My opening remarks to Amy Coney Barrett if I were a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Thank you, Ms. Barrett, for coming to this dreary, dark chamber today. Sincere apologies for the posturing, virtue signaling, and religious snark.

Decorum dictates that we ask lawyerly questions to which you respond with lawyerly evasive gravitas. But we senators are far more interested in making you look brilliant or foolish so that we will look good to our funders and those we…..

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Most people view President Trump as an impetuous bully immune to criticism, the definition of a fool in the Old Testament’s book of Proverbs. But does he qualify as a Holy Fool: the person who brusquely brays truths that many people believe, but are afraid to express in polite society?

Consider some of his statements during the 2016 presidential campaign:

The world would be safer if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gadhafi were still in power.

Our invasion of Iraq was…..

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In late January, 1973, the United States Supreme Court legalized abortion through the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, resulting in endless acrimony that has settled into predictable channels.

Once Roe is overturned, each state will be able to decide how they want to address abortion. Some will make it illegal; some will mandate varying degrees of restrictions; and a few will maintain the status quo.

According to friends who attended college in the 1950s and 1960s, wealthy women wanting abortions…..

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