A celebration of Gwyneth Paltrow
Team Goop is victorious! In what will undoubtedly go down as the most pressing legal story of the week, Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski crash trial ended with the movie star prevailing over retired optometrist...
View ArticleWhen a Democrat was indicted for paying off his mistress
Both legal lions and laymen can be excused for having doubts about the first indictment of a former president, as we toggle back and forth between the historical significance and the lurid facts...
View ArticleAlvin Bragg’s chutzpah
On the day after District Attorney, Alvin Bragg confirmed that a grand jury had indicted former president, Donald Trump, his office’s general counsel made a bizarre request of three House Republican...
View ArticleThe case against lawyers
Have you had your fourth Covid booster shot yet? They are being very quiet about it these days. I used to be bombarded with injunctions to attend my local clinic, but not any more. This is a shame...
View ArticleThe rule of law after the Trump arrest
The rule of law, which seems so precious to holier-than-thou Democrats these days, depends above all on one thing: a belief among the majority of us that while no one is above the law, it will be...
View ArticleMaryland prioritizes social justice over stopping murders
Baltimore has the highest murder rate in the country, so one would imagine the state’s legislators would be seeking ways to get tough on violent criminals and safeguard the city’s residents. Instead,...
View ArticleClarence Thomas is taking one for the team
Did Clarence Thomas do anything wrong in accepting gifts from a wealthy Republican? Or is he the victim of years of pent-up anger at the Supreme Court by Democrats? Yes. According to an investigation...
View ArticleWould Bragg have indicted anyone other than Donald Trump?
Alvin Bragg has made good on his campaign promise to hold former president Donald J. Trump “accountable” by indicting him under New York law for thirty-four felony counts of falsifying business...
View ArticleThe security state says jump. The media asks ‘how high?’
The tacit alliance between operatives of the national security state and corporate media burst into view last week when the New York Times and the Washington Post did the FBI’s job for it by tracking...
View ArticleAlan Dershowitz: why Newsmax has a stronger case than Fox
Dominion did not lose three-quarters of a billion dollars from Fox’s alleged defamation. It’s unlikely they actually lost very much at all; indeed they probably gained considerable credibility and...
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Who is the real Anna Delvey?
Everything is going according to Anna Delvey’s plan. If you’ve read anything about her, you probably think her plan was all about money; to extract millions of dollars from unwitting marks before...
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Is Abby Grossberg’s lawyer OK?
Yesterday, Cockburn’s colleague Amber Athey wrote a story about Abby Grossberg, the former Tucker Carlson booker suing Carlson, his producers and Fox News due to the sexism, bullying and antisemitism...
View ArticleThe Squad stands alone on Jordan Neely’s death
Tensions ran high this week after Jordan Neely, a homeless street performer with a record of violence, was killed by Daniel Penney, a twenty-four-year-old Marine. Penney placed Neely in a chokehold on...
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My many run-ins with Jeffrey Epstein
In Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1991 movie Barton Fink, a writer in pursuit of the big story accidentally winds up befriending a serial murderer who lives next door. That dark comedy’s ironic juxtaposition...
View ArticleJordan Neely and the system the left built
Since the death of Jordan Neely on the New York City subway, the media elite have rushed to maintain that he died not just from a chokehold, but the systemically racist, capitalist, selfish system...
View ArticleTrump found liable of sexual battery and defamation in E. Jean Carroll case
A New York federal jury has found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against the author E. Jean Carroll. The jury ordered the former president to pay Carroll $5 million in...
View ArticleDershowitz: the Trump-Carroll verdict is a Rorschach test
The mixed verdict delivered by the jury in the Donald Trump civil rape case will be interpreted differently by those who support and oppose the former president. On the main count that Trump raped...
View ArticleTrump is liable of sexual abuse. Will that stop him?
Can a man who has been found “civilly liable” for sexual abuse in court be elected president of the United States? In a normal world, such a verdict might reasonably be expected to torpedo any...
View ArticleDaniel Penny and the trouble with ‘have-a-go heroes’
I have always liked the phrase “have-a-go hero.” It sums up a certain type of person who can emerge from nowhere and coat their name with honor. One thinks, for instance, of John Smeaton, the baggage...
View ArticleDaniel Penny’s mistake was to resist mayhem
New York City seems like a gag that’s gone too far. “First, we’ll release all the criminals because too many black bodies are in prison! Then we’ll denounce the police as Nazis and refuse to prosecute...
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