[UPDATE: Professor Jacobson will be appearing on the Laura Ingraham show on Fox News at approximately 10:45 Eastern time.] Professor Jacobson of Legal Insurrection (a blog for which I also write periodically) has announced that there’s a campaign to get … Continue reading →
What’s happening now in the United States, at an ever-increasing pace, is rule by mob. But it’s a special sort of mob. The internet and social media, especially Twitter, facilitates the process. Its main practitioners are leftists, mostly but not … Continue reading →
I’ve been reading a bunch of essays about the future of New York (see this and this, for example). They are grim. And how could they not be? Now, you may say “who cares, they made their bed and let … Continue reading →
Grant Napear, longtime announcer for the Sacramento Kings, learned the hard way what is unacceptable speech in today’s America: Grant Napear resigned as the Kings’ TV play-by-play announcer and was fired from KHTK radio in Sacramento on Tuesday. Napear was … Continue reading →
Here’s an article from Time entitled “Up to 80% of COVID-19 Infections Are Asymptomatic, a New Case Report Says.” Sounds as though that’s good news, right? Ah, but Time doesn’t think so: The research shows just how prevalent asymptomatic transmission … Continue reading →
I bring you the following documents to peruse and read at your leisure, and be sure to fortify your stomach before you do. The first is Michael Flynn’s petition to withdraw his guilty plea, which describes (in summary, anyway) what … Continue reading →
That’s a liberal politician’s specialty. The COVID pandemic and the related shutdowns are seen by the left as an opportunity to get in their idea of election “reform”: On Sunday, the Republican National Committee (RNC), the National Republican Congressional Committee … Continue reading →
From Andrew C. McCarthy: Well, the mystery is solved, at least if you can believe what the usual sieves — those courageously anonymous “former U.S. officials” — have told their notetakers at the Washington Post. As I surmised in last … Continue reading →
I think his instincts are correct on this: “People say that’s a very distinct possibility. It’s standard. And we’re going to put out the fires. We’re not going to close the country. We’re going to put out the fires,” Trump … Continue reading →
Russiagate/Spygate/Obamagate is as unwieldy as the names given it. Even though I’ve spent an inordinate number of hours trying to understand its development and steps, and all its different parts and motivations and characters, I haven’t mastered its complexities. And … Continue reading →
I’ve been somewhat puzzled by the extreme reaction of the leftist governors to COVID. Don’t get me wrong; I think I understand what’s behind it: some combination of extreme eagerness to control the peons under their rule, and exploitation and … Continue reading →
I cannot state strongly enough how unmoored these actions are from the ordinary safeguards our legal system has attempted to provide defendants: In the case against Michael Flynn the court appointed amicus curiae, essentially a court appointed outside lawyer enlisted … Continue reading →