NYTimes Bombs Air Force 1 Safety, DOJ Reacts
Trump’s DOJ subpoenaing NYTimes reporters to appear before a grand jury investigating alleged leaking of classified Air Force One security capabilities triggered cries of abuse. Would it ease the pain to clarify the competing interests & controlling law?


Soul Food: Week of July 12, 2026
Art is to console those who are broken by life...


Trump Slaughters EAC & Earth Quakes n’ Quacks
US Supremes just issued their “Slaughter” rule allowing No. 47 to fire executive agency heads so the firestorm of protests over his booting all US Election Assistance Commission members is arguably “Much Ado About Nothing …”


Trump’s Iranian Agony & Ecstasy Moment
Letter to Romans: Dr. Trump now sees saber rattling Iran as a “cancer” that needs to be cut out of the body politic, but will he champion the righteous cause like shepherd David who volunteered to slay a loudmouth Goliath, assuring his king he ate “lions & bears” for breakfast?


Davd Soul’s Ben Franklin Confession & Ah-Ha!
Confessing to ChatGPT isn’t same as coming clean with a priest … but my AI friend suggested I reveal to the world that “Davd Soul” is “Darryl Anthony Van Duch” whose rare career as lawyer, legal journalist & law firm media consiglieri spanned 5 crazy decades ...


Reporter’s “Privilege” Not Mightier than Sword?
Journalist Catherine Herridge recently learned (again) her “right” to keep a source confidential can be more “light” than “might” as US Sup Ct left in place a trial judge’s contempt order requiring her to pay $800 per day until she coughs up her leaker …


What’s WNBA’s Caitlin Catnip Clark Waitin for?
Evidence woke kids are broke about their “rights” is everywhere, but esp. in our Inner Cities. A Texas youth thought he had a right to knife a kid who “put his hands on me.” WNBA’s phenom Caitlin Clarke gets bloodied by opponents almost every game …


My View Is ABC’s The View Is Blind to Red
Did a watchdog need to show us why ABC’s “The View” is really a Democratic Party operation & shouldn’t be exempt from federal “equal time” rules? Speaking of which, wouldn’t any fake news org fake any “equal time” it gave the GOP?


Did Supremes Get Blinded By Pot’s Smoke?
It seems even the Supremes are addicted to talking about pot but averse to doing so with clarity. Case in point is the High Court’s recent “unanimous” but fractured decision to ok pot users’ right to bear arms ...


Independent Commissions Still on Life Support?
SCOTUS will soon decide if “Independent commissions” are an afront to the Constitution’s Separation of Powers clause & an illegal assault on a president’s prerogatives to run them. In December orals, several Justices had appeared to signal they are...






















