"Powell subpoena quashed..."

New York Times, 13 March 2026:

A federal judge in Washington threw a major roadblock into a criminal investigation of Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, quashing grand jury subpoenas issued to the central bank by federal prosecutors over renovations underway at its headquarters in Washington.

So what?
What or who is to stop Trump from simply sending U.S. Marshals to arrest Powell under an administrative warrant and shipping him to South Sudan? I'm surprised Trump hasn't done this to Leticia James already. Sure, the courts would object - I bet even Alito would find this unpalatable, but so what? Trump's DoJ seems quite happy to ignore the courts. Why shouldn't Trump send U.S. Marshals to the next Fed Open Market Committee meeting to arrest all 12 members and ship 'em off to wherever, then replace 'em with twelve of Jared Kushner's elementary school classmates with instructions to cut interest rates to 0%? Who or what would stop him?

... and speaking of duty

Back in April, 1975, during U.S. Army basic training at Ft. Knox, KY (Comapny A, 15th Training Battalion, 4th Training Brigade), we - basic trainees - were instructed not simply that we could disobey an unlawful order, but that we had a positive duty to disobey an unlawful order.

Perhaps members of our current Administration ought re-read the Declaration of Independence

Here's a place to start:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

I'm back... maybe

Let's see if I can figure out how to create posts.

Letter to DNC

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
430 South Capitol Street Southeast
Washington, DC 20003

Gentlepeople:

Now is your golden opportunity.

Start airing TV ads nationwide:

Basic audio/visual – the core of the ad:

Clips of Trump campaign events.

Trump: “Who’s going to pay for it?”
Audience: “MEXICO!”

(There are many such clips. Play them all.)

Voice-over:

He promised MEXICO would pay for his wall.
Now he wants us, American tax-payers, to pay for it.

Tell him NO!

You will never have a better opportunity. Go for it!

Happy New Year!

... with family and friends.

Melissa & I are spending the night in.
We have house-guests - friends from Michigan, with two young kids - a 4-yr-old and a 1-yr-old.
All is good.

In the best of all possible worlds, 2019 will work out well for all of us.