As I wrote about at the time, Republican Senator Susan Collins, in her much ballyhooed speech from the Senate floor in favor of Bret Kavanuagh's nomination to the Supreme Court, assured all her fellow prochoice advocates that they had nothing to fear from Republican presidents' Supreme Court picks. Granted, Collins admitted, they always promise to nominate Supreme Court Justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade. However, Collins went on to publicly and candidly confess, it's always a false promise, one made simply to snooker voters, especially easily snooker evangelicals, into voting for Republican presidential candidates. Senator Collins even provided, as proof of her pudding, the fact that the Supreme Court has upheld Roe v. Wade............

There is a scene in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar where Cassius marvels over Caesar, a weak man with a feeble constitution, being elevated to stand over the whole civilized world. Cassius recalls a time when he saved Caesar from drowning in the Tiber River and another time when he saw him sick and whining like a littler child. That such a small man should cast so large a shadow over this world was truly incomprehensible to Cassius. Barack Obama blamed all his failures on his predecessor, George W. Bush. Now, he is traversing the country trying to take credit for the successes of his successor, Donald Trump. Truly, Obama's incessant whining, "That was me, people," proves what an infinitesimal small man he really is. That such......