BREAKING: Senate Votes Against Witnesses and Documents.
Related (From Ed): Senate Sets Wednesday Acquittal Vote In Trump Impeachment Trial.
Archive for 2020
January 31, 2020
PURE IMAGINATION: Willy Wonka Prequel to Feature a Woman as Title Character?
THEIR FAITH IN THE PUBLIC IS TOUCHING: Corona says it’s not concerned about customers confusing the beer with the virus.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Elizabeth Warren Vows to Let a ‘Young Trans Person’ Choose Her Education Secretary.
NIGEL FARAGE GIVES LBC A TOUR OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ON HIS LAST DAY IN STRASBOURG (Video):
Exit quote from this LBC (“Leading Britain’s Conversation”) video: “Somehow in 20 years they haven’t corrupted me, but that’s because I lived a pretty louche lifestyle already.”
Related: Brexit news: Union Jack flag comes down as Britain’s time in EU comes to an end.
STACY MCCAIN: The News They Won’t Report.
RETROACTIVELY WOKE IS THE WOKEST WOKE: ‘Right Side of History’: Taylor Swift Regrets Not Opposing Trump in 2016, New Documentary Reveals.
BUMPED WITH UPDATE AT BOTTOM:
LAWS ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE: Hilary Edition. As Tyler O’Neil has reported, Clinton has twice refused to accept service of Tulsi Gabbard’s defamation lawsuit, trying to weasel her way out of a legal battle.
The New York Post also reported that:
[Gabbard’s lawyer] said their process server first attempted to effect service at Clinton’s house in Chappaqua on Tuesday afternoon — but was turned away by Secret Service agents. The agents directed the server to Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, who on Wednesday claimed at his Washington, DC, firm, Williams & Connolly, that he was unable to accept service on Clinton’s behalf.”
Here’s the thing. She had her Arkansas law license reinstated last May. But the Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct state that:
Rule 8.4. Misconduct.
It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to: (a) violate or attempt to violate the rules of professional conduct, knowingly assist or induce another to do so, or do so through the acts of another; (b) commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects; (c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; (d) engage in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice; (e) state or imply an ability to influence improperly a government agency or official; or to achieve results by means that violate the Rules of Professional Conduct or other law; or (f) knowingly assist a judge or judicial officer in conduct that is a violation of applicable rules of judicial conduct or other law.
Seems to me that dodging service of a complaint might violate sections (c) and (d), no?
**UPDATE: Someone explained the law to The Smartest Woman Ever:
“A lawyer for Hillary Clinton has finally accepted legal documents in connection with a $50 million defamation lawsuit filed by 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii congresswoman’s lawyer told Fox News on Thursday night.”
FOR PJMEDIA/TOWNHALL VIP MEMBERS: The Truth About Trump’s Middle East Peace: It’s the Foundation of an Anti-Iran Coalition. “Trump’s ‘Peace to Prosperity’ plan only looks like the latest, doomed-to-fail attempt to end the struggle between the Israelis and the Palestinians. What it really does is lay the foundation of an enlarged (and more cooperative) anti-Iran coalition. That’s why this time, finally, the Arab states are signing on to a peace proposal.”
It’s a brilliant plan, and I have all the details and analysis at the VIP link.
Membership is cheap, and it’s cheaper still with that lovely VODKAPUNDIT promo code.
OR YOU COULD JUST TAKE A BREAK FROM THE HEAVY NEWS: Florida Man Friday: One of Our States Is Missing. “The day may come when Florida Man fails to amuse, but it is not this day.”
IT’S A RIDDLE WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY INSIDE AN ENIGMA; BUT PERHAPS THERE IS A KEY: Lawmakers want to know why people are leaving New York state.
Related: N.Y. Schools Chief Richard Carranza Can’t Quit Calling Parents ‘Racist.’
More: Mounting Presence of Homeless People Recalls Grand Central Station’s Troubled Past.
TRUMP’S SUPERPOWER REALLY IS GETTING HIS OPPONENTS TO REVEAL THEIR INNER DUMBASSERY:
ALSO: Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to mockery:
On the flip side, Trump has made politics more fun for the rest of us than it’s been in decades.
It’s all over but the lamentations of the women Democrats, Progressives, and NeverTrumps.
WAS IT OVER WHEN MSNBC BOMBED PEARL HARBOR? MSNBC Pundit: If Acquitted, Trump Will ‘Shut Down Voting’ in California!
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Omar Paid Additional $215,000 From Campaign Coffers to Alleged Boyfriend’s Firm.
LAWS ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE: Hilary Edition. As Tyler O’Neil has reported, Clinton has twice refused to accept service of Tulsi Gabbard’s defamation lawsuit, trying to weasel her way out of a legal battle.
The New York Post also reported that:
[Gabbard’s lawyer] said their process server first attempted to effect service at Clinton’s house in Chappaqua on Tuesday afternoon — but was turned away by Secret Service agents. The agents directed the server to Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, who on Wednesday claimed at his Washington, DC, firm, Williams & Connolly, that he was unable to accept service on Clinton’s behalf.”
Here’s the thing. She had her Arkansas law license reinstated last May. But the Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct state that:
Rule 8.4. Misconduct.
It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to: (a) violate or attempt to violate the rules of professional conduct, knowingly assist or induce another to do so, or do so through the acts of another; (b) commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects; (c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; (d) engage in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice; (e) state or imply an ability to influence improperly a government agency or official; or to achieve results by means that violate the Rules of Professional Conduct or other law; or (f) knowingly assist a judge or judicial officer in conduct that is a violation of applicable rules of judicial conduct or other law.
Seems to me that dodging service of a complaint might violate sections (c) and (d), no?
TWITTER AT ITS WORST: WAPO JOURNALIST CANCELS KOBE BRYANT.
My latest, on Sunday’s train wreck launched by the Washington Post’s Felicia Sonmez, over at Ed Driscoll.com.
(Bumped.)
FASTER? PLEASE! Scramjet-Powered Cruise Missile Emerges As New U.S. Priority.
BERNIE SANDERS IN 1972: U.S. Actions in Vietnam ‘Almost as Bad as What Hitler Did.’
To be fair, describing America in Vietnam as “almost as bad as what Hitler did” and George Wallace as “sensitive to what people feel they need” weren’t the craziest things that Sanders believed in 1972. And yet, as this Boston Globe headline from late last year notes, “Bernie Sanders hasn’t changed — and his supporters love that.”