BY JOHN P. FLANNERY Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s issued a decision, from the highest court, overruling what all the Justices had said was “settled law” in the case of Roe v. Wade. Alito and 5 other Justices set upon to unsettle the decision they’d sworn was “settled” about…

by John P. Flannery, II Charlie Waddell, 90, always had a touch of Georgia, of Braselton, on his mind and, given his deep country voice, seemed a moment away from sharing songs he loved to sing at political gatherings. When young, Charlie lived on a cotton farm and worshiped at…

BY JOHN P. FLANNERY A nation without laws that are enforced or a constitution that is not embraced by the body politic is a nation at risk. As a young prosecutor, I was drawn to prosecute corruption cases, the betrayal of a public trust, persons in low and high office…

Dr. Ibsen prepared a sworn affidavit , on the eve of the Supreme Court argument on March 1, 2022, to consider the nation’s failure to treat pain, preferring to punish what our nation seemingly does not understand. AFFIDAVIT OF MARK S. IBSEN, MD State of Montana, County of Lewis and…

The Hon. Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky -19 February 2022 Ukraine wants peace. Europe wants peace. The world says it doesn’t want to fight, and Russia says it doesn’t want to attack. Someone is lying. This is not an axiom, but it is no longer a hypothesis. Ladies and Gentlemen! Two days…

by John P. Flannery Can a person who swore to preserve and protect the Republic plan a coup and still hold public office? The 14th Amendment to the Constitution says no. Let’s consider how we may invoke the 14th Amendment after the insurrection of January 6, 2021 and in what venues to have the…

By John P. Flannery Asher Svedlow, 2, feeding pumpkins to pot belly rescue, Ethel, 6 (photo by J. Flannery) There may be no zero carbon footprint but we still have it as an environmental goal. The next generation is working on how we attack carbon emissions — and, sometimes, it’s…

By John P. Flannery No more pettifoggery. Biden favors releasing documents that implicate Trump in the 1/6 insurrection. The Select Committee should get those documents & release them immediately. Stop “protecting” we the people from the full truth. Use the power available. Don’t dilute it. Fight afterwards, if we must…

By John P. Flannery The Republicans packed the Supreme Court with three Justices, the worrisome threesome I call them, which begs the question, how does one repair what Trump and McConnell did? With the replacement of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court profile reflected a 6–3 conservative majority after…