[NOTE: Also please see today’s previous post on the Penny trial.] Just a little while ago the judge in the Daniel Penny case dismissed the first count – manslaughter in the second degree – after the jury once again announced … Continue reading →
Biden’s pardon of his son has many very unusual characteristics. It’s one thing for a president to pardon his son – which is already unusual. It’s another to do it like this (the clip is about two minutes long): The … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Please see UPDATE in this new post.] The jury is deadlocked on the charge of manslaughter in the second degree after three days of deliberation. Penny is facing a second lesser charge as well: criminally negligent homicide, which carries … Continue reading →
On immigration: He suggested that he planned to work with Tom Homan, who Trump recently nominated to become his new border czar. “Those who are here committing crimes, robberies, shooting at police officers, raping innocent people, have been a harm … Continue reading →
But it’s Hunter Biden’s father’s extraordinary pardon. Because I never took Joe Biden’s promises not to pardon Hunter seriously, I didn’t really follow how many people on the left were saying he was some George-Washington-like figure for making the vow. … Continue reading →
And yet some people are surprised. Or are they pretending to be surprised? It’s the old fools/knaves puzzle. There are so many fascinating aspects to this action of Biden’s, even though the thing itself was almost inevitable. If Joe Biden … Continue reading →
A lot of people at the FBI must be feeling a certain amount of anxiety and/or rage tonight. The news: President-elect Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel as FBI director evoked strong reactions from supporters and critics Saturday night. Patel’s nomination … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I noticed a recent discussion on the blog about what constitutes a religion. And so I thought it might be apropos to revisit a post from 2017 on that very topic. Here it is.] The question of how a … Continue reading →
Well, well, well. Fancy that: The nation was put through a traumatic and disruptive series of court cases designed to stymie and hamstring and bankrupt and discourage – and if possible imprison, although that was a secondary goal – Donald … Continue reading →
House member Matt Gaetz was a controversial AG nominee from the start, and there was plenty of speculation that he wasn’t nominated with the intent of his actually being confirmed. At any rate, he’s withdrawn his name, saying: While the … Continue reading →
Jose Iberra has been convicted of murdering Laken Riley and sentenced to life imprisonment (which I suppose, in a way, is another sort of free ride, but a less pleasant one): Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge Patrick Haggard found Ibarra … Continue reading →
This: Hubbard County Auditor Kay Rave filed a complaint after she determined that she could not find completed registration forms among the ballots she received from Scouton’s jurisdiction. This complaint led to an investigation by the Hubbard County Sheriff’s Office. … Continue reading →