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A license to practice does not confer the wisdom to do so.  A. Attorney General   Eric Holder apparently mislead Congress on his request of subpoenas of members of the press phone and email records.   This is a matter of testimony before Congress.   He has some argument that he didn’t actually do this, that he was really after information leaks from government workers, that he had no intention of prosecution of the press, and on and on.   But his methods are under scrutiny, particularly by the press, his targets of interest.   If his misconstruction of the truth requests and his procurement of subpoenas goes unchallenged, un-reviewed, and unpunished, there will be created a horrific legal precedent.   If nothing happens, if it is dissolved by no press attention,   if no one pays some price, then make no doubt, every Tom, Dick and District Attorney will follow the DOJ (Department of Justice) lead.   This could affect you and me. B. Judge Shopping .   While AG Holder (see above

April 8, 2013: Margaret Thatcher has departed.  Wonderful to her supporters and despised by others, she  now rests upon her contributions.  Is there a lesson learned?  Maybe.  Looking at British leaders for the last while, we've seen a few monumental figures with vision and resolve.  Thatcher is among them. So also was Churchill and Gladstone. They are rare. Indeed they are the exception. Between Churchill and Thatcher there was no one, and after Margaret there has been almost no one. Maybe Blair, though he was caught up in the past and present.  Articulate though he was and is, he did not command the world stage as did others.  England's leaders have been populated and punctuated by true visionaries, and then replaced by unmemorable leaders and losers.  This has been the nature of British affairs. In the US, we have seen Reagan, Roosevelt, and Lincoln - and in between, what?  Affairs in the US are about the same. Yet, the same obtains for other world leading countries.  In