Police shoot woman who called 911 to report a suspected sexual assault outside her home. Another addition to the rapidly mounting toll of victims of police brutality. Whatever happened to “serve and protect?” To try and make sense of the bedlam on America’s streets, we are reprinting “The War Comes Home: Violence and Death on […]
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Updates to: Be Careful What You Wish For: More Magical Thinking in the Age of Trump/Gorsuch “Magical Thinking: Supreme Court Justices and the Presidents Who Pick Them” As the Supreme Court prepared to decamp for its summer hiatus, the flock of decisions they issued and the cases they agreed to hear in the Fall pretty […]
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Update on: The Two Bags of Robert Mueller Like the proverbial cat, Robert Mueller has nine lives. Every time it looks like justice has caught up with him, he escapes to reign another tyrannical day. This time it was the Supreme Court that saved his bacon. On June 20, the Court issued […]
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According to Aesop, every man is born with two bags around his neck: a small bag full of someone else’s faults and a large bag filled with his own. Robert Mueller has emerged as America’s newest super hero. Although he has not yet been nominated for canonization (you have to be […]
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“In honor of Flag Day…bring your worn American flags and drop it into the special receptacle. Thanks to our local Boy Scouts, VFWs, military organizations and American Legions for their help in properly retiring all collected American flags” […]
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(FOR A QUICKER SHORTER READ SCROLL DOWN TO THE BLUE FONT) Know how you can tell when an empire is going to hell? When its future depends on a bunch of junkies. Too harsh a judgment? Read on. Quality of life issues abound in today’s America. Lead poisoning causing irreversible brain damage to thousands of […]
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(For a quicker shorter read scroll down to the BLUE FONT) More than two hundred years ago Edward Gibbon gave nations with imperial designs the best advice they ever managed to ignore. “There is nothing more contrary to nature than the attempt to hold in obedience distant provinces.” Talk about the Cassandra syndrome (valid warnings […]
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It’s a red-letter day for you. Staring in wonderment at that precious title to your new car (well, maybe it’s not so new now) that has taken you 5 years to own. But the car is finally yours, the loan company relinquished their part-ownership when you sent in your last payment. That title is your […]
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All Presidents Lie. In the transition from candidate to president-elect to new president to established president, crowd-pleasing, vote-getting promises are usually the first to go. Promises that had seemed baked into the cake suddenly become inspirational as in “We’re going to do our darndest, folks, but you know those (opposition party) in Congress are […]
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It should come as no surprise to “tweeters,” internet readers, and television devotees that the American taste for light comedy and objective journalism has been replaced by a rapacious, “take-no-prisoners,” mentality. In the age of Trump, this development has evolved in accord with the rise and fall and rise again of the Trump phenomenon. First […]
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