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HL 140 – Jack Weinstein, A Great American Jurist Graduates
Jack Weinstein one of the greatest American judges in history, and the greatest in “this boy’s life” died on June 15, two months shy of his 100th birthday. [1] When he retired from the federal bench at 98, after 53 years, he was carrying a full load of cases – and a...
HL 136 – Maxine Muddies The Waters
Unless one has been on the dark side of the moon or further out in space with “Ingenuity” you’ve heard or read Representative Maxine Waters’ exhortation to protestors “to get more confrontational” if the Floyd/Chauvin jury does not render a guilty verdict. And you...
HL 135 – The New York Times’ “Prognosis Negative” Column
The New York Times’ April 13 headline, reading much like one in Rupert’s New York Post, screamed “Bond Girl Talk and Groping: Albany’s Toxic Culture for Women.” It featured numerous claims of survivorhood by New York State Senator Julia Salazar, the self-anointed...
HL 134 – The Amazon Unionization Vote in Alabama Spotlights A Teachable And Actionable Moment
Last week Amazon workers at the Bessemer, Alabama facility overwhelmingly voted against unionization. Implicitly, the workers registered more faith in their employer to continue raising wages and improving benefits and Amazon’s much criticized work environment. The...
HL 133- Xi Jinping and Ted Cruz Agree on Antitrust Policy
Ted Cruz called for legislation ending Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption the same week that China’s oxymoronic competition authority fined Alibaba $2.8 billion, citing the e-commerce giant for violations of China’s antitrust gufflaw. Though the United...
HL 132 – Cy Vance – Yer So Bad
While trying to concentrate on “8 Candidates Compete for a Job That May Involve Prosecuting Trump” the New York Times 3/25/2021 cursory review of those seeking to replace Cyrus Vance Jr. as New York County District Attorney[1] - Tom Petty’s “Yer So Bad” flooded my...







