WHAT THE HUNTER BIDEN CONVICTION DOES AND DOES NOT MEAN. The Wilmington, Delaware, trial of Hunter Biden on federal gun charges ended in the least surprising way possible: conviction on all counts. Even though there had been some fanciful talk about the possibility of jury nullification in Biden Country, the jurors quickly found the younger Biden […]
The funny thing about name-calling is that the more it is done, the less insulting it is. And that is doubly true for those who call their political opponents fascists. The elections for the Parliament of the European Union were notable for the increase in support for so-called far-right parties such as the National Rally […]
Its practice of coercive power at home might assure its power at home, but the Chinese Communist Party’s practice of coercive power abroad often weakens its political interests abroad. Just as Xi Jinping places far too much confidence in Mao Zedong’s statist economic theories, so also does he place too much faith in Mao’s lesson […]
California Democrats are treating crime as a political game, not a serious issue that needs to be addressed. California Democrats are playing legislative games to try and tank the effort to allow voters to potentially repeal Proposition 47. Prop 47 prevented prosecutors from charging grand theft, shoplifting worth less than $950, and drug possession as […]
“Election denial” is supposedly a grave sin that places a public figure outside of the bounds of acceptability. Remember how the news media briefly convinced businesses that they had to stop funding “election-denying” lawmakers. But the case against former President Donald Trump eventually boiled down to weaponized election-denial. New York’s prosecutors and their defenders in […]