Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential elections, 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Michael Cohen was back in court this week and it did not go well. The former fixer for Donald Trump was in court seeking a reduction in his federal sentence and to answer for his use of Google’s AI chatbot to submit arguments with fake case authority. However, things went off the rails when his […]
The “Perversity” of Michael Cohen: Federal Judge Denounces Cohen as a Serial Perjurer
25 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column on Fox.com for the hearing this week on the corruption scandal involving the Biden family. For years, the Democrats have opposed any effort to investigate the Bidens, including as part of the current impeachment inquiry. Various members misrepresented my earlier testimony during the hearing on the basis for the impeachment inquiry. […]
The Dripping Away of the Democratic Party: Sir Thomas More and the Biden Corruption Scandal
23 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
I am no fan of Trump. No amount of good policies can make up his manifest psychological flaws. I’d take a zombie Biden over a robust Trump anyday. But Trump has won the GOP nomination for President, and has a better than even chance of winning in November. This can be quite baffling to people […]
Why conservatives like Trump
12 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in the Hill on the real possibility of a federal trial of former president Donald Trump just before or even through the 2024 election. The claim that this schedule is the result of treating Trump like other criminal defendants is increasingly dubious given statements of courts and the Special Counsel. Here […]
Nightmare Scenario: How a Trump Trial Could Now Run Up to (or Through) the 2024 Election
12 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Joe Biden is now the most unpopular President in US post-WWII history at this stage of the Presidency, being 1140 days in, as analysed by the FiveThirtyEight site. The following figures for each President is the difference between their approval ratings and disapproval rating, which you can in more detail (including graphically) at the link. […]
Like vs. Cringe
11 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Special Counsel David Weiss has filed a blistering opposition to the motion to dismiss by Hunter Biden in California that cites his own book and conflicting statements as creating “nothing more than a house of cards.” The filing (below) shows how Hunter’s claims (repeated by many in the media) collapse under even cursory review in […]
“Patently False”: Special Counsel Files Blistering Reply to Hunter Biden Motion to Dismiss
10 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2024 presidential election, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
In the last few years, especially after I started writing for this blog, I got more than a few comments about the need for bi-partisanship, not hating out ideological, let alone political opponents. What was notable about this was that they all came from the Right of the political spectrum. The Left seem quite happy […]
Not Bridgeable
07 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding controversy surrounding the disqualification of Fani Willis and Nathan Wade. In today’s legislative hearing in Atlanta, counsel Ashleigh Merchant testified that cellphone records on one occasion show “pings” on Wade’s cellphone from his home to the vicinity of Willis’s home followed by a […]
Of Pings and Prosecutors: The Spectacular Imposition of the Willis-Wade Testimony
07 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election, regressive left, rule of law
Below is my column in USA Today on the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court to reject the disqualification of former president Donald Trump from the 2024 election. Some Democrats are now seeking to resume the effort through Congress to prevent voters from being able to vote for the leading candidate for the presidency. Here […]
A Moment of Supreme Clarity: How the Court Delivered a Blow of the Lumberjack School of Constitutional Law
06 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Calling it “one on a huge list of priorities,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) announced that he will be reintroducing a prior bill with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to disqualify not just Trump but a large number of Republicans from taking office. The alternative, it appears, is unthinkable: allowing the public to…
Raskin and the Agents of Chaos: Democrats Prepare to Resume Disqualification Efforts in Congress
03 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Below is a slightly expanded version of my column on Fox.com on the attacks on the Court for granting review of the immunity challenge brought by former president Donald Trump. The scheduling of oral argument has unleashed the familiar voices against the justices and allegations of political machinations. The claims of “slow walking” the appeal […]
No, the Court is Not “Slow Walking” the Trump Immunity Case
03 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, television, TV shows Tags: 2024 presidential election
Bill Maher’s 8½-minute monologue, largely about the advanced age of Joe Biden, aired on Real Time last night. His point: don’t let the opposition define you, and be who you really are. In Biden’s case, that’s being old, and Biden should, says Maher, “own it.” I’m not sure that would really work, though. Americans watch Biden, […]
Bill Maher’s weekly monologue
01 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in the New York Post on the closed door deposition of Hunter Biden. After years of conflicting and evasive responses on these corruption allegations, Hunter Biden is now faced with a moment of truth.
A Moment of Truth: Five Questions for Hunter Biden
29 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted review of the presidential immunity question, but set an expedited schedule for the review of the question with oral argument scheduled for April. Former president Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that “Legal Scholars are extremely thankful for the Supreme Court’s Decision today to take up Presidential Immunity.” As I […]
“Craven” and “Insurrectionists”: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Other Denounce the Supreme Court for Granting Review of Presidential Immunity
27 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
There is a lot of chatter this morning about the interview of Hunter Biden with Axios before his appearance in Congress for testimony on the alleged corrupt activities of his family. The interview has powerful moments as Hunter describes his struggle with addiction and the pressure that he feels to stay sober in light of […]
Hunter Blows Away His Own Counsel’s Sobriety Defense
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