan, he purchased his gun legally and apparently passed a background … Continue reading →
Hugh Hewitt has a good interview with Carly Fiorina that focuses mainly, but not hardly exclusively, on Hillary Clinton’s problems with her server and her explanations about it. The following portion of the interview interested me in particular, however. You … Continue reading →
Trump’s immigration plan is certainly guaranteed to get him even more attention than before. It’s a nice list of pipe dreams for the most anti-illegal-immigrant wing of the electorate, although it also features some workable and laudable proposals that are … Continue reading →
The extremely sad and horrifying story of how Jennifer Pan, a Canadian woman whose parents hailed from Vietnam and who had huge dreams for her academic success and pressured her to achieve it, came to hire three hit men to … Continue reading →
Claire McCaskill certainly remembers, because (as was strongly suspected even at the time) she helped engineer Akin’s win in the 2012 Republican primary for senator in Missouri, since she was well aware he’d be a weaker opponent against her than … Continue reading →
For a while now I’ve been ignoring the emerging information about Hillary Clinton’s use of her server for classified information. My assumption was that, no matter how incriminating the evidence, she would be protected from any serious repercussions. So—what difference … Continue reading →
Excellent, excellent article. Here’s an excerpt: This is the point I really want to make: the constant emphasis on police shootings of *unarmed* men that we see in the press is, for the most part, crazy. If you are a … Continue reading →
Alan Dershowitz opines on the “treaty vs. agreement” dispute regarding the Iran deal: The Framers of our constitution probably would have regarded the nuclear deal with Iran as a “treaty,” subject to a two thirds ratification by the Senate. At … Continue reading →
…here: Three University of Virginia graduates and members of a fraternity profiled in a debunked account of a gang rape in a retracted Rolling Stone magazine story filed a lawsuit against the publication and the article’s author Wednesday, court records … Continue reading →