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…

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…

by John P. Flannery Whatever one thinks of capital punishment, there must be general agreement that the state should never execute an innocent man or woman. Our criminal justice is so badly broken, no one should be sentenced to death. I’ve argued in and out of court to abolish capital…

by John P. Flannery The Reverend Martin Luther King compared himself to Moses who led his people out of slavery, saw the Promised Land, but never got there himself. In April of 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis, Tennessee supporting a garbage workers’ strike. On the evening of April…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mallory Weber / 516.482.5701 SCW Cultural Arts at Emanuel presents Video Conversation with John Flannery & Joyce Vance, moderated by Errol Louis On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 3:00PM, Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel will present a Video Conversation with former federal appellate law…