Little Rock Whether governments in power like it or not, a fairly minimal requirement involved in the pretense to democratic norms is the right to protest, whether it be a demand for change or action against injustice. Sometimes just protests have been powerful enough to bring governments down, pass needed laws, and undo …
Category: Politics
Supreme Courts’ Leaking Sieve
Pearl River This is one of those crimes without criminals. US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision gutting the fifty-year precedent Roe v. Wade allowing women’s right to choose to have an abortion was leaked. Oh my, oh my! In a tither, the Chief Justice, the media, a legion of pundits expresses outrage and …
The Inmates are Taking Over the Asylum in Congress
New Orleans We all knew that House of Representatives Congressman Kevin McCarthy was willing to make deals with the devils to become Speaker of the House. As one wild concession after another trickled out from the negotiations, even conservative voices and outlets from both local and national news sources chided him for giving away …