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This video is just outrageous. Apparently Dearborn, Mich., is a lot like Saudi Arabia. Generally, you can’t sue cops personally for things they do in the performance of their duties. It’s called qualified immunity, but it is qualified. The defense of qualified immunity protects "government officials . . . from liability for civil damages insofar […]

In all likelihood, in the coming weeks the Justice Department will announce that they are suing to overturn Arizona’s illegal immigration law. One of the arguments that the department will almost certainly put forward is that Arizona’s law usurps federal authority with regard to immigration law. Hold that thought in your head for a moment. […]

It wasn’t unexpected today when President Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of command of the Afghanistan war effort. The president had every right to do it, and few will fault him for making the decision he did. At the same time, Obama “demoted” Gen. David Petraeus from his perch as head of U.S. Central Command […]

As I outlined in the post below, President Obama has every right to sack Gen. Stanley McChrystal. If that happens, what will be interesting to watch over the next several days and months is how McChrystal is treated by the media. Take the case of Gen. Eric Shinseki who was made a cause célèbre after […]

You can find the Rolling Stone article everyone’s talking about here. In the article we learn a lot of things we already know: Vice President Joe Biden is an idiot. Rolling Stone doesn’t realize that Biden is an idiot. Rolling Stone tries to make hay out of the fact that McChrystal and Biden disagree on […]

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 yesterday that the government can ban even “humanitarian” assistance to terrorist organizations. Eugene Volokh’s got a good summary post here, and you can click on the main site for quite a few more takes on the decision and read this short summary from Elliott Abrams. What was most interesting to […]

It was almost one of those “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is” moments. President Barack Obama was on ABC News’ “This Week” talking about his proposed health care when George Stephanopoulus asked him if the so-called individual mandate requiring everyone to purchase insurance was a tax. Now, via the Daily Caller, comes […]

This is a good read. To hear an ailing 82-year-old Thomas Edison speak, with the great inventor's voice, wheezy and high-pitched, growing husky and choked as he praised his good friend Henry Ford who stood alongside President Herbert Hoover on a stage on Oct. 21, 1929 is catching lightning in a bottle. Earlier that night, […]

When I was graciously offered the opportunity to no longer work for the San Diego Union-Tribune nearly a year ago, one of the conditions of receiving a meager severance package (designed in such a way to minimize the company’s tax liability while subsequently maximizing my own – an excellent move for the Platinum Equity owners) […]

Scroll down and watch the video if you’ve been relying on the mainstream media to tell you about Rep. Bob “Who are YOU?” Etheridge’s little self-control problem. In the wake of the video of an unhinged old man attacking a couple young, well-dressed young men for asking a Democrat if he supported the Obama agenda, […]