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My Near-Out-of-Body Experience While Watching the Debate Last Night: Hearing Clinton’s Answer To the Supreme Court Nominees Question

OMG. It came so late in the debate—the third-last question, the second-last on policy agenda, less than 10 minutes before the end. Asked what she would be looking for in selecting her Supreme Court nominees, she began not with a culture-wars answer or by referencing the need for diversity among the justices as concerned with […]

The British, the Germans and the Irish: A Look at How Traditions Survive Emigration

by Mike Kimel The British, the Germans and the Irish: A Look at How Traditions Survive Emigration Between 1921 and the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, about 70% of those admitted into the US came from the UK, Ireland, and Germany. In a roundabout way, I want to discuss what that has meant for […]

My email to a reluctant-voter friend whose pending federal-court appeal may well be determined by the election outcome before any new judges are appointed to that court

A friend of mine who is the appellant in federal litigation whose outcome she cares dearly about lives in a large swing state in which the presidential race and the Senate race are very close.  She is not particularly political and does not follow political news, other than what’s on her Facebook feed, and has […]

 “Wrestling With Racism – Are These Questions Racist?”

Authored by Mike Kimel Here’s a story widely reported in England from earlier this year: A black former soldier is suing the Ministry of Defence after he was injured when his hands were exposed to temperatures of -30C during training. Abdoulie Bojang, 30, is suing for £200,000 after he suffered career-ending injuries when he was […]

Another Story of Trump’s Womanizing surfaces

We’re posting my Sunday column early: It recounts how Trump forced himself on a young woman–in Ivanka’s bedroom https://t.co/MthYPKFwtR pic.twitter.com/RvYbonLacw — Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) October 8, 2016

People who have sold their soul to Trump

People who’ve denounced Trump’s comments without withdrawing endorsements: – Ryan – McCain – Cruz – Rubio – Portman – Ayotte – Toomey – Burr — Emma Roller (@emmaroller) October 8, 2016