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 →
I guess the pressure to resign was finally too much for Johnson: After resisting calls to step down for nearly two days, Johnson admitted to the world’s media outside No. 10 Downing Street in London that “it is clearly now … Continue reading →
Was it really the scandals that brought Boris Johnson down? Or was it the disappointment over his weakness as a leader and his failure to deliver much of anything beyond Brexit that would differentiate him sharply from Labour? I think … Continue reading →
It looks grim for him, but who knows? The rodents are deserting what looks to be a sinking ship, though: It is looking increasingly unlikely Johnson can withstand this onslaught of resignations, prompted by yet another scandal. This latest scandal … Continue reading →
The big news of the last two days is Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the January 6th committee on all the awful things Trump did, or what others said he did, or what she says others said he did. Andrew C. … Continue reading →
Satire is best when it’s closest to the absurd truth. “Dems Pause January 6 Hearings To Call For Insurrection”: Democrats have temporarily pushed pause on the January 6th hearings in order to lead an insurrection against the federal government. “On … Continue reading →
In a vote that was telegraphed in advance by the unusual leak, SCOTUS has overruled Roe and Casey, thus ending federal control over the states’ ability to set their own abortion laws. My original prediction for Dobbs prior to the … Continue reading →
The first is France: The left won a lot more seats. A new party, or really a new party coalition called “Nupes,” united the Socialists, Communists, hard left and greens, won somewhere between 149-200 seats, which is a lot more … Continue reading →