One of the nice things about being out of the country is that I have not had to live through all the endless coverage of things like the immigration debate in the Senate and the trip to Africa by president Obama. It is amazing to me just how little interest there seems to be in internal American politics in Europe. I have just gotten little bits of news about what is happening each day in the USA. Even so, a few things have been made clear:
1. The prosecutors who are pursuing George Zimmerman should be ashamed of themselves. Their own witnesses seem better for the defense than for the prosecution. I do not pretend to know what happened between Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. I do, however, know that a crime must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. There is no way that this can be done. These prosecutors should have had the courage to do what is right and refrain from prosecuting Zimmerman.
2. The Senate immigration bill is much ado about nothing. Most likely the House will not pass anything even close to the Senate bill. Those voting for the bill embarassed themselves by once again passing a bill that no one had yet read and understood. Just for once, it would have been nice to see and hear reasoned political debate rather than political pandering. Don't get me wrong. I am neither for nor against the bill. I have not had a chance to read it. I just think that before the bozos in the Senate pass the thing, they ought to have at least read and understood it.
3. Fighting climate change by Executive Order is one of Obama's worst mistakes yet. First of all, global warming has stopped -- at least according to the thermometers. And it has stopped for the last fifteen years. There is no reason to cripple the American coal industry to fight an imaginary problem. Here too, political pandering is beating out rational thought.
4. The Supreme Court is one institution that seems to be doing its job. In the last week, it announced some really important decisions. For the most part, they seemed truly trying to follow the Constitution and not the current political thought. Sadly, if only one of three branches of the government is doing that, we are in trouble.
1. The prosecutors who are pursuing George Zimmerman should be ashamed of themselves. Their own witnesses seem better for the defense than for the prosecution. I do not pretend to know what happened between Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. I do, however, know that a crime must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. There is no way that this can be done. These prosecutors should have had the courage to do what is right and refrain from prosecuting Zimmerman.
2. The Senate immigration bill is much ado about nothing. Most likely the House will not pass anything even close to the Senate bill. Those voting for the bill embarassed themselves by once again passing a bill that no one had yet read and understood. Just for once, it would have been nice to see and hear reasoned political debate rather than political pandering. Don't get me wrong. I am neither for nor against the bill. I have not had a chance to read it. I just think that before the bozos in the Senate pass the thing, they ought to have at least read and understood it.
3. Fighting climate change by Executive Order is one of Obama's worst mistakes yet. First of all, global warming has stopped -- at least according to the thermometers. And it has stopped for the last fifteen years. There is no reason to cripple the American coal industry to fight an imaginary problem. Here too, political pandering is beating out rational thought.
4. The Supreme Court is one institution that seems to be doing its job. In the last week, it announced some really important decisions. For the most part, they seemed truly trying to follow the Constitution and not the current political thought. Sadly, if only one of three branches of the government is doing that, we are in trouble.
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