You can go to the archives and look it up: in the almost two years since the appointment of the Special Counsel to investigate the possible collusion of the Trump campaign with Russia, I have not written one word about it. Why? Because intuitively I have believed from the outset that it was primarily a […]
The Kavanaugh Ordeal
As I write, one of the most shameful public episodes of my lifetime is slowly grinding to a conclusion, except that whatever the final outcome, when the U. S. Senate finally votes on the Kavanaugh Supreme Court appointment during the next few days, it will not represent anything resembling closure for the American body politic […]
Big Data on the Edge
I will make no attempt to hold myself out as one with expertise on the “big data” models of Facebook, Google, You Tube, et al. I barely know what an algorithm is, but it is pretty clear that these monster near-monopolists are very near the edge of a major regulatory pushback in their attempt to […]
The Supreme Court and the Kennedy Succession
The Supreme Court has just completed one of the more consequential terms in recent memory, with significant victories for constitutional liberties. Probably the most significant was with Janus v. Afscme, wherein the Court ruled 5-4 to overturn a deeply flawed precedent in the 1977 Abood decision that allowed states to require workers who aren’t union […]
Year End Potpourri
I don’t normally publish in December, but the rush of events and the fact that I missed a few opportunities during my flood displacement this fall encouraged me to break with custom and briefly comment on a few items. **In early November we passed the 100th anniversary of the final takeover by the Bolsheviks of […]
An Encouraging First Session for Justice Gorsuch
I need not go further than RooshV’s commentary on Slate to feel very good about Justice Neil Gorsuch’s first two months at the Supreme Court, as follows: “Gorsuch revealed himself to be everything that liberals had most feared–pro-gun, pro-travel ban, anti-gay, anti-church/state separation. He is certainly more conservative than Justice Alito and possibly to the […]
Thoughts on the Mission of the Special Counsel
I have refrained from commenting on the various “investigations” involving the Russian influence on the 2016 election and Trump campaign collusion in same, former FBI Director Comey’s testimony, alleged “obstruction of justice”, and related circuses because that is exactly what this has become. And I am certainly not going to attempt any explanation let alone […]
Veto of JASTA was Correct
I have mixed emotions about this, but as unaccustomed as I am to agreement with anything coming from this White House, I believe that President Obama’s veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) was the correct decision. It is difficult to conceive of a more sympathetic cause than with the 9/11 victims’ […]
The SCOTUS Rules
There were only a couple of bright spots for me in the recently announced rulings from the Supreme Court; overall, the decisions were very troubling. Here are some comments on a few of the most significant cases. In U. S. v. Texas, the Court split 4-4 on the challenge by 26 states to President Obama’s […]
A Minimalist Supreme Court? How Convenient for the Left
It’s really very interesting and ironic that no less a progressive than Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein now finds solace in the fact that, with the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, which has basically produced a 4-4 Supreme Court on any seriously contentious issue, the Court might in the interim get used to being less […]
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