In Chicago, a black man named Dexter Reed was killed by police after he shot one of them during a traffic stop. The media covered it in the usual manner: Three weeks ago, Dexter Reed out of Chicago shot by … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “Barry Meislin”] Scotland’s new hate-speech law has drawn quite a reaction: Entirely as predicted, Police Scotland has been deluged with vexatious and politically-driven ‘hate crime’ reports, with one top official complaining “we cannot cope.” Under the new … Continue reading →
Trump has taken an official position on abortion policy, which is that it should be left to the states to decide without any national policy. This is basically Dobbs, and it is in my opinion the correct legal stance. It … Continue reading →
Yes, the title of this post contains sarcasm. This 72-year-old woman’s crime appears to have been praying near the Capitol on J6, then entering the building through an open door, walking around for 10 minutes quite peacefully, and exiting. Horrors! … Continue reading →
Now that the amount of the bond Trump was required to post in the NY fraud case was reduced from utterly impossible to merely extremely difficult (and I believe unprecedented for an individual; correct me if I’m wrong on that), … Continue reading →
Jonathan Diller of the NYPD was shot by a career criminal with 21 arrests to his name: Diller, who left behind a wife and infant son, was shot to death by a recidivist; that is, a repeat criminal. But this … Continue reading →
The murder of 11-year-old Jayden Perkins has made me wonder about the punishment for murder in the state of Illinois, where the crime occurred. In Illinois, capital punishment was outlawed in 2011 under these circumstances: Democratic Governor Pat Quinn signed … Continue reading →
In my recent post about Dershowitz saying that he really might stop voting for Democrats because of the Biden administration’s stance on Israel in the Gaza war (in particular the US’s abstention in the UN), a number of people in … Continue reading →
And a family pays a terrible price for it: An 11-year-old Chicago boy died Wednesday [March 13] as he tried to protect his pregnant mother from her knife-wielding ex-boyfriend who was released from prison a day earlier. Crosetti Brand, 37, … Continue reading →
Part of the Democrats’ lawfare against Trump and the right is their decision some years ago (see this) to go after lawyers for Trump or Trumpian causes and make them afraid to defend him or give him legal advice. The … Continue reading →
Asking for what? Why, to be stolen, of course: Keith Ellison – to refresh your memory – is the current AG of Minnesota, an ex-Congressman, a convert from Catholicism to Islam, and was the special prosecutor in the Derek Chauvin … Continue reading →
The decision went like this: The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division agreed to block former President Donald Trump’s $464 million bond if he posts $175 within the next ten days for his New York civil … Continue reading →