I Guess Nixon Should've told Dean not to Testify to Ervin Committee
If only Nixon had had William Barr as his AG in spring/summer of 1973 instead of Elliot Richardson. If only he had had an advocate who was willing to bend the law to his needs instead of an AG who...
View Article2 RFK Speeches From 1968 Resonate More than Ever In the Face of Twin Massacres
As the dust settles from a horrific weekend of mass shootings, it is appropriate to recall 2 RFK speeches that are highly relevant in the current context. The first is his speech on The Mindless...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to a pacifist socialist who was wrongfully executed
by the dominant empire of his time at the behest of local religious authorities. The figure whose nominal birthday is being commemorated today did NOT have anything to say about homosexuality, and the...
View ArticleI've Spent 4 Decades Underestimating Bernie Sanders
I first read about Bernie Sanders in In These Times (which was then an avowedly socialist publication) in1981. They hailed the narrow election of a socialist mayor of Burlington, VT. In a year when...
View ArticleCanvassing for Sanders
My son and I spent this afternoon canvassing in our neighborhood. A local Sanders supporter has a campaign operation running from his house, and the national campaign uses a web-based canvassing...
View ArticleJoe Biden: Onetime D-MBNA
I link the following 3 posts from 2005:Biden (D-MBNA)Holding them accountable2008: Biden to run for president (of MBNA?)I heartily agreed with all 3 posts then. I fully agree with them now,...
View ArticleBarrett Confirmation is a Battle of Britain Moment
There really won’t be much territory upon which we can retreat and regroup after a confirmation, especially if said confirmation occurs before 11/3/20. I have been a member of the FL Bar since 1983....
View ArticleBush v. Gore, Notre Dame, and ACB
While there are many fascinating aspects of this confirmation process, 2 jump out at me in particular. The first is the nominee’s insistence today that she had no recollection as to what she did as...
View ArticleI Weep for Notre Dame
I have little to add to what I already wrote about my decades-long ties to The University of Notre Dame du Lac. I will merely note that RFK was still alive the first time that I set foot on its campus...
View ArticleI Witnessed Events in 1968--It Was Nothing Like This
On 8/28/68, I was a few days away from starting 5th grade at my Catholic parish school in Chicago’s SW ‘burbs. My mother took me downtown that day to see events surrounding the Democratic National...
View ArticleMY New Rules In a Dangerous Time
Any last lingering doubts about where this country is now and about where it could be headed if we don’t see a drastic course correction were resolved by the release of Alito’s draft majority opinion...
View ArticleWill Justice Barrett Switch Sides on Independent State Leg. (ISL) Theory?
Yesterday, the SCOTUS granted certiorari on a North Carolina case addressing the ISL theory: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically change how federal elections are...
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