Swelwell saves House members the trouble of having to expel him from the House or defend him; he quits: Swalwell announced his resignation in a statement posted to his X account, while still denying some of the allegations made against … Continue reading →
I am not a tall woman. I’m medium-sized, so very medium-sized that at 5’4″ I fall very close to the “average” in the mathematical sense: The average height for women in the U.S. aged 20 years and older is 5 … Continue reading →
Accusers are coming out of the woodworks and staff are resigning from his campaign; see this and this. From the former: Rep. Eric Swalwell’s campaign for governor was reeling Friday after two news reports detailed accusations of sexual assault and … Continue reading →
This news is both sobering and unsurprising: Adult children vs. parents, siblings vs. siblings — calling quits on one’s kin seems increasingly common. In a 2025 YouGov poll of 4,395 US adults, nearly 4 in 10 respondents said they “no … Continue reading →
It’s a mark of how vile these laws are that the only dissent was Justice Jackson. From the Gorsuch-written opinion: Ms. Chiles [a therapist] does not question that Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy has some constitutionally sound applications. See Brief … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I’ve written many previous posts about the various cases against Bill Cosby.] Defendants need to be able to have access to evidence against them, and to be able to find witnesses for their side if such witnesses exist. Memory … Continue reading →
Chavez used to be the darling of the left, back when I was in law school. Now he’s apparently a pariah after being accused – long after his death – of having sexually abused young girls many years ago: The … Continue reading →
The US women’s hockey team won gold at the 2026 Olympics. The US men’s hockey team won gold at the 2026 Olympics. Both were invited by Trump to attend the SOTU speech. And there the resemblance ends. The women declined; … Continue reading →
Commenter “Niketas Choniates” makes a valid point: … [T]he Epstein correspondence has shown that our “elites” are morally bankrupt clowns who exploit their connections. They don’t have to be in a pedo ring to be unfit for what they are … Continue reading →
The terrible tragedy occurred in a small town in British Columbia, with at least seven victims dead at the school, and many more injured. Initial reports were coy: Authorities have only identified the shooter as a ‘female in a dress’. … Continue reading →
I’m referring to this: Newly unsealed Department of Justice documents reveal that in July 2006, then businessman Donald Trump was one of the first to call police to warn them about sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. The documents include a previously … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “Mike Plaiss.”] From an editorial in the WSJ: The Justice Department’s release of the so-called Epstein files has gone pretty much as skeptics warned. The feds published another three million pages on Friday. Such investigatory materials are … Continue reading →