Canada’s Social Progressivism Boxes Itself in
[guest post by JVW] This is just a really sad story, as related by Wesley Smith at National Review Online: At least one transgendered individual has been legally euthanized because of profound regret...
View ArticleTrump Indicted Over Efforts to Steal Election
The indictment is here. UPDATE: Sincere question for those who think the government can’t prove Trump knowingly lied about the election: what sort of evidence would it take for you to agree that, in...
View ArticleThe Calvin Coolidge Century
[guest post by JVW] One hundred years ago today, August 2, 1923, President Warren G. Harding died at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco from a heart attack exacerbated by a bout with pneumonia. Three...
View ArticleWeekend Open Thread – Guest Bloggers in Secure Yet Undisclosed Locations
[guest post by JVW] With both guest bloggers on super-secret missions on behalf of brand awareness for Patterico’s Pontifications, this Weekend Open Thread might end up being somewhat slapdash and...
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More of the Republican Party’s ‘New Normal’
[guest post by Dana] Republican voters are the problem: Sycophant is an ugly word, but it isn’t ugly enough for Republicans in 2024. The judgment on Trump is, necessarily, a judgment on the Republican...
View ArticleThis Week in Education News
[guest post by JVW] In the run-up to our annual back-to-school season, let’s take a look at some issues pertainin’ to the learnin’ of our young’uns. First Period The Biden Administration is back in...
View ArticleMaking Lemonade from Lemons in San Francisco?
[guest post by JVW] Hats off to those great entrepreneurial Americans who can make a quick buck in the face of societal collapse: Last year, The Atlantic dubbed San Francisco a “failed city.” Earlier...
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Weekend Open Thread
[guest post by Dana] Let’s go! First news item Judge Chutkan cautions Trump: “Mr. Trump, like every American, has a First Amendment right to free speech, but that right is not absolute. In a criminal...
View ArticleConstitutional Vanguard: Fine, I’ll Write About the Federal Trump Indictment...
In case you were wondering what I have been doing with myself lately … With impeccable timing, I have chosen the eve of the issuance of the Georgia Trump indictment to publish … a 16,000 word essay I...
View ArticleTrump and 18 Others Indicted in Georgia
You can read and download the indictment here. I am still making my way through it. I may have more to say later.
View ArticleWhy “OH SO NOW TWEETING IS A CRIME?” Is a Dumb Comment
A short observation in response to the commentary I am seeing out there about how Fani Willis is criminalizing speech. People are citing, for example, paragraphs in the new indictment that characterize...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, “Inflation Reduction” Act!
[guest post by JVW] At The Spectator, Oliver Weisman reminds us that last year’s ridiculously-named Democrat spending orgy turned one year old a few days ago: The excuse for Biden’s latest bit of...
View ArticleFeminist Academic Chicksplains Men’s Problems
[guest post by JVW] Oh golly, boys, our toxic masculinity has drawn the attention of yet another ivy tower academic who self-identifies as female (as far as I am willing to confirm): “Niobe Way, a...
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Trump Has Fans
And some of those fans are being charged with criminal threats: Alvin, TX is about 30 minutes south of downtown Houston, Texas. Enjoy your fifteen minutes of fame, Abigail Jo Shry.
View ArticleWeekend Open Thread
[guest post by Dana] [Out of necessity, this is being written on Tuesday. So feel free to bring up anything that happened later in the week.] Let’s go! First news item Good! A Republican-aligned group...
View ArticleBiden in Maui: Let Me Tell You About My Exaggerated Fire Tragedy
[guest post by JVW] President Joe Biden ventured out to our fiftieth state today to try his hand at consoling the families impacted by the terrible Maui fires earlier this month. As is his wont, he...
View ArticleConstitutional Vanguard: In Which I Once Again Stand Up for the New York...
I continue to demonstrate an exceptional sense of timing, by using the date of the first Republican primary debate to publish another giant legal piece on a Trump indictment . . . the Bragg indictment....
View ArticlePre-Analysis and GOP Debate Open-Thread
[guest post by JVW] A whole mess of Republicans will take to the stage Wednesday night to argue over which one of them will be the last one to bow out of a primary which Donald J. Trump seems destined...
View ArticleVivek Ramaswamy Is a Stupid Idiot
This is the guy whose closing statement said the U.S. Constitution (written in 1787) is what won us the American Revolution (begun in 1775): The U.S. Constitution did not win us the American...
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Former President Donald Trump Arrested
[guest post by Dana] This afternoon in Georgia, Donald Trump was booked into the Fulton County Jail. He was fingerprinted and a mug shot was taken. He faces criminal charges over his efforts to...
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