“I do not think that a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case based on the evidence before the Committee. A ‘he said, she said’ case is incredibly difficult to prove. But this case is even weaker than that,” submits Rachel Mitchell in a five-page-long memo obtained by The Washington Post. Below are 12 massive inconsistencies listed […]
Focus on the Bigger Constitutional Issues
Certainly, many Americans must be thinking that there is something much more important at stake here than what did or did not happen at some house in a D.C. suburb in the summer of 1982. Any of us would be forgiven for thinking that, Francis Menton writes in the Manhattan Contrarian. The Answer: A Simple […]
The Deep Flaws in Dr. Ford’s Account
In what was Republicans’ one and only chance to have questioned Christine Blasey Ford, Brett Kavanaugh’s principal accuser, they failed to highlight the deep flaws in Dr. Ford’s account. A lawyer, Andrew C. McCarthy points out, could have been completely respectful of Dr. Ford’s emotional distress and still have asked elementary questions. Elementary Questions Not […]
The Stakes Go to the Core of Our Country’s Principles
Finally, the Kavanaugh/Ford spectacle is over. Ms. Ford was unable to muster evidence on her claim of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh. In a powerful statement, Judge Kavanaugh adamantly and categorically denied the charges by Ms. Ford. In an interview last Monday, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski noted: “We are now in a place where it’s […]
VIDEO: Lindsey Graham Defends Brett Kavanaugh at Hearing
Why the Kavanaugh Case Would Be Thrown Out of Court
Today’s Senate proceedings are not about guilt or innocence, Andrew C. McCarthy explains reminds readers in NRO. They are about qualification. The proceedings are about Kavanaugh’s suitability to sit as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Period. The objective is to give the Senate — first the Judiciary Committee and then the full chamber […]
“America Was Never That Great”
These words, spoken by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo during a campaign speech he gave in August, are indicative of the left’s hate of America and its self-congratulatory lifestyle, writes Shelby Steele in the WSJ. Hate is a license, explains Mr. Steele, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, who specializes in the study of […]
Economic Freedom on the Rise in the U.S.
Worth noting, reports the Cato Institute, is that the United States has returned to the list of top 10 nations for economic freedom in 2016 after an absence of several years. The foundations of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, and open markets. As Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek have stressed, freedom […]
Fundamentally Changing America: How Obama Won
By any traditional economic metric, President Obama’s tenure in the White House was mostly a failure, Victor Davis Hanson outlines in American Greatness. The economy under Obama, in a new first, never hit annualized growth of 3 percent. Obamacare, Obama’s signature domestic policy caused chaos. Millions lost their coverage and doctors, and paid far more […]
A Summer of Sunshine for U.S. Economy
The U.S. has not seen anything like this in a long time: The economy is faring better than it has in a generation, with simultaneous gains among various demographic groups, reports the WSJ. Older workers, women, minorities, seniors and the less-educated all are faring better in the labor force today than they did under President […]
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