This is a combination I didn’t expect to find: Grace Slick singing “Wooden Ships” with David Crosby and Graham Nash. In 1989, when all three of them were nearing 50 years old. Airplane and CSN each performed the song, of course. It appeared in 1969 on both the first Crosby Stills and Nash album and …
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Apparently so. On CNN Wednesday night you could watch Cruz, Rubio and Carson answer questions from an audience, while at the same time on MSNBC you got Trump doing the same thing. Thursday night you’ll get to watch Bush, Kasich and Trump on CNN. Be still my beating heart. The people making money on these …
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That’s becoming a meme in the right-wing media. I think this is the original op-ed suggesting that from the Washington Examiner: “Stand firm against Obama’s court packing, GOP” Nowhere in the column is it explained how adding a justice to bring the Court back up to its normal complement of nine means “packing.” Obama’s nomination …
From Events It makes for a pretty entrance to the playroom from the driveway, don’t you agree? The vine has wound its way through our coral tree and some palms and some ginger and when it flowers it’s glorious.
So it would appear, anyway, judging from the number of Republicans who have suggested that President Obama should not nominate anyone to replace the newly-deceased Justice Scalia. It’s startling, really. We have Senator Grassley suggesting “it’s been standard practice over the last nearly 80 years that Supreme Court nominees are not nominated and confirmed during …
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Antonin #Scalia requested cremation in his will, but millions of women will meet tomorrow to discuss if that's really best for his body. — Justice Wainwright (@JusticeBlaine) February 14, 2016
Justice Antonin Scalia died last night in a Texas resort. Within hours of the news Senate Majority Leader McConnell once again announced his intent to thwart President Obama’s constitutional duty to execute the authority of the President. You’ll remember that on the very night of his first inauguration Republican luminaries of both the House and …
Remember this? Judges and justices are servants of the law, not the other way around. Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules; they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to …
Well, not really. But I saw a funny thing on the PBS program “Nature” a few minutes ago and it reminded me of something. Tonight’s episode is entitled “Moose: Life of a Twig-Eater.” It documents the year a photographer named Hugo Kitching spent in Jasper National Park in Alberta as he observed a mother moose …
Trump and Sanders win. That’s what the media will focus on, and that’s okay. What worries me is that the media will then start claiming Governor Kasich is the new “Establishment” front runner and the uninformed hordes will fall for him. Kasich is no moderate. He’s an anti-access abortion opponent: the Ohio governor is anything …