Ted Cruz takes on the Hollywood favorite, O'Rourke

Beto O'Rourke supports Colin Kaepernick (Video) "Beto" would have us think that supporters of Cruz are not aware and as caring about the civil rights struggle as the left. He speaks with soft, velvety demagoguery in this video just as when the liberals claim we hate immigrants when we try to stop illegal immigration. TD

Get Ready for the First Cruz-O’Rourke Debate  "Texas senator Ted Cruz and Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke will have the first of three debates on Friday night.

"Both men face something of a catch-22 from the relatively recent close poll results. On paper, Cruz should be a solid favorite. He’s led all of the polls since the race began except one. This week Quinnipiac put him ahead by nine points. No Democrat has won a statewide race in Texas since 1994, and four years ago, no Democratic statewide candidate surpassed 40 percent. The last heavily hyped Democratic candidate running statewide, gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, finished with 38.9 percent. All of the polling shows the current Republican governor, Greg Abbott, winning reelection by a wide margin.

"The one factor that could seriously endanger Cruz would be complacency among Texas Republicans; if enough GOP-leaning voters think, “Cruz will be fine, this is a deep-red state . . .” then O’Rourke could actually pull off the upset. (Just ask Massachusetts Democrat Martha Coakley how much a candidate can rely on her state’s traditional partisan lean.) In fact, both of O’Rourke’s big political victories in his career, in Democratic primaries for the El Paso City Council and Congress, came in large part from him out-hustling a comfortable incumbent." . . .  (Emphasis mine, TD)

Judd Apatow Hosting Hollywood Fundraiser for Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke

. . . "Apatow’s event with O’Rourke comes as the Senate hopeful faces intense backlash for telling a town hall audience member who questioned his support for illegal immigration that illegal aliens from Central America and Mexico are today’s cotton pickers." . . .

. . . "Also, despite a litany of upset fans, country music star Willie Nelson tarnished his Texas star in the minds of many by announcing that he was set to headline a concert fundraiser for the liberal Democrat.

"Several other La La Land denizens also jumped to the Democrat’s support after his anthem protesting video wowed liberals everywhere."

A Conversation with John Bolton and an Israeli

Caroline Glick

"President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Ambassador John Bolton to serve as his National Security Advisor indicated clearly that Trump is advancing a national security strategy far different from those of his predecessors.

"On and off for decades, Bolton has held some of the most senior foreign policy positions in the US government. And throughout his long career in foreign policy, Bolton has been the bane of the foreign policy elites. In part this owes to his extraordinary successes. After 15 years of fruitless and often half-hearted US efforts to repeal UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 from 1975 that branded Zionism as racism, as assistant secretary of state, Bolton got the job done in 1991.

"As Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs in the George W. Bush administration, Bolton created and implemented the Proliferation Security Initiative. The PSI was the most successful counter-proliferation program the US has undertaken in recent years.

"As UN Ambassador in 2005 and 2006, Bolton dismantled the corrupt UN Human Rights Commission. He opposed the formation of its successor, the equally corrupt Human Rights Committee, saying, “We want a butterfly. We don’t intend to put lipstick on a caterpillar and call it a success.”

"Bolton’s record of success engendered jealousy among many members of the Washington establishment. But they were more irked by his refusal to go along to get along. Bolton’s stubborn insistence on basing US policies on reality, rather than ideology or fashion has made him the bête noire of the foreign policy establishment.

"Trump’s decision to appoint a man who insists on operating on the basis of realities on the ground – even when they are inconvenient and make foreign policy professionals and queasy allies angry or nervous – speaks volumes about his approach to foreign policy and the goals he has set for his administration.

"Long considered – rightly – one of Israel’s best friends in Washington, Bolton has distinguished himself throughout the years by his conviction that Israel is the US’s most powerful and vital ally in the Middle East. So it isn’t surprising that during his visit to Israel this week, one of his biggest headline-grabbing quotes was one where he seemed to reject the country’s hope of securing US recognition of its sovereignty over the Golan Heights."' . . .

Glick was born in Houston, TX and grew up in Chicago, IL. She moved to Israel in 1991, two weeks after receiving her BA in Political Science from Columbia University. She joined the Israel Defense Forces that summer and served as an officer for five and a half years.From 1994-1996, as an IDF captain, Ms. Glick served in the Defense Ministry as a core member of Israel’s negotiating team with the Palestinians.In 1997 and 1998 Ms. Glick served as Assistant Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.From 1998-2000 Ms. Glick studied at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and received a Master’s in Public Policy in June 2000.

The disgusting Democrats are waging a despicable battle. They are defaming a good man, and destroying decency and due process, all to preserve abortion.

Bookworm Room  "Disgusting Democrats will blow our republic apart to kill babies. Without any credible evidence and without any credible corroboration, the disgusting Democrats are smearing as a rapist a man who has led an irreproachable life. In today’s climate, people will more readily forgive murder than they will rape, and yet that’s the label they are appending to him in an effort to block a Supreme Court nomination.

This is what happens when you have a “living Constitution.” If the Constitution as written is your guide, it doesn’t much matter what the justices’ personal feelings are. Once you use the Supreme Court as a non-elected Leftist legislature, though, suddenly Supreme Court nominations have the same weight and viciousness as a gladiatorial death match. And if you cannot actually kill someone who owes fealty to the Constitution, you kill his reputation.

"Anyone who would use this tactic is disgusting. Dianne Feinstein is disgusting for sitting on these hazy, almost fact-free charges for two months instead of passing them on to investigators or arranging for Ford to testify in private session. The only explanation was that she knew this was a lie, a set-up, a delusional fantasy, or something other than the truth, and held it in reserve in case polling hinted that Democrats might retake the Senate. Disgusting.

"Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii is disgusting because she will do anything to prevent Ford from having to back up her vague, contradictory, antique, unprovable allegations:

"You know, for any of us to have dealt at all with the experience of sexual trauma knows that this is a very particularly damaging kind of experience. And you do not treat a person who has gone through this like, ‘Oh, well, hey, how about this?’ You know, I think it’s appalling.

"Not only is Hirono disgusting, she’s stupid. She gave the game away when she said that the seat should be vacant for another two years:

"Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono (D.) said Democrats could keep the open seat on the Supreme Court vacant until after the 2020 election if Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination collapses and Democrats regain control of the Senate in November.Hirono pointed to the long vacancy of Antonin Scalia’s former seat as a justification for holding off on confirming any nominee from President Donald Trump. When Barack Obama was president and Republicans held the Senate, Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not hold a vote on Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland, and Hirono said Democrats could do the same if they had the Senate.“I think we’ve had those kinds of vacancies before, and we certainly had over a one-year vacancy with Merrick Garland,” Hirono told Politico Magazine. “So the world does not come to an end because we don’t fill all of the nominees.”

"This is not the Biden Rule, which holds that a lame duck president doesn’t get to nominate a Supreme Court justice when he’s already got one foot out the door of the White House during an election year. This is an entirely new Disgusting Democrat Rule: Only Democrat presidents may nominate candidates for the Supreme Court, provided that they have a majority Democrat Congress. Under this rule, the Constitutional structure of our American democracy is dead." . . .

"Thankfully, the DOJ is looking into its employee’s confessions about using department resources for political ends."

Mike Pompeo tells John Kerry to 'get off the stage'

Monica Showalter  "Does it get worse than when a current secretary of state has to tell a former secretary of state to just "get off the stage"?  That's what we've come to, now that secretary of state Mike Pompeo has spoken out against John Kerry's unprecedented meddling to undercut U.S. foreign policy toward Iran.

"It really is a grotesque spectacle.  Kerry is the thing that wouldn't leave, and now the secretary of state has had to say something.

"Speaking to Fox News's Laura Ingraham, Pompeo said:

Secretary Kerry can't seem to get off the stage, and you have to[.] ... When I am the former secretary I will get off.  Every previous former secretary has done that too.

"He pointed out that not only was Kerry a nuisance (like Jimmy Carter); he was actually a problem:

I am trying to execute American's foreign policy, and they are not only unhelpful but acting in ways that are harmful to achieving what's best for the American people, and that's my criticism.  Stop it and let it go.  You had your day.  We think you fundamentally got it wrong with Iran, and we're trying to make it right.

"It's unprecedented, and it's unprecedented because Kerry's acts are unprecedented.  Telling the Iranians to just wait it out and wait for Democrats to get back into power instead of play ball with President Trump is a revolting scenario for any government to face.  It emboldens the mullahs, and encourages them to engage in aggressive acts as well as play for time until Democrats can get their act together.  It's so bad that it seems to call for legal action on sedition charges (which Pompeo demurred on, but certainly didn't oppose), given that Kerry is thinking of running for president, and his acts to undercut U.S. policy are motivated by his political ambition.  Plotting on a plan together with the Iranians is creepy in itself, but it also sets the stage for bribery scenarios, which is how the mullahs do business.  When both sides have common interests and have made common cause, money flows.  The FBI ought to be all over Kerry's keister for that one.

Ride on outta here, fella!

"How revolting that Pompeo has got to fight the Obama administration as well as check the odious mullahs in the course of doing his job.  He's not supposed to be political, and State Departments are not supposed to be politicized, but Kerry has gone (along with most of the Obamatons) and politicized the whole shebang, leaving Pompeo to fight a two-front war instead of just be secretary of state.

"No wonder he's disgusted with this nuisance.  Not only has Team Obama left its operatives in the Deep State to undermine the Trump administration, but it's also collaborating with America's enemies to encourage them to put their money on their big comeback, which will affect their courses of action in the today.  Any questions as to why these people do not deserve post-administration security clearances?

"Now Kerry's been told to get off the stage like a bad act, like a skunk at the garden party, by none other than his successor.  He's gotten the gong.  Because right now, his act stinks."

Kerry never met a US enemy he didn't like.

While we're discussing Obama's secretaries of state:  Crooked Hillary just won't slither away  . . . "Hillary, who "forgets" anything that contradicts truth and reality, must have forgotten that she fired the White House travel office so she could give the business to her pals. The White House memo that implicates her includes the following:

Mr. Watkins wrote that "we both know that there would be hell to pay if we failed to take swift and decisive action in conformity with the First Lady's wishes."

. . . Starr said he drafted an indictment with a prosecution memo to indict Hillary for perjury because she answered, "I don't know, or I don't remember" over one hundred times during her deposition.

OpEd: The Obama ILLUSION

Socio-Political- Journal

"Being Irrelevant hasn't dampened Obama's Arrogance. The same Illusions have Invaded Progressives, and sickened many Democrats. The Illusion of success, when nearly every meaningful data-point spells Failure.

"Somehow the architect of the worst recovery since the Great Depression Mr. Obama alludes to the fallacy that the now booming economy is his. Obama may be better at stand-up comedy than leadership. It was the Bush Administration that bailed out the Banks and Auto-Industry.

"It was Obama whose shovel ready jobs moved no earth and employed no workers. The only job creation was in the Public Sector, and most with an IQ over 60, know that more government diminishes National Wealth. Public Sector employment creates no economic advantage for those who foot the bill.

"It was by design to over-regulate the Private Sector, and promote Socialist narratives. Not the narratives that gave us Social Security, and Medicare, but a Free For All Socialist Agenda that added a whopping 10 Trillion Dollars to the already inflated Deficit.

"As Obama touts his delusions such as Deficit Reduction one must seriously wonder whether anything this man says is truthful. Even with a Majority in both Houses it took bribery and the ludicrous statement by the then House Leader to extol their members to sign a Bill NO-ONE had read! We all know the results of Un-Affordable Care Act.

"Obama ruled by fiat with numerous Executive Orders some of which were ruled Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. He allowed his Bureaucrats to ride Roughshod over segments of the American electorate that disagreed with his elitist minutiae while rubber stamping every personal dysfunction of out of norm behaviors.

"Obama was little more than a figurehead for Globalists who have for decades tried to destroy the American Dream. Obama a Black Man whose family never suffered Slavery, Obama a Black Man who never owned,  or ran a Business, Obama always in the Public Pocket was somehow going to Save the World. Laughable when contemplated...
By Theodore Miraldi

The Party of Kaepernick

Why wouldn't Pat Tillman have been a better choice than Kaepernick?

National Review

Nike has set a political trap for Democrats ahead of November’s midterm elections, and the party’s candidates are walking right into it.

"The Democrats’ winning midterm campaign message would seem simple enough: Trump is bad and must be opposed. Yet at the moment the party risks being associated with a somewhat less attractive message: The American flag is bad and must be opposed.

"Last week, left-wing Democrat Ayanna Pressley ousted long-term incumbent Michael Capuano from the John F. Kennedy/Tip O’Neill House seat in the Democratic primary while praising the NFL anti-flag protests, which her opponent called “wrong.” Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke says — in Texas! — that there is “nothing more American” than kneeling for the national anthem. The judicious center-left New York Times columnist David Leonhardt notes in his daily newsletter that “the anthem is a trap for Democrats.”

"That Nike rolled out Colin Kaepernick as its new spokesman not only knocked a couple of billion dollars off the value of the company, it also amounts to an in-kind campaign contribution to the Republican party. The Left and its base of activists, pundits, and (increasingly) woke capitalists simply can’t let this issue go, much less acknowledge that its flag-dissing is conceptually flawed. Demonizing a huge population based on stereotypes derived from the actions of a few of its members is exactly the kind of anti-American impulse that liberals once stood so valiantly against.

"The Kaepernick-led anthem protests were wrong-headed to begin with. Try to follow this logic: The misbehavior of a few police officers means the police in general should be reviled. And if we revile the police the entire American project is to be rebuked by protesting the anthem. Martin Luther King Jr., by contrast, said his stirring vision was “deeply rooted in the American dream.” He called upon us to live up to American ideals. That isn’t Kaepernick’s message.

"Now the protests have gone meta: They’re not about policing, they’re about Kaepernick." . . .
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'Can You Imagine?!': Watters, MacCallum on Trump Getting Blasted for Hugging a Child on NC Visit

Fox News  "In Wednesdays with Watters on "The Story," Jesse Watters reacted to President Trump getting ripped by critics for hugging a young boy during a trip to hurricane-ravaged Craven County, N.C.

"Trump was handing out meals to displaced residents in New Bern when a boy asked for a hug."

Martha MacCallum

✔@marthamaccallum

The responses to this are so depressing. Even hugging a kid is something to criticize.

"The president smiled and hugged the boy, setting off a storm of backlash from critics that MacCallum deemed "depressing."

"Among the many critics, one asked whether the boy "got a check" from the Trump Organization, or why Trump would hug a child when "he doesn't even hug his own kids.' " . . .

What's this about Blasey-Ford's scrubbing of her high school yearbooks from those days?

Cult of the 1st Amendment

"Faculty Approved Racism, Binge Drinking and Promiscuity"

. . . "On Monday Sept. 17^th, Christine Blasey Ford’s high school yearbooks suddenly disappeared from the web. I read them days before, knew they would be scrubbed, and saved them. Why did I know they would be scrubbed? Because if roles were reversed, and Christine Blasey Ford had been nominated for the Supreme Court by President Trump, the headline by the resistance would be this: 

"CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD AND THE DRUNKEN WHITE PRIVILEGED RACIST PLAYGIRLS OF HOLTON-ARMS.

"And it would be an accurate headline. That’s why the yearbooks have been scrubbed. They are a testament to the incredible power these girls had over their teachers, parents and the boys of Georgetown Prep, Landon and other schools in the area. In the pages below, you will see multiple photos and references to binge drinking and the accompanying joy of not being able to remember any of it.

"These yearbooks are, therefore, relevant to the national investigation now being conducted in the media, in homes, and in the halls of Congress. And they should not have been scrubbed. If Brett Kavanaugh’s yearbooks are fair game, so are these.

"And you will wonder while reading them, why the hell did the faculty approve of these yearbooks? Why did the parents take out paid ads in these yearbooks? Animal House had nothing on the infamous “Holton party scene”.

. . . 

"The resistance media has been singularly focused on Brett Kavanaugh’s high school yearbooks, which imply that he got drunk and threw up. There’s no need to imply anything from the Holton-Arms yearbooks. It’s all there in focus, and the written word too. All of the sordid details as approved for publication by a “look the other way” faculty. And now it’s available for historical/evidentiary review." . . .

Scribe 84 is the yearbook for her senior year. Her name was Christine Blasey in high school, often referred to as “Chrissy”.  In the image below, Blasey is pictured at a Halloween party in her junior year. The caption on the right says:

“Lastly one cannot fail to mention the climax of the junior social scene, the party. Striving to extend our educational experience beyond the confines of the classroom, we played such intellectually stimulating games as Quarters, Mexican Dice and everyone’s favorite, Pass-Out, which usually resulted from the aforementioned two.”

"The Halloween party pictured above would have taken place within sixteen weeks of the alleged assault, which Blasey claims happened in the Summer of ’82, after her sophomore year."

. . . 

Below: "Numerous passages in the yearbooks discuss the drunken keg parties held while parents were away from home:"

More here.  Hat tip to Moretti Underground

The American liberal culture against Judge Kavanaugh; where can he go to get his reputation back?

Rich Terrell

The U.S. Senate will hold hearings Monday to allow the accuser of fifty-three-year-old Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh a chance to testify that he groped her in high school. And that’s not all. CNN reports that Brett Kavanaugh kicked a pregnant woman in the belly fifty-three years ago.  Comedian Argus Hamilton

Here come the townspeople with their torches and pitchforks! Celebrities rally behind Kavanaugh accuser in video: 'We believe you'

One wants this woman to be wrong because she is in the same camp as Hollywood, liberal media, Antifa, and Maxine Waters with her horde of scowling Democrats. Because of those people, I'm willing to sink or swim with Trump and Kavanaugh. TD

Blasey Ford Must Be Acknowledged and Then Dismissed . . . "This is another political aspect of her accusation; she sees her alleged assault through the prism of Kavanaugh's politics and potential Supreme Court nomination. 

"In the letter to Feinstein, she calls the get-together a "gathering," and it has been described elsewhere as a "party."  This is easy to understand since either one sounds a lot better than saying she went to a house to hang out with four boys to drink and smoke pot." . . .

Ford vs. Kavanaugh: There's Nothing to Investigate  . . . "Whether it's now or after an FBI investigation, it all boils down to the witnesses identified by Christine Blasey Ford.  Kavanaugh has never been accused of such behavior before in his life and says it didn't happen.  Judge says it didn't happen.  And Christine Blasey Ford didn't even mention it to anyone for decades.  When she did mention it, her claim was contradicted by the notes her therapist took.  Which is more likely: he didn't understand what she was saying, or she desperately needs to change her story to attack Kavanaugh?" . . .

It is sufficient for Democrats that the allegation is out there and will appear in dramas, TV talk show conversations, and comedy routines continually. Conversely, with Whoopi Goldberg, Roman Polanski's statuary rape of a 13-year-old girl was not "rape-rape". TD

New Letter From Ford’s Attorney: Her Testifying Now Would Be ‘Contrary To Committee Discovering The Truth’  "Fine. Vote. Have done with the nonsense."

Go back in time and see for yourself the sort of things Hollywood can say, true or false,  about Republicans and remain in high favor with their peers:

Brett Kavanaugh's accuser gets all the attention, while Keith Ellison's gets none

See any celebrities yet? Nope. This affair doesn't rank as a current Hollywood fad. TD

Washington Examiner  "If you know the name Christine Blasey Ford but not Karen Monahan, you must ask yourself, "Why?"

Weasel Zippers photo

"In the past few weeks, the nation has been transfixed on nearly every detail surrounding the confirmation process of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The week after the contentious hearings, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, indicated that she possessed a letter charging the nominee with sexual misconduct while a teenager in the early 1980s. Since then, and especially now that we know the accuser's name, it's been a literal he said/she said.

"While the mainstream media is focused on what comes next in the ongoing D.C. drama, Democrats remain suspiciously quiet concerning allegations about Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. The claims of abuse against the current congressman, deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, and candidate for Minnesota Attorney General are serious and most importantly, documented. If we just compare the two situations, the strength of the claims against Ellison overtake the assertions directed at Kavanaugh. In fact, if Kavanaugh were facing claims similar to those of Ellison, his time on the national stage would be in immediate and serious jeopardy.

"Ellison's accuser took to social media on Monday morning with claims against her own party, the Democrats. But with the makeup of the Supreme Court currently hanging in the balance, who has time to listen to a woman 1,000 miles away from the Washington Beltway? Her story isn't politically convenient.

"According to Monahan, the #MeToo allies within the Democratic Party don't seem to care about her documented story. " . . .

Haven Monahan to testify in Kavanaugh hearings (That's "Haven"...NOT "Have")

But accuse the elitist white male Duke lacrosse team, Haven Monahan or a Republican nominee to the Supreme Court, and you can upgrade to a much better university and spend the rest of your life being showered with awards, fellowships, honorary degrees, media appearances and so on. Look up "Anita Hill." 

Ann Coulter  "If this is what the left pulls against a sweet nerd like Brett Kavanaugh, I can't wait for the hearings to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg!

Monahan

" Observers of the passing scene were not surprised that the same lunatics screaming that Kavanaugh is going to impose "The Handmaid's Tale" on America also announced that he had committed attempted rape and murder in high school. 

"His accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, remembered this in a therapy session 30-plus years after the alleged incident — coincidentally, at the exact moment Kavanaugh was all over the news as Mitt Romney's likely Supreme Court nominee.

" She doesn't remember the time or place of the assault, told no one for 30 years and has no evidence or corroboration. Maybe the party was at Haven Monahan's house. (He was the instigator of the fraternity gang rape reported in Rolling Stone, which never happened and — luckily for Monahan! — who doesn't exist. Otherwise, he was in BIG trouble.) 

"But the psychology professor at Palo Alto University — who recently signed a letter denouncing President Trump's border policies (thank you, Attorney General Sessions!) — says a teenaged Kavanaugh threw her on a bed at a party and began groping her, trying to take off her clothes. 

"Here's the kicker: "I thought he might inadvertently kill me." 

" 'We went pretty quickly from drunken teenaged groping to manslaughter. 

"This is always my favorite part of any feminist claim: The leap from "he used a bad word" to "HE ADMITTED COMMITTING SEXUAL ASSAULT!" (That's what the media lyingly said about Trump's remarks on the "Access Hollywood" tape, as detailed in Chapter Two of my new book, "Resistance Is Futile! How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind.")

Brit Hume’s Daughter Breaks Silence About Letter From Women in Support of Kavanaugh

Now, where will Judge Kavanaugh go to get his reputation back?

America the Awesome  "Virginia Hume, daughter of Fox News commentator and former anchor Brit Hume, wrote an article for The Weekly Standard on Friday explaining the motivation and circumstances of the letter she signed along with 64 other women in support of Brett Kavanaugh.

"After an anonymous woman accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempting to force himself onto her at a party in the 1980s when both were in high school, 65 women — including Virginia Hume — who knew Kavanaugh during those years released a letter supporting the character of the Supreme Court nominee.

“Brett attended Georgetown Prep, an all-boys high school in Rockville, Maryland,” the letter reads. “He was an outstanding student and athlete with a wide circle of friends. Almost all of us attended all-girls high schools in the area. We knew Brett well through social events, sports, church and various other activities. Many of us have remained close friends with him and his family over the years. Through the more than 35 years we have known him, Brett has stood out for his friendship, character and integrity. In particular, he has always treated women with decency and respect. That was true when he was in high school, and it has remained true to this day.”

"Hume’s Weekly Standard article disputes the theory that the letter had somehow been prepared in advance by those who knew the anonymous allegation against the Supreme Court nominee was about to be made public.

“ 'This, from my daughter, on how the letter for Kavanaugh came about,” tweeted Fox News’ Brit Hume. “So much for the idea it had been prepared ahead of time because those who signed it knew the allegation was coming.”

About That Letter From Women in Support of Brett KavanaughI signed it. Hume's article began. Here's how it went down.

“I signed it,” Virginia Hume began. “Here’s how it went down.”

'On Friday, a group of women who knew Brett in high school sent a letter in support of him to Senators Grassley and Feinstein. I am one of those 65 women. Having seen some of the reaction to the letter, I’d like to clear up a few things:

"The letter was conceived and drafted by friends of Brett’s, and it was drafted after allegations came out on Thursday. I learned about the letter from a friend and fellow signatory. Others learned about it the same way. Those surprised at the speed with which it came together should see it as yet another testament to Brett’s excellent reputation.

"Hume went on to explain that, though both she and Kavanaugh went to single-sex schools, they were “permitted upon occasion” to interact with those of the opposite sex."