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Weirdo O’Rourke
Friends of the young Bill Clinton and Barack Obama spoke of the special glow of promise they had about them, even back in their early twenties. Angels sat on their shoulders. History gave them a wink and said, “Hey, good lookin’, I’ll be back to pick you up later.”
Robert O’Rourke? Not so much. He ...
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Judge Barrett’s Dissent in Second Amendment Case
Rickey I. Kanter pleaded guilty to one count of federal mail fraud for falsely representing that his company’s therapeutic shoe inserts were Medicare-approved and for billing Medicare on that basis. Both federal law and Wisconsin law bar a convicted felon from possessing a firearm.
On Friday, a Seventh ...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Bartending Helped Her Recognize Cohen’s Lies
She's not a fan.
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The Bogus Lawsuit against Remington
Rule No. 1 of tort law: The bad guy is the one with the most money to pay you.
On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza murdered 26 people, 20 of them schoolchildren ages six and seven.
Lanza killed himself, too. Can’t sue him.
Lanza had a history of mental illness — a long one. He’d been treated under the ...
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The Connecticut Supreme Court Just Placed the Firearms Industry under Legal Threat
Over the weekend, my colleague Kevin Williamson wrote an outstanding piece illuminating the ideology and opportunism behind a Connecticut Supreme Court opinion holding that the manufacturer of the semi-automatic rifle used in the Sandy Hook shooting may be held liable for violating state unfair-trade-practices ...
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Democrats Aren’t Rushing to Defend Chelsea Clinton
Making the click-through worthwhile: some tough questions for Democrats and whether they’re ever willing to tell the progressive grassroots something that they don’t want to hear, Beto O’Rourke’s fundraising mojo doesn’t skip a beat from 2018, some horrific news from Facebook, and Amy Klobuchar tells us ...
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McCain at Annapolis
President Trump has been doing a lot of tweeting today -- against TV programs, companies, and other things that have incurred his displeasure. These tweets make for interesting reading. One of them is this:
So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) “last in his class” (Annapolis) John McCain that sent ...
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Why Did Ben Sasse Vote to Uphold the National Emergency?
Nebraska GOP senator Ben Sasse has been lambasted by many of his Trump-skeptical fans in the conservative movement for voting Thursday to uphold the national emergency declared by President Trump.
A month ago, Sasse issued a statement, saying:
We absolutely have a crisis at the border, but as a ...
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Opioids and Mexican Drug Cartels: Worse Living through Chemistry
On February 12, Joaquin Guzman Loera, a.k.a. “El Chapo,” was convicted of multiple crimes related to running the Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexico’s largest. Thirteen days before his conviction, authorities seized enough of the synthetic opioid called fentanyl for 100 million lethal doses. It was hidden in a ...
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