Month: June 2013

If there has been any Constitutional consistency to Scalia’s votes over the years, it would be on the First Amendment.  He’s been a somewhat fierce defender of free speech rights (and usually drags Thomas along...

. Just watched an hour long forum discussion on France24 with the actual news as it happens in Doha, Qatar and Kabul, Afghanistan. Appears to be great underreporting of the military penetration of the Taliban throughout the...

Take a look at the roll call of today’s House vote on the Farm Bill. That’s twenty-three votes shy of passing. That’s not even close. That’s a rout. And they wouldn’t have brought the bill up for a...

Wait until the Republicans realize that their breakthrough deal on immigration reform will create 20,000 government jobs! Amazing how that works. Never mind that they will be roaming around in the desert along the border with...

I probably cannot put into words how I feel about the death of James Gandolfini at the age of fifty-one. He was exactly eight years older than me, and also born and raised in New Jersey. It’s not his role as Tony Soprano...