There is a significant correlation between a child having two parents, regardless of whether they are of different sexes or the same sex, and success. Likewise, there is a correlation between having one parent and a child living a future of poverty. Nicholas Kristof calls this the “privilege” liberals ignore.

We are often reluctant to acknowledge one of the significant drivers of child poverty — the widespread breakdown of family — for fear that to do so would be patronizing or racist. It’s an issue largely for working-class whites, Blacks and Hispanics, albeit most prevalent among African Americans. But just as you can’t have a serious conversation about poverty without discussing race, you also can’t engage unless you consider single-parent households. After all: Continue reading →

According to her campaign mailer, she’s a nurse practitioner and mother of two kids running as a Democrat for the 57th District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. According to the New York Times, she’s the victim of the illegal violation of her privacy.

But according to the Washington Post, this candidate for office has a side hustle doing internet porn with her husband, a lawyer. Continue reading →

To no one’s surprise, Trump’s lawyer in the Jack Smith January 6 case, John Lauro, has moved for Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself based upon gratuitous statements made during her sentencing of other January 6 defendants.

Fairness and impartiality are the central tenets of our criminal justice system. Both a
defendant and the public are entitled to a full hearing, on all relevant issues, by a Court that has not prejudged the guilt of the defendant, and whose neutrality cannot be reasonably questioned.

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At least not here. Today is the 22nd anniversary of 9/11. I had no clue how I would deal with it this year, particularly after last year. Then I turned on 60 Minutes last night to see video and images that brought it all back. Some I had never seen before. Some I had. All reminded me that it just happened yesterday, at least in my mind.

Comment or not. Care or not. I care. And even if this has grown tiresome to you, I will not forget.

No one has followed lawsuits by male students seeking relief from the denial of due process in campus Title IX sex tribunals more closely than KC Johnson. As a result, KC has watched as certain trends developed. They’re imperfect as a predictor, but pretty darn good. Most significantly, they are not the predictors that law would expect or, in a better system, allow. But they emerge nonetheless, in all their harsh ugliness and cold reality.

For example, Obama and Biden appointed judges are so supportive of female students’ claims of rape that they are extremely disinclined to reverse because the male student was railroaded into conviction. They’re inclined to believe that colleges aren’t anti-male, but just anti-rapist and pro-“survivor.”  They will bend over backwards to come up with some ridiculous excuse to rule against the male student, no matter how badly his due process rights were denied or how flagrant the violation. Continue reading →

When the government tells you, a private enterprise, that it would really like you to do something, the “or else” is always implied. “Nice internet you got there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it,” is the threat with plausible deniability of mob bosses. And government as well, even when you agree with what the government wants or believe that the government’s actions are in the public interest when it comes to speech the government does not want out there.

This was the point of Judge Terry Doughty when he enjoined the Biden administration from asking nicely that social media platforms remove medical information it felt was false or dangerous. And the Fifth Circuit has now affirmed Judge Doughty’s injunction. Continue reading →

Welcome to September, and more importantly, welcome to football season! Though the temperatures are still in the 80s in Tennessee, we’ve finally got college football in our lives again as of last weekend. By the time you read this, the NFL will have completed its season opener when the Detroit Lions play the Kansas City Chiefs.

Living in East Tennessee for the majority of my life, and Knoxville by extension, usually means “football day” for me is Saturdays when my University of Tennessee Volunteers take the field. I understand not all of you are blessed to have an incredible SEC football team to cheer on, so I thought today would be a great time to give my Unsolicited Opinions on College Football and the NFL for this season. Continue reading →

Rarely would anyone ever learn of such a claim if it even happened, as lawyers are wont to harass jurors after a trial even if the verdict included an unpleasant number of words, but it happened in Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial.

The police in South Carolina said on Thursday that they were investigating whether a court clerk improperly communicated with jurors who later convicted Alex Murdaugh for the murder of his wife and son in one of the most famous criminal trials in the state’s history. Continue reading →

Special Counsel nee United States Attorney David Weiss has advised Judge Maryellen Noreika of the intent to indict Biden for falsely representing on his gun permit application that he was not, at the time, using drugs. He was, of course, as he has readily admitted, but the government had previously deemed his violation sufficiently trivial, and his conduct otherwise unconcerning, as to warrant a two-year diversion program rather than prosecution. And in the meantime, the charge appears unconstitutional under Bruen.

Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has taken to the media to argue his client’s cause, both that there was a deal struck which, although not having reached fruition, was signed and sealed as between Biden and the government, and that the impetus for this shift in the government’s action is political, the hue and cry from those calling it a sweetheart deal for a president’s son rather than some damn fine defense lawyering. Continue reading →

Having long been vociferous in my condemnation of excessive sentences for crimes ranging from drugs to murder, I come at this issue with far cleaner hands than most. Unsurprisingly, people who were chanting “if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime,” have suddenly gotten religion when it comes to the J6 defendants.

Ethan Nordean, 32, of Auburn, Washington, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Joseph Biggs, 39, of  Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Zachary Rehl, 38, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Dominic Pezzola, 45, of Rochester, New York, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Now, Enrique Tarrio, 39, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Continue reading →