Current Events

Brief comments on three breaking stories.

Two days ago was the first time I'd heard about the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia.  I thought it had just happened not realizing until this morning it occurred in February and there had been no prosecution.  If, as is being reported, Arbery was jogging and these civilians confronted him with guns, trying to kidnap him, he resisted, and was then shot and killed, it is beyond me why there has not been a prosecution.  I hope this situation is rectified and justice prevails. [Just after posting this I heard two men have been charged.  Good.]

Very happy to see the Department of Education reverse the Title IX guidance letter issued by an Obama administration ideologue in 2011 and which deprived college students of due process.  An outrageous action by an unelected bureaucrat, cleverly avoiding the entire regulatory process, to give college administrators permission to act in accordance with 21st century Progressive doctrine and further evidence why such doctrine is un-American.  Demonstrating its open contempt for civil rights the Obama administration subsequently appointed the author of the letter, Catherine Lhamon, to the United States Commission on Civil Rights where she currently serves as chair. 

Just heard the news the Justice Department dropped charges against Michael Flynn.  Recent revelations about the improper manipulation of the system by senior FBI and DOJ personnel necessitated this action.  This is only one element of the greatest domestic political scandal of my lifetime.  The substance is worse than Watergate and the New York Times and Washington Post took the side of the bad guys.