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February 26, 2016
Question: Should Americans ever just stay home and not vote?
Answer: Absolutely not. Not ever. Always vote. It's one of the few absolutes. Flip a coin maybe. Lots of voting's substance consists in the mere act of doing it.
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February 22, 2016
My Friday Night at SCOTUS
Am not a fan of most key AGS decisions; I'm a switch hitter as a voter but generally vote Dem for POTUS. Scalia was a very great man, lawyer and judge. His SCOTUS career began my first year of practice. On Friday night I spent 2.5 hours near, at or in SCOTUS building at 1st and E. Capitol streets NE to view his casket. All manner of people demographically, sexually, racially and age-wise but mainly DC locals stood in the cold in a line that stretched south down 1st Street and then east down E. Capitol and even past 4th Steet in residential Capitol Hill. Viewing was originally supposed to close at 8 pm but was expanded at least twice to accommodate the lines. I got there at 7:30 pm and left the building a little after 10:00 pm with the lines still building. Amazing. Moving. GIad I attended. Honored to be there.
Scalia Law Clerks at 1 First Street, N.E. Friday, February 19, 2016
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February 19, 2016
Nelle Harper Lee (1926 - 2016)
Pulitzer winner Lee in 1961, Monroeville, Alabama (Getty)
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Note to President Obama re: SCOTUS Slot
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, 1899, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.
Dear Mr. President:
I'm glad you are getting on with the selection of Justice Scalia's replacement as the Constitution requires.
But maybe add "Protestant-raised" to complete your list? A WASP? White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Like those old English guys who started settling here in the early 1600s? Right now not one of the nine justices is a Protestant or WASP. We used to have lots and, I admit, maybe even too many WASPs. It would be so rad if we could have just one member of SCOTUS out of nine people from the same general colonial tribe who (1) thought up, (2) planned and (3) commenced building America.
Man or woman. Doesn't matter to me. Duke grads are fine this cycle, too
Thank you.
Sincerely yours,
John Daniel Hull, IV
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February 15, 2016
Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 - February 13, 2016)
Brilliant, a fighter, larger than life: Nino Scalia high school photo 1953.
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February 13, 2016
Mike Cernovich interview on Mirriam Seddiq's Not Guilty No Way podcast show.
Author, original thinker, lawyer and commentator Mike Cernovich, an American authentic who comes with brains and balls, was interviewed by Mirriam Seddiq last week on her Not Guilty No Way radio podcast show. The show with Cernovich is right here. If you want to meet a man whose three years at a fine California law school didn't rob him of his ability to think on his own, don't miss his segment in Episode 104. Much about the politics of men, women and real life gets covered in a compelling chat with a guy who does more to advance free speech/expression in one day than yours truly does in a year. Mike's a pioneer.
In Episode 104, host Seddiq is again assisted by Justin the Lawyer, Steven the Law Clerk and Katie the Hot Receptionist. However, she conducts Cernovich's interview alone. She does especially well in a necessarily more complex interview than, for example, when she interviewed me three weeks ago today. In addition to being a trial lawyer, Seddiq's a natural journalist, and getting better and better. The Cernovich interview was her third as a show host and interviewer. More importantly, she's good-looking and doesn't ditz out, get hysterical about issues or talk all the time. My kind of broad.
Above: Mike Cernovich
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JDH and WJC, New Year's Day, Charleston, South Carolina. No. 3
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February 11, 2016
American Pantheon: Alicia Vikander
Alicia Vikander is the 27-year-old Swedish actress who plays painter and historical figure Gerda Wegener in the new film The Danish Girl, with Eddie Redmayne. Wegener plays the wife of Einar Wegener (Redmayne's), also an artist, and one of the first known people to undergo a sex-change operation. As usual, Redmayne is first-rate, and nearly flawless in communicating what Wegener likely went through. Alica Vikander, however, is a revelation--at least to me. She shows each of the intertwining, never-ending, conflicting emotions she struggles with as she consistently supports her husband--turning from a man into a woman before her eyes--in a way that riveted me. This is a film about true romantic love. It may stretch you a bit.
Original posting date: December 23, 2015
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February 09, 2016
JDH and WJC, New Year's Day, Charleston, South Carolina. No. 2
1/1/09 Noon
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February 06, 2016
JDH and WJC, New Year's Day, Charleston, South Carolina. No. 1
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February 03, 2016
Against the Great Neutering: Mr. Cage, thank you for being a Man.
On Twitter this morning I found the below Tweet. I was moved. Via Mr. Cage @I_AmAmerica "I'm Young, Black, Married, Father, Christian Conservative with a Huge Attitude":
Dear Men of America
Our women and children need us to be leaders, not some emotional, docile, weak cry baby.# FAMILYFIRST
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