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SCOTUS justices have seemed unfazed, indeed, contemptuous, of the American public’s plummeting respect for them and the high court.  That defiant disregard is most apparent with Justices Thomas and Alito, though occasionally acknowledged by Justices Sotomayor, Gorsuch...

The mandated, but fully embraced, preface is that attempts at violence, like Cole Tomas Allen’s last Saturday night, have no place in our democracy and are antithetical to liberalism and traditional American values.  But what is not only American but pervasively and...

Irony of ironies, all is irony was theme and motto of the peace THING held in Islamabad Pakistan last weekend.  The THING (given its brevity and other attributes discussed below we decline to call it a conference) came about after Trump cut and ran over the price of...

As a boomer whose early years were filled with WWII imagery and consequences, including tearful send offs of older cousins from Fort Dix to Korea and whose first ballot was cast at the peak of the colliding anti(Vietnam)war/civil rights/sexual revolution movements -...

Last week the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee sent Trump’s nomination of Senator Markwayne Mullin to become Secretary of Homeland Security to the full Senate, replacing Kristi Noem (the heroine of HL 203 “Kristi Noem Won’t Save the Poor Little Girls, Trump Might...

During his March 6, 2026 news avail NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that his wife Rama Duwaji “is the love of my life and she’s also a private person. . . and I believe that it’s my responsibility. . . to answer any questions about my thoughts and my policies and my...