“Maldito sea el soldado que vuelva su arma contra su pueblo”                        …

Iranians can thank Donald Trump for pressuring their government to stop slaughtering protesters. At least that’s what Donald Trump says. Now maybe he can get federal law enforcement to stop killing American protesters. A cynical version of what’s going on in Minneapolis is that ICE agents were sent there to provoke protests so that more…

                                                      But you who philosophize disgrace And criticize all fears                                      …

 2025 has been a terrible year. It was terrible even before it began for reasons that readers of these pages will understand. The anticipation of another four years, a continuation of the 45th president’s first four, couldn’t be avoided. The anticipation, however, didn’t prepare us for the onslaught that began on January 20.  Nothing could…

“But today you are the law. You are the law. Not some book; not the lawyers; not the marble statue or the trappings of the court. These are just symbols of our desire for something just”.                                        …

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.                                                             Upton Sinclair After Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing Agency’s Commissioner                                              …

National Parks Are Told to Delete Content That ‘Disparages Americans’                                                                               The New York Times On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall delivered a commencement address at Harvard University. The speech had been given no public build-up because Marshall had told President Harry S Truman that he wanted none. In fact, the…

   “We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say, ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!’”              …

        Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness.  Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.                                                    …

Kristen Welker:                                                                  But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as…