For all of the media’s hyperventilating about the GOP’s “culture war,” most Republicans show little to no interest in fighting it. In truth, the “culture war” is hopelessly one-sided, pitting tenacious Democrats against irresolute or decadent Republicans. Take Nancy Pelosi’s…
When does the January 6 Committee hold hyped hearings showcasing the Secret Service agents contradicting the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson? “The president said something to the effect of, ‘I’m the effing president. Take me up to the Capitol now,’” the…
Her story was instantly toast. And as a result the January 6 Committee finally implodes. This week, the January 6 Committee made much of the appearance of Cassidy Hutchinson, a young former aide to Trump’s White House Chief of Staff…
The Democrats reacted with predictable hysteria last Friday when the Supreme Court handed down its decision overturning Roe v. Wade. We have since been deafened by shrill denunciations of the “MAGA Court,” “extremist justices” and all things Republican. Adding to…
When I first began litigating in 1994, Jones Day assigned me to an elite team of newcomers who would be given semi-autonomy in handling cases. Although partners would retain oversight, we were given enormous independence in these cases. The first…
John Quinn, the late archbishop of San Francisco, was one of the most liberal prelates in the post-Vatican II Church in America. A few years before he died, he told a group of priests that Pope Francis had blessed his…
After San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone recently barred Speaker Nancy Pelosi from Communion, she appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to defend her defiant brand of Catholicism. It was an abject performance. She didn’t address the substance of Cordileone’s ban but…
Whoopi Goldberg, who has said that she got six or seven abortions by the age of 25, recently pronounced on The View that San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has no right to bar Nancy Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion. “This is not your…
