A compromise has been reached – surprise, surprise (not) – but the details aren’t quite ironed out yet: Sen. Joe Manchin announced Wednesday that he came to an agreement with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on a reconciliation bill, after … Continue reading →
I remember, when the Hunter Biden laptop first came out shortly before the 2020 election, that I had a moment of thinking it might become a big scandal – which it deserved to be. But almost immediately the news was … Continue reading →
And not just the left – regular old Democrats who aren’t on the left but are shaped and molded by it love it, too. Many of my acquaintances have avidly watched the January 6th hearings, and what they seem to … Continue reading →
…and we’ve indeed been speaking of it lately, over and over and over – Steve Bannon has been convicted by a Washington DC jury of contempt of Congress. It’s the first such conviction since 1974, when Attorney General Richard Kleindienst … Continue reading →
Well, at least Zeldin gets to say “I told you so”: The man who allegedly tried to stab Republican candidate for New York governor Lee Zeldin with a bladed weapon during a campaign stop on Thursday was released from jail … Continue reading →
They were enlisted in a worthy cause – the cause of the left – and so their case has been dismissed: Nine members of far-left TV host Stephen Colbert’s production team were arrested on June 16th after refusing to leave … Continue reading →
Starring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar: As we reported earlier, socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made even more of a fool of herself than she normally does after trying to make an “arrest” video from the steps of the Supreme … Continue reading →
Commenter “JFM” writes: I’m very confused when people on the left start, in all media, talking about Trump as “lawless” and “ripping up the Constitution”. Where did he do that? When did he do this? And commenter “Wendy Laubach” adds: … Continue reading →
…for the moment, courtesy of Joe Manchin. Although Biden may try to muscle it through anyway, with that tried and true method of bypassing the legislature known as “executive action”: President Joe Biden vowed Friday to take “strong executive action” … Continue reading →
That’s persuasive, right? Feldman is emblematic of the decline of legal reasoning and of reasoning as a whole in academic life. Law schools have long been the bastion of the “critical” approach to scholarship and argument, beginning in the late … Continue reading →
Commenter “F” asked a question yesterday on the thread about the exchange between Bridges and Hawley concerning who can get pregnant: I think the question of violence is where Bridges wins the point. It is a dishonest point — Hawley … Continue reading →
Several people have recommended this piece by Bari Weiss. It’s the transcript of a speech she gave to the students at the new University of Austin (UATX), a school dedicated to old-fashioned things like free speech. An excerpt: Disinvitation—now called … Continue reading →