Corroborating witnesses, due process, and timely reporting are still necessary. This is difficult in such matters because the abuse is usually committed in private. But without these norms guilt and innocence become arbitrary and the entire legal system become a tool for personal and political abuse. Yes, some of the guilty will go free and unpunished, but that is a price we pay for the presumption of innocence.
Read MoreThe cause, which is usually a permanently revolutionary one, always matters more than any individual’s possible innocence. You are, in fact, always guilty before being proven innocent. You always have to prove a negative. And no offense at any point in your life is ever forgotten or off the table.”
Read More“First the #MeToo movement, which mostly has been a force for good, is entering its moral-panic phase. “
Read MoreIf there was ever a case to be made that politics has replaced religion as the preferred faith of the left it is the use of the word ‘believe’ in determining legal liability. They believe because they want to believe. They want to believe the opposition is so sinister and evil that no evidence is required.
Read MoreThe 2018 midterms are an important test. Was the humiliating loss of Hillary to Trump only because of her incompetence and corruption or is the party itself out of touch? The House races are the first opportunity to begin recovering from this loss. If the Democrats fail to take the House, it will be a far more devastating defeat than losing to Donald Trump.
Read MoreThese movements gained a power that is too seductive. Like any power that is poorly defined it is subject to abuse as the Senate Democrats have proven. By hijacking the #MeToo movement in their shameless pursuit of political power they have destroyed the movement’s credibility.
Read MoreThe tariffs and the growing debt are threats, but bull markets do not require perfection. They just require sound fundamentals and a dearth of alternative investments.
Read MoreCollege has largely become an over priced trade school. Demonization has been substituted for understanding; virtue signaling has been substituted for humility.
Read More“The accuser has to prove the allegation in a court of law or in some other venue where the accused can challenge the facts. Otherwise we have a Jacobin system of justice in which “J’accuse” becomes the standard and anyone can be ruined on a whim or a vendetta.”
Read MoreDonald Trump is the devil, removing any need for rationality, morality or honesty from the resistance movement. The evil of Donald Trump is required to justify the batshit behavior we have witnessed at the Kavanaugh hearing.
Read More“What can’t be stressed enough about what happened in 2008 is that for economies to grow and markets to rise, it’s necessary that the mediocre and lousy constantly be replaced by the good and brilliant. “
Read MoreThe belief in a ‘general will’ or the ‘people’s will’ is a myth. It is the calling card of the progressives as well as the socialists and Mussolini’s brand of fascism. We are a collection of interests and factions and the constitution is a system to balance those interests, not to ignore them or oppress them.
Read MoreWhat is the difference between populism and democracy? What if the populist movement is not nativist or anti-pluralistic, but in favor of restoring the right of free speech to illiberal college campuses with their stifling political correctness, and abject intolerance?
Read More“The California Teachers Association (CTA) boasts a stunning 325,000 members. Their political clout is no small matter, since this one union from one state has “spent more in political campaigning over the last decade than the pharmaceutical industry, oil industry, and tobacco industry—combined.”
Read More“The only way to undo this “vast blunder,” says Mr. Gilder, is to forgive student loans across the board and “extract the money from all the college endowments and funds that were used to just create useless departments and political campaigns.”
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