Trump And The “Another Crime” Problem For all the former prosecutors on the payroll at MSNBC, the one thing that goes wholly unmentioned is that the “hush money” case against Trump for falsifying business records is a misdemeanor unless it’s in furtherance of another crime. But dreadful isn’t a synonym for criminal, and nothing about the terrible facts of the case […]
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Good News, Bad News and Confirmation Bias David French reflects on the Axios report that neither President Biden nor his senior advisors believe the polls that say he’s got campaign issues. After all, how could someone as worthy as Biden lose to someone as unworthy as Trump? I thought of 2012 when I read in an Axios report this week that “President […]
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Beware The Orthodoxy of Heterodoxy A two-day “festival” was held earlier this month in the bowels of hipsterville called “Dissident Dialogues.” It had been my plan to attend for a day, and I requested an agenda so I could decide this day to attend. I was told it would be forthcoming. It never was, so I never went. Fortunately, Cathy […]
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Education, If The Union Permits The obvious failings of public sector unionism aside, the union representing graduate students and staff at the University of California, a local of the United Auto Workers because the Teamsters were too busy that day, has authorized a strike. Not for pay. Not for benefits. For “free speech.” The union, U.A.W. 4811, represents about 48,000 […]
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Why Does Cy Vance Pander? In 2015, Cy Vance made a decision. His office, the New York County District Attorney’s office, would not prosecute Harvey Weinstein for the sexual assault of Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, despite their being a recording of Weinstein admitting his conduct.  Perhaps David Boies, who contributed $10,000 to Cy’s re-election campaign when he was running […]
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