Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
While Bookworm is away at Disneyland, she’s tasked me to fill in for her. I am going to try and do so without any mention of the names Trump, Cruz, Sanders or Hildabeast (more than once). Instead this will be a historical post, but one that I hope resonates still today.
Continue readingAs those of you who are lawyers or who have served on a jury know, I can’t talk about the case beyond saying that it’s a criminal case. In any event, I don’t have anything to say. Today was devoted to jury selection and it was a . . .
Continue readingBoehner was merely an effective manager, rather than an effective conservative Andrew Klavan is kind enough to point out that Boehner was in some measure a very effective House Majority Leader: I can’t help but notice that under Boehner — and largely because of Boehner, because Boehner outsmarted President Obama in the
Continue readingOnce again, my post caption is misleading. This post has nothing to do with Cinco de Mayo. It just has to do with all the fascinating stories I’ve read in the last few days. These are in no particular order, so you’ll have to read all the way down to make
Continue readingOne of the reasons I’ve been able to be such a prodigious blogger is that my clients all vanished with the recession. Since Mr. Bookworm is a good breadwinner — something for which I am always grateful — in the past few years, I haven’t made any real effort to
Continue readingSince you’re all very well-informed, it won’t be news to you that Eric Holder’s Justice Department, in yet another effort to frustrate a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request about Fast & Furious documents, claims that Eric Holder’s communications with both his wife, a private practice physician, and his mother are
Continue readingIt’s official: Eric Holder has resigned. NPR, to which Drudge linked, has a surprisingly negative assessment, since it begins its report, not by painting him in glowing terms, but by detailing the many scandals and conflicts attached to his very long run as attorney general. My personal sense is that Holder sees
Continue readingAs I said, today I got to hear Daniel Hannan speak as part of promoting his new book, Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World. I have my autographed copy in hand, and am look forward reading it. To the extent Hannan’s talk was a preview of
Continue readingJeffrey Toobin shot to national fame during the OJ trial, when he broke the story about the “race card.” For New Yorker readers, he speaks ex cathedra on all legal issues. For people who pay attention to the law, he’s a nincompoop. Ann Althouse just caught Toobin in a major
Continue readingMitch McConnell is too often a GOP stalwart (as opposed to a conservative) for my taste, but when he’s good, he’s very, very good. He was very, very good this morning, as he attacked Harry Reid’s attempt to change Senate rules so that only 51 votes are needed to get
Continue readingNancy Pelosi, before she drank too deep of the Kook-Aid: It’s a reminder, of course, that the Democrats don’t have any fixed principles that they routinely apply to all situations. Their sole, naked goal, is total victory and control. Hat tip: Sadie
Continue readingTo those few of you reading this who are conservatives who managed to survive Harvard Law School, my apologies. But I have to say, having read this, it’s obvious that Texas’s Wendy Davis is a typical Harvard Law School grad: thin-skinned, unprincipled, arrogant, anti-constitutional, and ill-informed. Oh, and judging by
Continue readingI wrote a few days ago about my liberal friend who was shocked by the way the judicial system treated a friend of hers who got arrested for allegedly doing a bad thing. I have absolutely no idea whether the guy is guilty or innocent. This post posits all three
Continue readingI had a less than pleasant experience today, which reminds me why I don’t really want to do legal work anymore. Briefly, last week I submitted a draft document to two lawyers with whom I work. The brief itself had to be filed today. I finally heard back from one
Continue readingNobody believes more strongly in defense attorneys than Progressives. This is ironic, because the whole point of defense counsel is to be a bulwark against Big Government. I was reminded of this fact when one of my children, out of the blue, wondered how defense attorneys could bear to represent
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