Enough babble about the World Cup.
Spare me the hype surrounding the Super Bowl.
I’m not even thinking of MLB Spring Training.
There’s a spot in the Big American History Record Book waiting to be filled, and I’m fed up & full to the eyebrows with waiting. Continue reading The next Big Question: Who Will Be First to Bend the Arc and Hit It Out of the Park???
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.”
Continue reading Leonard Pitts Retires from writing columns; will write books
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 decree. But within minutes he was abandoned by his own ministers, in a few hours he was impeached by Congress and he was in jail by dinner-time. Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Cracking Two Cuckoo Coup Attempts??
[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 sounding the alarm for years. More recently, columnist Jamelle Bouie has taken up the cry with historical depth and trenchant eloquence.
Realizing what’s happening right under our noses is one thing; stopping it is another. These article excerpts may help thoughtful readers in the work of finding practical remedies; that work will not be quick or easy.]
The Supreme Court Is Turning Into a Court of First Resort
Dec. 7, 2022 — Excerpts:
By Jamelle Bouie, Opinion Columnist
Last week, the Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari “before judgment” in Biden v. Nebraska, which will determine the legality of the president’s student loan debt relief program. . . . Continue reading The Big Read: Supreme Beings — Taking on the Architects of Our Emerging Judicially-Spawned Authoritarian Order
[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.
December 7, 2022
By Mark Silk
(RNS) — Should religious liberty claims prevail over anti-abortion laws in the United States today? A county superior court judge in Indiana, Heather Welch, thinks they should, and she made the argument in an opinion that blocked the state’s new anti-abortion law last week. Continue reading Indiana Judge vs. State Abortion Ban: Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged
