According to the preliminary report of an autopsy requested by the Brown family, Michael Brown was shot six times, four in the right arm and two in the head, the last shot killing him. All were fired from the front. … Continue reading →
…is condemning the persecu—I mean the prosecution—of Governor Rick Perry. As a commenter at Althouse wrote: If you’ve lost Jonathan Chait… In case you’ve forgotten who Jonathan Chait is, he’s a self-confessed Bush-hater par excellence: I hate President George W. … Continue reading →
The officer who stopped Michael Brown did not do so because he was a suspect in the convenience story robbery, but became suspicious during the course of the exchange with Brown: [Ferguson Police Chief] Jackson said the officer was aware … Continue reading →
Rick Perry becomes the latest in a long line of Republicans who have been the target of malicious prosecution for political reasons: Scott Walker, Tom DeLay, Ted Stevens. He won’t be the last. It is no accident whatsoever that it … Continue reading →
The Ferguson police have released this video of a convenience store robbery in which Michael Brown was suspected to have been the perpetrator. It occurred shortly before the fatal shooting. Dorian Johnson, the young man who was with Brown when … Continue reading →
I grew up in an area of New York that wasn’t especially high-crime, and my dealings with police tended to be limited to traffic stops. And yet I feared them because they had the power and I did not. And … Continue reading →
If you’re an illegal immigrant desirous of being certified a bona fide asylum seeker, go to New York for a hearing.
Continue reading →Hear, hear! Sessions actually seems to know something about political tactics and strategy (and what commenter “eric” would call “the activist game”). Which is more than I can say for most of the GOP. And although I’m not all that … Continue reading →
“Undocumented” ones. The transformation of our language from meaningful to propaganda on the issue of new arrivals to this country is pretty much complete. One would think the opposite of “legal immigrant” would be “illegal immigrant.” But “undocumented immigrant” seems … Continue reading →
How long has Congress been mulling over some sort of amnesty plan for illegal immigrants? A long time, certainly under several presidents, whether it’s called “amnesty” or whether euphemisms are used to substitute for the word. But there’s a reason … Continue reading →
For quite some time now we’ve been waiting for Obama’s other shoe to drop regarding amnesty. He’s been warning of us a big announcement, which most people (including me) have speculated will be to end the possibility of deportation for … Continue reading →
The decision in any appeal of Halbig—and therefore the ultimate fate of Obamacare—may rest on that question. The left would like to say it was all a huge oversight and more or less an unfortunate and careless typo or drafting … Continue reading →