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Commentary: Echoes of painful high court decision reverberated todayJanuary 27, 2023By Samuel Damren In mid-December 2022, the House of Representatives passed legislation to remove the bust of Justice Roger Taney from the old Supreme Court Chamber, today a museum in the Capitol building. Taney was a justice of the Supreme Court from 1836-64 ... | Commentary: 'Attorney Woo' is must-see TV in any languageJanuary 27, 2023By Berl Falbaum Pure joy. Those were the two words that continually came into my consciousness as I was writing this column on the Netflix series, “The Extraordinary Attorney Woo.” Based in Seoul, Korea (with subtitles), it centers around a young ... |
Commentary: Basic values take a customary back seat to expediencyJanuary 27, 2023By Berl Falbaum As we reach a pivotal point in the history of the country with criminal referrals relating to Donald Trump’s presidency to the Department of Justice, I thought it is high time to ask a very basic question: When does one abandon values ... | Commentary: An ex-Speaker's turnabout ranks as one for the agesJanuary 27, 2023What if I told you that Brutus didn’t think that Caesar was such a bad guy? Or that the Capulets were reconsidering accepting Romeo as a potential beau for Juliet. Or that the McCoys were planning to ask the Hatfields to come from Virginia for a backyard ... |
COMMENTARY: GOP desperately needs a dramatic change of heartJanuary 27, 2023By Berl Falbaum Whenever there is a controversy about Donald Trump -- which is almost daily -- I feel like I am in a political echo chamber. The subsequent reactions bounce off the walls without any reflection or unique insights, especially when they involve ... | Commentary: Summit fails to address key climate concernsJanuary 27, 2023By Berl Falbaum It was the 27th time they met. It was the 27th time they decided to do basically nothing. I am referring to the international summits on the environment (known as the Conference of Partners, COP for short), which ended a most-recent two-week ... |
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