As presidents go, Trump is harder to predict than most. Will he veto the continuing resolution budget bill? The Freedom Caucus will support him if he does: …[W]e’re going to back you up if you veto this — back you … Continue reading →
The yellow vest protestors of France are not a unitary movement. The majority are peaceful, but there’s a fringe group (right? left? anarchists?) who have been a great deal more violent, and it’s that latter group who have declared war … Continue reading →
The death and funeral of George H. W. Bush caused NY Times columnist Ross Douthat to write a piece called “Why We Miss the WASPs.” It contains the usual digs at Trump, of course, but it also expresses some un-PC … Continue reading →
Curiouser and curiouser: U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who is overseeing Michael Flynn’s case, demanded that the Special Counsel [Mueller] submit copies of FBI 302 reports from Flynn’s January 24th FBI interview as well as then-FBI Deputy Director … Continue reading →
Way back in 1996, when the Trump presidency was in the two-decades-distant future, Ruth Bader Ginsburg had this to say: The prospect remains that an overzealous prosecutor or investigator — aware that a person has committed some suspicious acts, but … Continue reading →
In the light of allegations from the left that Trump’s payments to Stormy Daniels vie Michael Cohen constituted a campaign law violation, this news is deeply ironic: Now Congress has agreed on a bill that members of Congress will be … Continue reading →
…says Vox’s Matthew Yglesias. Hey, why not? What could possibly go wrong? Oh, and if she’s not old enough—and she’s not—it’s time to “fix” the Constitution. Writes Yglesias: The constitutional prohibition on people under the age of 35 serving as … Continue reading →
Here’s how lawfare works when the FBI wants to get you: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who arranged the bureau’s interview with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 — the interview that … Continue reading →
The fixer couldn’t fix it for himself: Before leveling his sentence, Judge William Pauley said “Cohen pled guilt to a veritable smorgasbord of fraudulent conduct” and “lost his moral compass,” adding that “as a lawyer, Mr. Cohen should have known … Continue reading →
[See UPDATE at end of post.] …is described here: Only days ago, May had to withdraw a vote on her Brexit Withdrawal Agreement from Parliament because it was universally recognized that she would lose it. Bear in mind that this … Continue reading →
In his recent testimony before the House of Representatives, James Comey presented himself as being something like a sleepwalker—he remembers nothing, knows nothing, and cannot even speculate on things he was involved in, much less ones that involved others in … Continue reading →
Commenter “CatoRenasci” writes: Consider that urban areas have been more ‘liberal’ or ‘progressive’ or ‘radical’ (pick an adjective) since time immemorial – at least as far as we have any sort of reliable history: classical writers, both Greek and (especially) … Continue reading →