A majority are in favor of doing just that: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that one-out-of-three Likely U.S. Voters (35%) now believes that illegal immigrants should be allowed to vote if they can prove they live in … Continue reading →
What else did the rioting people of Baltimore expect? Riot against police, attack them as they go about making arrests, demand that authorities indict six of them for actions and/or oversights that in any other climate would probably be considered … Continue reading →
About the current claims that, back when Obamacare was being drafted, that language about the necessity of state exchanges for subsidies just sort of snuck in there by accident and/or error, Megan Mcardle writes: 1. This is not new. 2. … Continue reading →
…get it right on blocking elements of Obama’s amnesty. For now, anyway: The decision means that a lower court ruling blocking millions of illegal immigrants from obtaining work permits and otherwise avoiding deportation will be allowed to stand, delaying the … Continue reading →
I don’t have a definitive answer to the question posed by the title of this post. But I know that it’s an important question. ISIS is a modern phenomenon. Violence and terrorism is an old, old one, but the internet … Continue reading →
…and pointing with anger and derision at the revelations that Josh Duggar, now 27 and married with children, once sexually molested several minor girls and the issue was dealt with extra-judicially. I’ve written about the Duggars before, here. They are … Continue reading →
…as he was sentenced to death. I don’t think the jurors cried from sympathy. I think they cried from excess of emotion, relief, and exhaustion. It’s somewhat surprising that in Boston, a town where 62% had favored a life sentence, … Continue reading →
An excellent move: Nicole Eramo is seeking more than $7.5 million in damages from Rolling Stone; its parent company, Wenner Media; and Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the investigative journalist who wrote the explosive account of sexual assault on the campus in … Continue reading →
I understand the temptation to pass hate speech laws. But there’s a temptation to do a lot of things that are wrong and lead to an unacceptable loss of liberty. We are not free to do anything that harms another … Continue reading →
The ruling greatly increases the pressure on Congress to make significant changes””or end outright””the surveillance program. The judges not only ruled against the phone program, but sharply criticized many of the legal theories upon which the U.S. government has built … Continue reading →
Another Tweeter with an itchy Twitter trigger finger* learns that pausing to think before tweeting might be wiser: Chris Cuomo is co-host of CNN’s morning show. He’s also a former law and justice correspondent for ABC News. He has a … Continue reading →
The Baltimore Sun reports that an investigative Task Force of the Baltimore Police Department has found that, contrary to the assertion by prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, Freddie Gray’s knife was illegal (just as the arresting police had claimed): While Mosby said … Continue reading →