What else could go wrong in America? You will note I am not bothering, pedantically, with citing current examples: there being enough of those as it is, spread starkly across the public record. What else could go wrong in America?…
When the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of the dusky gopher frog in 2018, it attracted press coverage around the world, because of two details that fascinated observers everywhere. One was the frog itself, a cute little thing smaller…
The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in Monday with another example of its divided wisdom on abortion, refusing by a single vote to uphold a Louisiana law seen as making access to abortion unconstitutionally difficult. Unconstitutionally difficult? What about less likely…
Sigmund Freud dies and goes to Heaven, where he’s met at the Pearly Gates by Saint Peter. “Dr. Freud, thank goodness you’ve come! We have a crisis and need your professional help!” “How so?” asks Freud. “It’s God. He’s having…
An overlooked irony of these terrible, horrible, awful, no good, very bad times (as the great children’s author Judith Viorst could have described them) is the 5-4 Supreme Court decision last week upholding California’s restrictions on church attendance: the whole…
A Note to Readers: Part One appeared in The American Spectator on December 11, 2019. It is worth the full reading for complete background. A summary appears below in “Section 1: The American Legal System.” PROLOGUE: NEWS ITEM: January 8,…
Know your role. This prescription pervades the basketball world. Adhering to it requires an honest assessment of one’s own abilities and their in relationship to one’s teammates’. Do you contribute best as a scorer, facilitator, or defender? Does your skill…
Concert tickets are expensive. It’s risky to rely on music reviews to choose which performances to attend. Critics are fallible. They don’t always recognize true art. In contrast, the United States Supreme Court has long regarded itself as infallible, because…
President Trump scored a win on Friday, when a federal appeals court gave a temporary green light to the president’s program called Remain in Mexico. The idea is to keep asylum seekers south of the border until they get their day in…
