THE WESTLAKE EXTENSION AND DEER OF HAMMOND

It was Saturday, March 9¹, 2024 when I made it outdoors for a progress check on construction of what they call the Westlake Extension of the Southshore commuter rail line. My home in the Edison Elementary neighborhood is less than a mile from the point where new rails meet the Little Calumet River. It is […]

THE SOTU AND ARTICLE II

One of the most frequent misquotes of the U.S. Constitution is that the familiar annual State of the Union speech is a constitutional requirement. While the topic is mentioned in Article II, there is absolutely no requirement of annual activity nor any requirement of a speech or a broadcast of the event. Here is the […]

REMEMBERING SIMPSON-MAZZOLI

The unkept promise of the bipartisan Simpson-Mazzoli Act of 1986 is that its amnesty for millions of undocumented (a/k/a illegal) immigrants arriving in the U.S. prior to January 1982 was supposed to be a one-time thing, a resolution to an immigration crisis so bad that it would never be allowed to occur again in the […]

TO DIE IN PRISON

We have all seen them, the pathetic old bastards in public life who have been getting away with bad (and criminal) behavior for most of their lives. Then at an age when they should be kicking back to enjoy a retirement funded with ill-gotten gains of earlier years, there comes (at last) a criminal charge […]

THE 29TH AMENDMENT

As of this frigid mid-January we are faced once again with the prospect of a federal government shutdown for want of a budget or another Continuing Resolution (“CR”) authorizing deficit spending. The CLB has already declared the theme of the 28th Amendment (which is not yet written or proposed officially). So this Article is about […]

REMEMBER THE MAINE!

During this early December time of remembrance of the “sneak attack” on Pearl Harbor some 82 years ago there comes to mind what is no more than a footnote in some out-of-print history book. The topic is coined “Back Door to War” by one Charles Beard. The theory of Mr. Beard has just a dash […]

A FEW THOUGHTS ON WOMEN’S LIB & HOSTAGE RELEASE

Has chivalry risen from the grave? Has woman’s lib withered on the vine? The context here is the ongoing (as of this writing on 11/28/23) holding of hostages in Gaza by Hamas militants in the wake of their October 7th attack on Israel. As of this writing there are hostages being released by Hamas and […]

REPRIMANDING THE AG

On this second day of November 2023 the SCOTSI handed a public reprimand to Attorney General Theodore (Todd) Rokita for intemperate and untrue extrajudicial statements made by him while trying to soak up publicity as a hero to the anti-choice crowd in the days following the 2022 SCOTUS reversal of Roe v. Wade. While Ohio […]

MY NEIGHBOR HAMAS

No, I have no neighbor named Hamas. But there are a couple of million peaceful Gaza Strip residents who do. This exercise in rational thought is mostly about them. Let’s suppose that my actual neighbor is seen launching mortar rounds toward City Hall and doing so from his backyard. I may dislike City Hall, but […]

ALL THE (FORMER) PRESIDENT’S LAWYERS

A CLB Appellate Case Note of October 20, 2023 was titled “Don’t Tell the Lawyer” and pertained to the damnable failure of prosecutors, a trial court judge, and a gutless public defender in the compulsion of testimony by a lawyer against his former client in a criminal prosecution. The lawyer testified to a confidential admission […]