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A Broad Shadow Docket Slaying

More court stuff. Some interesting detail on The Robert’s Court decision by Roberts minus the detail. Humphrey’s Executor Executed In Broad Shadow Docket Slaying, Above the Law In two-sentence order, without any accompanying reasoning, John Roberts ended almost a century of constitutional order. Exercising tremendous restraint, Chief Justice Roberts managed not to write “Executor? I […]

Joe McCarthy (R-WI) pioneered the technique of creating a False Narrative of outright lies and outrageous statements

Trump’s efforts to remove Lisa Cook to appoint a lackey of his choice appears to have failed. It is one of those Have you no decency moments. To which I would suggest Tr__p and his followers doing his bidding really do not have such. Especially when the motives for doing what they did come to […]

Employment growth is dead in the water,

tomorrow we will find out about production and sales  – by New Deal democrat With no news today, let’s take a look at why two releases tomorrow are especially important. Let me begin with employment, which is “dead in the water.”  I’ve written before about how manufacturing and construction employment, and now the entire leading sector […]

Lessons about democracy from the Kirk assassination

In a very insightful analysis of the Kirk shooting G. Elliott Morris makes the following points (among others): Polls overestimate support for political violence.  (The reason is that random responses to poll questions by people who are not paying attention lead to overestimates of support for very unpopular options.  For example, if no one supports […]

Making the Fifties Real and Great Again

Another part of making America great again are the beliefs of the fifties. You really have to be around during that time period. There was a carry over into the sixties. August 28,1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was lynched after being tortured by two white men near Money Mississippi. The story as detailed. The two brothers […]

China warns the Philippines

Bried Commentary: Mainland China warns the Philippines against any interference with their routine patrols. China’s State Council revealed it intends of establishing a nature reserve spanning 3,500 hectares (8,650 acres). The site is the disputed islet of Scarborough Shoal, a contested territory claimed by both China and the Philippines in the South China Sea. More than […]

Some More Lies and Story Telling from the White House

Twist and turn the realities of the occurrences to those who had no part in what events occur. When you harvest the events of promised violence, you sometimes find it comes back at you. Silence is often times far better. This will all pass as well as his time in the White House. It is […]

Responsibility for Murder? I Do Not Recall a Deluge of Threats Coming from Dems

The murder of a fellow human being is not acceptable (period). Prof. Heather has a good take on what took place and want has been said. September 12, 2025 Letters from an American Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media […]