Sitting at my wife’s desk with the sliding doors open, I just read this headline (above), and shouted, “Oh ****!!” loud enough for our neighbors to hear. Glad they don’t have kids. Upon reading further, however, this really isn’t that …
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NY Times: Federal Appeals Court Halts ( Senator Lindsey) Graham’s Testimony Before Atlanta Grand Jury
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Bill Barr — Just One More Criminal Acting to Protect Trump
In this edition of Glenn Kirschner’s Justice Matters (see below), we learn what we had long suspected about then-Attorney General Bill Barr, i.e., that he’s a bald-faced liar who grossly and deliberately mischaracterized the “Mueller Report.” The document had laid …
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Why the U.S. Doesn’t Tax Churches
The reason we don’t tax religions isn’t that we think they need to be subsidized. Rather, it’s that we don’t want what the Supreme Court (in its better days) deemed to be “excessive entanglement” between the church and state. The …
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The Rationale for Charter Schools
The author of the meme poses a good question. The answer is that it’s essentially like everything else in American life: It’s all about me. Public schools have to deliver education to everyone, regardless of their IQ, learning disabilities, and …
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Two-Tiered Justice System
Allen Weisselberg, former Trump Organization CFO who pleaded guilty to 15 felony counts of fraud and could have been sentenced to 15 years in prison, will spend only 100 days behind bars. If anyone has a theory behind the ultra-lenient …
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Name Your Crime
Prosecutors at both the federal and state levels face a set of tough decisions when it comes to indicting Trump. Most of us have complete confidence in Merrick Garland, based on his track record of putting the bad guys away.
Climate Change Compilation
Here’s a compilation of cartoons, charts, and comments on climate change. Enjoy. Photo: The Sahara, the average temperature in which three billion people may live by 2070.
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What “Woke” Means
Anyone trying to measure how stupid and mean the U.S. population is need only recognize that people who live lives of decency and compassion are mercilessly ridiculed and hounded out of political office.
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Civil War?
As the noose tightens around Donald Trump’s neck, everyone’s wondering how a group of heavily armed morons are going to react when the former president is charged with a variety of high-level felonies. All this is made more interesting by …
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Last Warning
The letters in the sand translate from the German as “Last Warning.” The cartoonist seems be to suggesting that what we’re observing all around us in terms of higher temperatures and the concomitant droughts, wildfires, dry riverbeds, emptied aquifers, and …
