Excerpts from the dissent by justices: Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor. (Some emphasis has been added.) After today, young women will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had. The majority accomplishes that result without so much as considering how women have relied on the right to choose or … Continue reading Eloquence Exemplified In Dissent: Courting the Post-Roe Future
“Susan Collins Was A Fool & A Sucker Day” Washington Post, June 2, 2022: “If this … is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office,” said the statement the senator released … Continue reading The Other Name for June 24: Susan Collins . . .
The one newspaper headline I wrote that I don’t have a copy of (but wish I did) hit the streets of Boston in midsummer of 1972, just after the Democratic National Convention. It read: “Why McGovern Can’t Lose.” [For those not of a certain age, Senator George McGovern had just been nominated for president. He … Continue reading They Proved Me Wrong
“Money,” truthfully spake the legendary California pol Jesse Unruh, “is the mother’s milk of politics.” And if money, rather than love, is All You Need (as spake, or crooned, the legendary Beatles), Democrats & their worried (“terrified” is more accurate) and beleaguered progressives ought to be breathing easier today, despite the fate of Roe. The … Continue reading Democracy In Peril: Progressive Billionaires to the Rescue?? (Well, Maybe . . .)
NOTE: On a day off from the January 6 Committee hearings, it’s a suitable time to ponder the Ukraine war, and how it has scrambled long-held beliefs & positions for many people. Here are two perspectives: first, that of an internationally-noted public scholar, and the other from a writer who interviewed & wrote about many … Continue reading Think Pieces: Peaceniks Still Struggle With Ukraine War Support