What if you happened to find some odd gadget attached to your car? Why it’s there, who put it there, you can’t say, but one thing is for sure. It’s there, it doesn’t belong there and the car is yours. So you remove it because it’s your car. Did you commit theft? The Supreme Court of Indiana has to deal with the peculiar question. A man who removed a secretly installed GPS tracking device…

As he dips a wrinkled toe into the waters of the Dem presidential nomination pool, former New York City Mayor and current billionaire Michael Bloomberg had to admit something: He was wrong. “Over time, I’ve come to understand something that I long struggled to admit to myself,” he said in the soaring sanctuary of the Christian Cultural Center, in East New York. The former mayor choked up, seemingly holding back tears. “I got something…

In the typically inane halls of #AppellateTwitter, the progressive scolds tried desperately to manufacture a rationalization where they could pretend they didn’t hate their conservative brethren who are members of the Federalist Society provided they didn’t attend the speech by Attorney General Bill Barr, or didn’t applaud afterward, or didn’t stand while applauding. Or, as Iowa prawf Andy Grewal put it, “A decent conservative would have taken his dinner fork and stabbed anyone standing…

Peter Westbrook, who fenced on the 1976 United States Olympic Team, explained that fencing teaches people how to lose. It’s a critical lesson, as people will lose, whether on the piste or in their daily lives. But the other half of the equation is that you can’t blame your way to winning. If you don’t like losing, work harder, train harder, push harder. It’s what athletes do because what they don’t want to do it…

It’s unknown whether George Santayana was into schadenfreude, but if he was, he’d be laughing his butt off now. As he famously said, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” And who better than a bunch of whiny history Ph.D.s would come along to prove his point. Also in the Chronicle in May, Daniel Bessner of the University of Washington and Michael Brenes of Yale University deplore…