In September 2018, I and millions of my fellow citizens witnessed a fascinating drama on television. It was the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate conducting confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh prior to his elevation to the Supreme Court. I and countless others were riveted by the high drama of the proceedings. Judge Kavanaugh […]
In 1692 and 1693 there were a series of trials in Massachusetts for people accused of witchcraft. More than 200 people were accused, and nineteen were found guilty and executed. Another person was tortured to death for refusing to plead guilty or innocent. It was perhaps the most notorious case of mass hysteria in American […]
We have driven the Brett Kavanaugh controversy into the ground. Thank the Lord that the confirmation fight is over. Over the weekend, however, I received an e-mail from a granddaughter to which she had attached a video presentation by a left-leaning commentator. The fellow made a reasonably rational presentation, so I listened to him. Now, […]
I listened carefully to the testimonies of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Cavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both of them were powerful witnesses. Each of them has a host of supporters who vouch for their good character, and I had the impression that Ford and Kavanaugh were each telling the absolute truth “as they […]
I am thinking about the ongoing brouhaha about Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to succeed Anthony Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court. The real argument is about Kavanaugh’s judicial philosophy and his positions, inferred but never stated, on hot button social issues such as abortion. Having failed to thwart Kavanaugh’s confirmation on the basis […]
Christine Ford has accused Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to serve as Supreme Court Justice, of a sexual assault against her at an unidentified home in Montgomery County, Maryland, sometime in the summer of 1982. Brett was 17 at that time Christine was 15. Kavanaugh insists on his innocence, Ford proclaims his guilt. Friends of […]
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