“The average American works at a job he hates, to earn money he doesn’t need, to buy things he doesn’t want, to impress people he doesn’t like.” Or, as Harvard social scientist Arthur C. Brooks writes in The Atlantic (here), “Life is just a rat race, and we’re d[...]
Archive for February 9th, 2022
February 9th, 2022 - 8:41 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Questions GOP senators ask black judicial nominees
As speculation rages over who Biden might pick to replace retiring Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer — he made a campaign pledge to nominate a black woman — let’s look at one of the leading contenders, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was appointed as a D.C. Circuit district judge by[...]
February 9th, 2022 - 8:19 pm § in Politics
“Wokeness” according to DeSantis
Ron DeSantis (R) likes being Florida governor, but would rather be president. He’s sort of a frontrunner for the 2024 GOP nomination, if Trump for some reason (whatever reason) doesn’t run. So let’s check out how DeSantis views the condition of our society: Pete Buttigieg: “If a[...]
February 9th, 2022 - 3:43 pm § in Racism
Black swimmers’ lives matter
It shouldn’t take the NAACP to intervene, but when it did, the YMCA sponsors of a swim meet backed down. Leidy Gellona, 12, of Superior, Wisconsin, was told she couldn’t compete in her “Black Lives Matter” swimsuit by a “volunteer official” who claimed it “w[...]
February 9th, 2022 - 3:23 pm § in Donald Trump
Eating the evidence gets rid of it
Trump played fast and loose with official documents, but we’re only now learning how fast and loose. You probably heard he took 15 boxes of papers to Mar-a-Lago, which the National Archives has retrieved, and government employees had to tape together documents he tore up. But that’s not [...]
February 9th, 2022 - 2:48 pm § in Foreign Affairs
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February 9th, 2022 - 11:58 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
GOP’s favorite gun-toting attorneys in license doghouse
A St. Louis lawyer couple who threatened BLM protesters with guns (photo below) are on professional probation for a year. (Story here.) Mark and Patricia McCloskey pled guilty to misdemeanors (see story here), but were pardoned by Missouri’s GOP governor. The McCloskeys, who have a seamy histo[...]