“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…

             “Just because he speaks a little guilty, that don’t make him innocent….”                                                   Orson Welles as the corrupt sheriff in “Touch of Evil” The question…

We are just back from what I am calling a civil rights tour of the South—Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma, Alabama and Memphis, Tennessee. We visited the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham where four little girls were blown up in 1963, the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery and…

Last fall, The Washington Post failed to endorse a candidate for President. The decision stunned millions and sparked outrage that resulted, among other things, in 250,000 subscribers cancelling their subscriptions. Today, The Post announced a “change coming to our opinion pages.” Jeff Bezos, owner of The Post, announced that “We are going to be writing…

                                                   “You should have never started it.”                                                …