Barr was not elected.

Congress was.

Perhaps this is the year the Supreme Court will believe in the voter and the vote rather than corruption.

Mayor Andrew Gilliam has launched a campaign to register new voters. Applause, applause. But, there are profound problems with voting and manipulation of the vote by the State of Florida. Recently, young voters from Parkland, Florida had a higher number of refused absentee ballots than any other city or town or demographic in the area.

I recognize the need to register new voters, however, that effort may fall flat if the manipulation of the vote continues in Florida and other states where obvious corruption manifested.

The Democrats are always the Big Tent party and that is a good thing, but, they have to also attack the problems that beset the Democrats since the Supreme Court diminished the impact of the Voting Rights Act.

The Supreme Court heard arguments today regarding gerrymandering. This might be the year the people of the USA will finally have their wishes come true. It was just last week when Justice Thomas actually asked a question. It may be a sign that anything is possible this year.

With the abuses of voting in North Carolina, the Justices may see things differently.

March 26, 2019
By Anne Branigan

This year, a Supreme Court (click here) stacked with conservative judges may finally decide the fate of political gerrymandering. The issue comes up to the Supreme Court again on Tuesday when judges will hear oral arguments involving redrawn district maps—one involving a Democrat-controlled legislature in Maryland, the other a Republican legislature in North Carolina.

If it feels like déjà vu, it’s because the issue has come before the high court before. Historically, the court has been reluctant to interfere with the ways state legislatures draw up voting districts—a task which falls to the party in power and is inherently political. As one might expect, majority parties tend to redraw state legislative and congressional district boundaries to allow themselves to keep power....

Governor Matt Brevin should be investigated for child abuse.

Brevin's circumstances is not impoverishment. He could completely afford vaccines for his children. To think he intentionally exposed his children to chickenpox is a worry.

Bevin exposed nine children to the virus rather than the vaccine (click here). He is using his own children as a campaign tool.

There was a time in the USA when children died of chickenpox exposure and to have a Governor or any other elected official throw caution to the wind and promote disease exposure over vaccinations is completely irresponsible. It isn't as if his children contracted the virus from casual social interaction. Brevin deliberately exposed his children to it.

Varicella-related outpatient (click here) visits declined 84% in 2012 versus the prevaccination period (1994-1995) with 95% decline among infants aged <1 year and 75%-89% decline among persons aged 1-49 years.

Varicella hospitalizations declined 93% in 2012 versus the pre-vaccine period; during the 2-dose varicella vaccination period (2006-2012), hospitalizations declined38%

Varicella deaths declined by 87% during 2008 to 2011 as compared to 1990 to 1994 based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). In children and adolescents less than 20 years of age, varicella deaths declined by 99% during 2008 to 2011 as compared with 1990 to 1994.

Varicella incidence among HIV-infected children declined 63% during 2000-2007 compared to 1989-1999.

Varicella vaccination provides indirect benefits to people who are not eligible for vaccination. Varicella incidence among infants, a group not eligible for varicella vaccination, declined by 90% from 1995 to 2008.

The responsible way for a governor to indicate he is a skeptic of vaccines is to organize a panel of experts to explore the positive and negative outcomes of any vaccine. Above is a reporting e-page of the CDC. There are children alive today because of the vaccines they receive. There is no doubt about it what so ever at all. The disease rate is down and the death rate is down. 

I find Brevin to not only be an abusive father, but, a negligent governor as well. He should never have promoted anti-vaccine dialogues.

So, Jessie Smollett is not guilty and prosecutors have erased all traces of their victimizing campaign against him. Of course, the men that actually did attack Mr. Smollett walked and cannot be charged again because of double jeopardy. 

There is a lot wrong here. The Chicago Mayor needs to investigate the issues surrounding the entire episode.

The reason the two men who attacked Jessie Smollett were released with charges dropped is because of a story they told. What prosecutors didn't do in this case is maintained the charges of assault and battery. They committed the crime.

Let's say everything they said was true. There is a difference between carrying out a crime as opposed to reporting the intended fraud to the police. The men carried out the crime. Those charges should never have been discharged without due process.

It is looking like the truth about Matt Whitaker is up to the Congress. The Inspector General may not be able to come to a conclusion.

Considering Matt Whitaker was soon to leave the DOJ as Trump's Acting Attorney General, it may explain why he was so self-righteous and basically annoyed he had to answer questions before the Congressional panel. The Acting AG knew once he left the DOJ the mechanisms within the government to analyze employees' work would not be able to subpoena him. It would seem that Congress has the only right to subpoena and bring testimony to the Inspector General.

There are more people affiliated with Trump that seeks any avenue available to avoid analysis and law enforcement. Is Whitaker the one that got away?

By Murray Wass

On March 2, former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker (click here) abruptly resigned from a new Justice Department position only two weeks into the job—after he learned that he would likely be fired if he refused to answer questions from the department’s Inspector General about his controversial tenure as the nation’s top law enforcement official.  

As a result, investigators may never learn whether President Trump attempted to enlist Whitaker in an effort to impede a federal criminal investigation into whether the president himself conspired to violate campaign finance laws. And Whitaker most likely will no longer be compelled to answer questions on a wide variety of other issues by investigators for the Justice Department he once headed. The department’s Inspector General has no authority to subpoena or require testimony from former officials, whereas those who still work for the department are subject to severe disciplinary measures if they refuse to cooperate with investigators, most often resulting in their immediate dismissal. By resigning, Whitaker most likely will have evaded the IG’s questioning.

The Inspector General is currently reviewing requests to the department from at least ten senators to investigate Whitaker’s conduct as acting attorney general....

In regard to the Special Council Report:

Please remember Former Director Mueller realizes this is Russia, an enemy of the USA. While he had no problem indicting individual Russians, to indict a president enamored with Russia is not his to make, it is up to Congress. That is another reason why AG Barr is completely wrong about writing a stupid letter rather than forwarding the report and supporting documents to Congress.

Robert Mueller is also an American. He no different than any other American expects the government to function.

The "thing" with the GOP about all this is that what Trump is doing is legal. It is permissible under the USA Constitution. Maybe. I believe there is a lawsuit by Mr. McCabe in the courts. But, it isn't that Trump does these things, it is the manner in which he has done them. In the case of Mr. McCabe he publicly embarrassed him and deprived him of a retirement every agent seeks if they are a career agent. That was a power play, grossly inappropriate and mentally cruel, that was used to set an example for all other government employees regarding LOYALTY. LOYALTY is not a constitutional right, either. We are a country of laws, not men.

The GOP is very, very wrong in substituting political animus for governance.

It is time for the media networks and the candidates to sue the White House once again.

Every candidate running for any office in the USA should be interested in the fact the White House is attempting to threaten network CEOs unless they follow the Trump agenda for American viewing.

You know what gave me the idea there was a real pathology with President Trump?

FBI Agent McCabe. 

Trump absolutely enjoyed depriving Agent McCabe of his fully vested retirement. Not only did Trump enjoy it, but he was also enjoying it in full view of the public (power). Trump not only enjoyed the idea of torturing an FBI Agent with financial demise in public, but he also enjoyed it in the closing days of the employ of Agent McCabe. Sorry, folks but that is a pathology no one should ignore. The President of the USA cut off the fully vested retirement of an FBI agent DAYS before he was to retire. That is not a mentally healthy president. 

Not only was that cruel and unusual treatment of a dedicated government employee that is involved with national security but, Trump's zealotry is contagious to the public. 

And it doesn't end there. There are examples after examples of his pathology that screams out loud and it is in public display.

Now, Trump wants to control every media network with a prescribed agenda. I don't think so. We have enough trouble holding onto a civilized society.