Before Russiagate, There Was Watergate
View original post The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President, by Geoff Shepard (Bombardier Books, 2021), 384 pages. There’s an old saying in legal circles: “A Continue Reading
The Return of the Law and Order Issue
View original post According to Gallup, on the issue of crime, President Joe Biden is 18 points underwater. While 57 percent of Americans disapprove of how he is handling crime, Continue Reading
Why Beto Might Win
View original post O’Rourke knows he can exploit Texans’ insecurity with their conservative image. This past month, amid great fanfare, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke announced he is running for governor Continue Reading
Dobbs v. Jackson: An Easy Opinion
View original post The rejection of a “compelling state interest” test will remove abortion from national politics. A simple Baltimore lawyer here tenders a short opinion to dispose of Dobbs Continue Reading
The Disunited States of America
View original post Two years ago, I walked into a café in Florence and said “Can I get an espresso?” The waitress replied, “No, no, here we say buongiorno first. We Continue Reading
Why We Should Envy France
View original post Éric Zemmour confirmed his status as a nationalist this week. The British press are ever-licking their chops to take it to the French, and the Times of Continue Reading
The Jobs Behind Successful Political Actions
View original post Organize Right is a regular column with not so much a beat as a meander on the subject of organizing: how the right does it, how the Continue Reading
Our Unrestrained Attorney General
View original post Merrick Garland has done nothing to show himself to be the moderator of partisanship some hoped he might be. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland (R) and FBI Director Continue Reading
Speaker Jim Banks? Speaker Donald Trump?
View original post Kevin McCarthy had something of a coming out moment this week. The House minority leader’s marathon, midnight hours speech panning the “Build Back Better” agenda put forward Continue Reading
Are Democrats Looking to the Lifeboats?
View original post The party should probably be worried about President Biden’s approval ratings. U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks with Vice President Kamala Harris in the South Court Auditorium Continue Reading