Leonard Pitts Retires from writing columns; will write books
Pulitzer Prize-winning national columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. is retiring and wrote his final column Tuesday. “Time flew, didn’t it? Now, it’s time for me to fly off, too.”
Category Archives: Current Affairs
Gwynne Dyer: Cracking Two Cuckoo Coup Attempts??
No democracy is immune to big lies by Gwynne Dyer, Opinion columnist December 12, 2022 Could there be anything more ridiculous than last week’s failed coup attempt in Peru? Last Wednesday morning, President Pedro Castillo made an unscheduled broadcast announcing that he was dissolving Congress, suspending the constitution and would rule the country by … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Cracking Two Cuckoo Coup Attempts??
The Big Read: Supreme Beings — Taking on the Architects of Our Emerging Judicially-Spawned Authoritarian Order
[NOTE: i’m somewhat slow on the uptake, but numerous shocks of 2022 have pounded home the sense that the principal architect of our increasingly dominant regime of minority rule is the Supreme Court. To get more up to speed on this process, I’m reading Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s fine new book, The Scheme. Whitehouse has been … Continue reading The Big Read: Supreme Beings — Taking on the Architects of Our Emerging Judicially-Spawned Authoritarian Order
[No Longer] Waiting To Exhale? Upbeat Toons After The Midterms?
God Rest YE — Oh, Wait — Who are you referring to, Mr. Chair— err, Santa?? It’s a Barrel of Trouble Now . . . Too Much Truth in This One . . .
Indiana Judge vs. State Abortion Ban: Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged
[NOTE: I’m no lawyer, but this opinion seems to come under the heading of “sauce for the goose . . .” and the part of the Constitution about the government is not to officially favor any specific religion, which its recent Dobbs decision obviously does. I’ll be watching for updates on the decision’s fate. Religious … Continue reading Indiana Judge vs. State Abortion Ban: Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged