by Chris Kelly | Oct 25, 2018 |
Does anyone else miss the good old days, when hateful crackpots sent envelopes stuffed with baby powder to terrorize fellow Americans they deemed insufficiently patriotic? The white dust was meant to mimic anthrax and scare recipients and a nation still reeling from...
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...
