"Anti-police activists have been using the Burge case for over a decade to justify counterproductive constraints on the CPD today, even though the CPD has long since taken measures to make sure that such abuse never happens again," said Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of "The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe. [read post]

” Additional commentary on the case comes from David Burge in an op-ed for Newsweek and from Wilton Gregory and others at The Atlantic. [read post]

This time, I focused on contributions to the Joe Biden campaign (including “victory fund) and the Donald Trump campaign (including “victory fund” and “Make America Great Again Committee”); the major party organizations (DCCC, DSCC, DNC, NRCC, NRSC, and RNC); and two major aggregators of campaign contributions, ActBlue (Democratic) and WinRed (Republican). [read post]

In a Historically Old Presidential Field, Candidates Refuse to Release Health Records MSN – Matt Viser and Lenny Bernstein (Washington Post) | Published: 2/24/2020 Donald Trump became the oldest person to win the presidency in 2016 after a campaign in which he released only a letter from his doctor attesting to his “astonishingly excellent” health. [read post]