by Chris Kelly | Oct 1, 2018 |
“False in one, false in all” is a jury instruction based on a simple, serrated premise: If a witness lies about one thing, jurors are free to assume that he or she lied about everything. By this standard, federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath in...
by Chris Kelly | Aug 27, 2018 |
Because poison packaged as populism is a guilty pleasure, I tuned in to the local affiliate of Corporate GOP Radio this morning to learn why the late Sen. John McCain should not be honored as a war hero, statesman and patriot. It didn’t take long. An especially...
by Chris Kelly | Aug 13, 2018 |
Tonight’s special meeting of the Scranton School Board is canceled. As revealed in my Sunday column (read it here), Superintendent Alexis Kirijan, Ed.D., and Director Bob Lesh planned to push for votes on resolutions intended to silence nagging questions about...
by Chris Kelly | Jul 30, 2018 |
The last book in J.R.R. Tolkien‘s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy has always been my favorite, because it chronicles the resolution of a thinly veiled allegory of totalitarianism, its depredations and the sacrifices required to repel it. The good guys...
by Chris Kelly | Jul 16, 2018 |
Body language needs no translation. It speaks every tongue fluently. From his childlike sitting posture to his fidgeting behind the podium, President Trump‘s physical tics in the presence of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin during their Helsinki...
