As promised: Obama speech in Ireland

I am posting this section, as I said yesterday, not so much because he truly knows what the Irish immigrants contributed to America. I don’t. But because what he says is true. Irish immigrants, like my great grand parents, faced enormous odds and discrimination, yet have succeeded. This speech encapsulates that well, and deserves a…

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The children vs. global warming

Last month, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of AEP v. Connecticut.  The basis of Connecticut’s law suit was that power companies were emitting “green house’ gasses which were causing global warming, or climate change, or whatever it is called these days, and the courts, under the doctrine of public nuisance, should…

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