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OKAY, I WROTE THIS FOR USA TODAY right after the Barr press conference, but they don't want to run it because it doesn't incorporate the Mueller Report. Since I don't have time to read and digest the report this afternoon (I'm teaching two 2-hour classes back to back), I'm just posting it here. Enjoy!_____BILL BARR: ADULT IN THE ROOMGlenn Harlan ReynoldsBill Barr's press conference regarding the Mueller Report release was notable for both style and substance.On style, he reminded us that in an age of shrieking media hysteria and out-of-control twitter-pols, there is still a place for stolid, stodgy, rule-following...

The first distinction between Progressives and Constitutional Originalists is their polar opposite emphasis on process. Progressive couldn’t care less for constitutional process. Oh, they’ll utilize constitutional processes if they can arrive at the desired progressive conclusion, but it ultimately doesn’t matter whether they arrive at social justice via popular referendum, statute, administrative regulation, or judicial decisions. Constitutional Originalists cherish proper processes, and the most important process in the American republic is lawmaking, and limited lawmaking, by Congress. To paraphrase Edmund Burke, Originalists sniff out tyranny with every regulation or court decision, regardless of its perceived social justice benefit, which has...

In the history of the cinema, the German director Veit Harlan occupies an especially ignominious position. It is his name that is attached to “Jew Süss,” perhaps the most notoriously anti-Semitic movie ever made, a box office success in Nazi Germany in 1940 that was so effective that it was made required viewing for all members of the SS. But what motivated Harlan to write and direct such a film? Was he a Nazi true believer, an opportunistic careerist or just a filmmaker too fearful of retribution to say no to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief? Those are some...

Brighton - A man who kidnapped, raped and murdered a woman in 1994 was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole. Robert Harlan was originally sentenced to death by an Adams County jury in 1995 for the murder of Rhonda Maloney, 25. But Harlan escaped execution after the Colorado Supreme Court upheld a ruling that jurors in the case improperly consulted the Bible during deliberation. "It could be said you may have avoided the death penalty by a technicality," Adams County District Judge Scott Crabtree told Harlan.

I am looking for anyone who can give some advice on this matter. We are located in a small community in Harlan County, Kentucky and total poulation of the area is somewhere between 8,000 and 9,000. Our local school board 3-2 voted to consolidate three county schools into one school. By Kentucky KERA guidelines they were suppose to get a two thirds vote by a local planning committee to approve this. They could not get the two thirds vote as the vot was 9-7 as many community leaders and citizens came out against this proposal. However, our local board of...