(Hat tip to Tucker Carlson for some, but not all, of the colorful Indian appellations)  This week, an unusually combative and confusing mid-term election became even more combative and confusing, with the unexpected entrance into the fray of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s news that a private DNA test has determined that there is a possibility that she indeed does have an ancestor, from 5 to 10 generations in the past, who may have been an Indian.  I hesitate to say an American Indian, because the DNA test company didn’t match her DNA to that of any American Indian, but instead matched it to DNA from indigenous peoples from Mexico and South America.  The Senator’s test showed that she may have 0.09% Indian blood.  Indeed, she may be 1/1024th Indian.  We are told that the average, walking around American has twice the amount of Indian DNA as does Warren, but no matter, she immediately made it known that her long-ridiculed claim to Indian heritage had been proven.  Warren’s timing was suspect.  She is up for reelection this year, but in Massachusetts, polls have her running at least 25% ahead of her opponents, so it wasn’t her Senate reelection that prompted the unexpected announcement.  To recap, Warren, was hired at Harvard after she represented herself as a Native American.  Harvard even advertised Warren as its first female professor “of color.”  Of course, Warren is whiter than white, and white ordinarily is considered to be the absence of all color, so the natural question to be asked is, if she’s a person of color, to what color were they referring?  At full blush, Warren is still pretty white.  The impromptu revelation seems to have more to do with Warren’s desire to run for President in 2020 than her candidacy in 2018.  Warren’s Indian heritage claim stems from a story about her grandparents’ resistance to her mother’s marriage on grounds that she had Indian blood.  What she says is that, when she was nothing more than a papoose, her Papaw related this story.  The DNA test seems to prove no more than that Warren’s grandparents were bigots, but she claims that her high cheekbones prove that she is descended from the Cherokee and perhaps Delaware tribes.  Melania Trump has much higher cheekbones than does Warren, so unless the Cherokees had a Slovenian chapter, this factor may not be dispositive.  She’s been ridiculed for her claim, and has widely been called Fauxcahontas, the false Pocahontas.  President Trump has lambasted Warren, deriding her as Pocahontas at every opportunity.  Warren says her test proves Trump wrong, and Warren has denounced Trump for mocking native Americans.  No Liz, the President isn’t mocking native Americans, he’s just mocking you.  When confronted with the 1/1024th  chance of Indian blood, Warren protested that, “it’s not about the number,” the test proves she was right all along.  In order to understand this claim, one must understand Leftist logic.  Elizabeth Warren was told she has Indian blood, and she believed it, so if she identifies as a native American, that should be good enough.  Identity politics are the Holy Grail of the Left.  Indians are victims, and self-identification as a member of the victim class should end the debate.  The problem facing Fakeajewea Warren is that even the media, the willing handmaids  of the Left, aren’t buying her Spreading Bull.  Rather than declaring her yet another victim of Trump’s intolerance, they instead have regarded her test results as an unwelcome distraction to the electoral process, and have regarded her Indian heritage claim as, you should pardon the expression, Crazy Horseshit.  Instead of being hailed as another minority victim of the Trump insult machine, would-be Indian squaw, Dances With Truth Warren, has been dismissed as a joke, a Fraudazuma, or a Geronisnowjob, if you will.  Warren may claim Cherokee heritage, but the Cherokees sure aren’t buying it.  A spokesman for the Cherokee tribe has declared the DNA results “useless,” and have denounced her claim of Cherokee citizenship as “inappropriate and wrong.” Ouch.

Elizabeth Warren is undeterred, however.  Big Chief Running Mouth, taking a page from Chief Joseph, has taken the position that, “I shall fight the truth forever.”  I understand that she’s coming out with new book, coauthored by writer Dee Brown, entitled, Bury The Truth And Vote For Me.  Warren obviously needs something to bolster her upcoming presidential run, against the likes of Kamala Harris, Corey Booker and Eric Holder, all of whom have more obvious claims to minority (victim) status.  Warren can’t be black, and she can’t get away with claiming to be Hispanic, so  she has proclaimed #Me Sioux, because female and Indian was the next best thing.  Democrats have never been known to let a little thing like the facts get in the way of a good sob story.  Elizabeth Warren has dishonored the millions of real native Americans, many of whom have all too real stories of discrimination.  The Song of Lieawatha is a song of deceit and deception.  Shame, shame, Lieawatha.  Liar liar, buck- skin pants on fire.

In the last episode of Frank on Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee had voted out the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh and the Republicans had acceded to the Democrat/Jeff Flake request for yet a 7th FBI background investigation of Kavanaugh.  They specifically requested that it be completed within 7 days.  The FBI conducted the necessary interviews, and surprising no one at all, nothing was found to corroborate the claims of sexual impropriety, dating to the 1980’s (I guess, because even the complainants weren’t sure of much).  The Democrats, practicing their new tactic of government by mob rule, paid teams of crazies to haunt Senators in the halls of the  Senate office buildings and in the Capitol.  They whipped up the frenzy of #MeToo protestors, who sought to make this nomination, and any nomination by a Republican, a stage on which to weigh the woes of all women who were or claim to have been wronged by any man.  Of course, this standard applies only to Republican nominees, because Il Duce Obama could have appointed the Marquis De Sade to the Court without complaint.  This resulted in squadrons of shrieking females, chasing Senators through airports, harassing them in their homes and at restaurants, and yelling “You must hear me!” in their faces, as though they couldn’t be heard from miles away.  The Kavanaugh hearings were a disgraceful display by Democrats, who withheld the letter of Dr. Ford from the Committee, then leaked it to the media, which hounded her into a spotlight which she did not desire.  They then  beat the bushes to drum up even more outlandish allegations, all of which were unfounded.  None of this was about Brett Kavanaugh.  Like they said in The Godfather, “It’s not personal, it’s just business.”  The fact that he and his family were to be completely destroyed didn’t matter to the Dems.  Had this nomination come up after the mid-term elections, it never would have gotten to such extremes.  It was about power, and nothing else.  For Democrats, the Supreme Court is a super-legislature, where only 5 votes are required to ram through policies of which the voters would never approve.  In their attempt to defeat Kavanaugh, they stooped to even lower lows than anyone thought possible.  Democrats even dragged up a supposed incident from Kavanaugh’s college days, where he allegedly threw an ice cube at someone in a bar.  This, they said, disqualified him.  After the sexual abuse smears, you should pardon the expression, petered out, the Dirty Dems argued that Kavanaugh was too strident after being falsely accused of being a serial rapist, and thus, lacked the judicial temperament to sit on the Court.  As Professor Alan Dershowitz has pointed out, this tactic was an integral part of the McCarthyite smears of the 1950’s, which Democrats once opposed.  Today’s Dems have made Joe McCarthy look like a statesman.  The temperament argument sprung from two sources, the Democrats’ willingness to stop at nothing to maintain their power, and their experience with Republicans who usually are timid, good-losers, who cut and run when the going gets tough.  A lesser man would have quit under the weight of scurrilous smears to which Kavanaugh was subjected.  A lesser President, indeed, any President other than Donald Trump, would have caved and withdrawn the nomination.  But not anymore.  The reality that Trump is willing to fight back is pushing the Dems to act even crazier than they normally do, and empowering the loony Leftists to drag the Party even further toward socialism and anarchy.  The Left really has no program to run on in November.  They propose no policies which might enhance liberty, advance economic prosperity, or protect the Republic from its enemies.  They simply hate Donald Trump, they oppose anything he supports, and they vow to pursue nothing more than resistance and impeachment.  The economy be damned, the borders be damned, the military be damned, and most of all, the voters be damned.  They are consumed with hatred, a hatred which feeds their mental disease, Trump Derangement Syndrome.  They predicted the apocalypse when Trump was elected.  The economy would crash – it’s booming.  Trump would ignite a war in North Korea – Trump has laid the groundwork for peace on the Korean peninsula.  Trump’s tariffs would destroy the world economy and damage relations with other nations – he’s revamped NAFTA, gotten concessions from the Euro Zone and is in the process of dealing with the misconduct of China.  Through their opaque lens of hatred, the Left sees none of this.  Bands of hooded anarchists armed with weapons roam the streets wreaking havoc.  The Dems support them.  Democratic elected officials, including Il Duce Obama, openly advocate harassment and violence.  And tellingly, the Left protests, marches, and shrieks in support of problems which, largely, no longer exist, and rights that are not at risk.  Abortion rights aren’t going anywhere.  Thankfully, institutional racism is a thing of the past. (The past history of the Democrat Party).  Shelby Steele recently observed that “Today’s Left lacks worthy menaces to fight.  It is driven to find some replacement for racism, some sweeping historical wrongdoing that morally empowers those who oppose it.  Failing this, only hatred is left.”  Mr. Steele says that the Left is stalked by obsolescence, without enough menace to service its demands for power.  He predicts that, “for the American Left today, the indulgence in hate is a death rattle.”  I hope he’s right.  As this is written, the Senate has just voted to confirm, now Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  Despite all the smears;  despite a mania that drove even the ACLU to abandon its more than 100 year old commitment to due process and the presumption of innocence; despite scores of shrieking protestors being pulled from the Senate gallery during the vote; despite the mobs and despite the crazies; the Iceman Cometh.  Its a lucky thing for Democrats that Brett Kavanaugh is such a sober, reasonable, an ethical man, dedicated to the constitution, otherwise, given their despicable antics, pay back would have been a bitch.  Have a beer Justice Kavanaugh.

In our last episode, the Senate Judiciary Committee was holding a hearing to explore the claim of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford that, 36 years ago, give or take (she can’t remember exactly when), somewhere in Maryland (she can’t remember exactly where), on an unspecified day, in an unspecified month, at a party attended by either four boys and several girls, or only two boys, she was in a room with Brett Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge, when Kavanaugh pushed her onto a bed, groped her, and covered her mouth to prevent her from calling out.  She claims Judge jumped onto the bed, and she got away.  Now, she was at least six miles from home, and was 15, so she didn’t drive, but she knows not how she got to wherever it was or how she got home from there.  None of the people she claims were present, including her close friend, remember any such party or the assault she alleges.  Each has so sworn under penalty of felony.  About the only thing she is sure of is that it was Kavanaugh.  Senate Democrats had this claim in July, but told no Republican on the Committee, so that an investigation could be conducted before the confirmation hearings.  Democrats, always quick to hold Republicans to a standard of conduct they don’t see any need for their own Party members to meet, were shocked, shocked and appalled.  To illustrate, Democrats say that a 36 year old grope by a supposedly drunken teenager (not conduct that I endorse, mind you), cannot be overcome by a brilliant career of legal scholarship, selfless service to to the less fortunate, and a spotless record of decent treatment and support of women, in and out of the legal profession.  The Democrats, who would disqualify Kavanaugh for a dubious 36 year old indiscretion, are unconcerned that the Deputy Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, now a candidate for Attorney General of Minnesota, is clearly guilty of domestic violence against his girlfriend not so very long  ago.  I guess elected perverts are acceptable.  Now, Kavanaugh vehemently denies the accusation, and even presented the Committee with meticulous calendars for the time in question (whatever it is) which strongly suggest no such meeting with Ford ever happened.  Dr. Ford’s testimony was compelling.  Her pain clearly is real, and she likely was victimized some time in the distant past.  She’s just got the wrong guy.  Democrats don’t care.  They say an accusation from a woman is all that’s necessary.  They wanted Kavanaugh to defend himself before any testimony from Ford.  That’s reminiscent of Franz Kafka’s The Trial, where a man is hauled into court and ordered to prove himself innocent, but they won’t tell him the specifics of the crime.  No presumption of innocence for Kavanaugh, they say.   Criminals must be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.  Other legal standards are clear and convincing evidence, and a preponderance, where the wrong is proven to have occurred more likely than not.  But Democrats have applied a new standard of proof for Kavanaugh, proof nearly approaching an idle rumor.  No need to presume innocence, they say, because this is not a trial.  The presumption of innocence dates back to the Code of Justinian, some 1,500 years ago.   The presumption of innocence is the principle that one is considered innocent unless proven guilty.  It was traditionally expressed by the Latin maxim ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat (“the burden of proof is on the one who declares, not on one who denies”).  The presumption was an important part of Magna Carta, dating to 1215.  It is an integral component of English and American common law.  The presumption of innocence, and due process of law, the notion that an accused must be afforded sufficient notice of the charge he is called upon to defend, are integral protections afforded to all Americans by our constitution, you know, that document that all Senators are sworn to uphold.  Even Iran recognizes the presumption of innocence.  But not for Brett Kavanaugh.  That  noted legal scholar, Hawaii Senator Maisie Hirono, has explained the difference, “Look, we are not in a court of law, we are in a court of credibility at this point.”  Uh huh.  As this is written, the Senate Committee has voted the Kavanaugh nomination out to the full Senate, but with this proviso, outgoing Arizona Senator Jeff Flake (aptly named), after being confronted with two mindless protestors in an elevator, is holding the Senate hostage, along with erstwhile impediments, Senators Murkowski of Alaska and Collins of Maine, demanding an FBI investigation of Kavanaugh before a full vote of the Senate.  This is a pure delay tactic of the Democrats.  Whatever the FBI says, they will never vote for Kavanaugh.  If it gets Kavanaugh on the Court, I guess it’s worth it.  It’s all a Democrat game.  Kavanaugh embarrassed the Senate.  He challenged them by telling the truth, the Senate has devolved into a circus, which will destroy him or anyone to maintain its ability to wield political power.  As this is written, the Dems are now claiming that a one week investigation isn’t enough.  Former Hillary press secretary Brian Fallon is demanding that the FBI also “get to the bottom” of the term “boffing,” which Kavanaugh says referred to flatulence.  One would think that the “get to the bottom” language sufficiently explains the source of flatulence, but then again, having worked for Hillary, perhaps Fallon knows that Democrat flatulence often is expelled from from a source other than the anal orifice.  They also demand an investigation into whether Kavanaugh threw an ice cube at someone in a bar in the 1980’s.  Reportedly, the FBI hasn’t found any corroboration for the Ford claim, or the even more outlandish claims being espoused by the other two women who are trying to turn Brett Kavanaugh from the straight-shooting Boy Scout he clearly is into a notorious drunken serial rapist.  It goes to show to what lengths Democrats are willing to go to in the throws of their Trump Derangement.  It’s sick, it’s twisted and it’s sad.  Kavanaugh’s righteous indignation at having been falsely accused is being spun as injudicious conduct.  They have no shame.

On September 18th, Lance Morrow of the Wall Street Journal,
Compared the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings to the Salem witch trials.  Unfortunately, Mr. Morrow’s comparison is not a stretch.  In 18th Century Salem, the courts admitted the “testimony” of non-existent spectral witnesses, who made vague accusations that served to condemn the accused as a witch.  That scene is playing out in the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Democratic Senators, including ranking Democrat Diane Feinstein, interviewed Judge Kavanaugh at length before the confirmation hearings began.  He answered over 1,300 questions in 32 hours of testimony.  The hearings were marred by constant interruptions by protestors who were paid to get expelled from the hearing room and arrested.  Then there were the crazy women dressed as characters from, The Handmaid’s Tale.  However, apparently sometime in July, Feinstein received a letter from California college professor Christine Blasey Ford.  She reported a circa 1982 incident, in which she claims Kavanaugh, then 17, fondled her and put his hand over her mouth. Ford says she never mentioned the alleged incident until 2012, when she told a therapist.  She reportedly told the therapist four men were present.  She now says only Kavanaugh and a friend of his were there.  She can’t say where this supposedly happened, or exactly when it happened, how she got there, or how she got home.  Kavanaugh’s friend says he never saw such a thing.  Ford’s friend says she wasn’t there.  Kavanaugh vehemently denied the accusation.  More than 200 female friends and colleagues have signed letters attesting to Kavanaugh’s character and lifelong decent treatment of women.  This list included women who knew and dated him in high school.  No Democrat asked the Judge about this.  After the vote on the nomination was scheduled, it was leaked.  Ford claims she wanted to be anonymous, but for some reason hired a Democrat activist lawyer, took a polygraph test during the summer, and told The Washington Post all about it.  The vote was postponed.  Ever devoted to fairness, Democrats immediately pronounced Kavanaugh guilty.  Kavanaugh demanded to testify about this.  Senator Grassley invited Ms. Ford to testify on September 24.  Her lawyer said she would, then  said Ford would not appear.  Grassley offered to hear her in public, in private, or to send investigators to California to take her statement privately.  Ford then announced she was willing to testify, but only after an investigation by the FBI.  How one would conduct an investigation 36 years after the fact, when the complainant has very few details to share, and when the only people identified by the complainant say it never happened, is unclear.  As a prosecutor who conducted investigations, I can tell you it’s impossible.  The Democrats happily took up the cudgel.  Senators shifted gears from demanding that Ford be heard immediately, to claiming that requiring Ford to testify now would be a violation of her rights and her privacy.  Senator Gilibrand denounced the September 24th hearing as “a sham.” Senator Maisie Hirono, demonstrating what you get from a one Party State, advised all men to “just shut up, and step up” because “women must be heard, and must be believed.” I guess that means that, having slandered Judge Kavanaugh in The Washington Post, Ford must be believed now, but shouldn’t have to repeat her accusation under oath now.  Then again, if a complainant’s gender dictates credibility, there’s really no need for a hearing.  Just get a rope.  It reminded me of a scene from A Man For All Seasons.  Thomas Moore, on trial for treason, is the victim of perjury.  The judge says, “The jury shall retire to consider evidence.”  Cromwell says, “Considering the evidence, is it necessary for the jury to retire?”  It wasn’t.  “Guilty.”  We then were treated to a ridiculous “negotiation” in which Dr. Ford’s lawyer, who is tied to Hillary Clinton, dictated her terms to the Senate, including demands that Judge Kavanaugh testify first, that he not be present when she testified, that her testimony not be under oath, that the media must be restricted, and only one camera angle be permitted, and, oh yes, she doesn’t like to fly, so she couldn’t appear on Monday the 24th, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, either.  Then, when the Senate agreed to hear her on Thursday, the 27th, another accuser, predictably, entered the fray. This time, it was a former classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Yale, who can’t remember the day or the month or the year, but claims, although she was nearly passed-out drunk, and really can’t remember well, he exposed himself to her.  Her former roommate and best friend says she never mentioned it to her.  Other classmates who she said were present say they can’t confirm her story.  Even the New York Times says it wasn’t comfortable running this story (It did anyway).  Not to be out done, the creepy porn lawyer, Michael Avenatti (or is it Scifossanatti?), also wants to testify (not a client of his, mind you, he wants to testify) that Kavanaugh and his friends were responsible for gang rapes in college.  If that’s hard to believe, it’s only because it’s bullshit.  The purpose of this shameful exercise is, and always has been, to delay the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh, who is a threat to the Left.  The threat is that an honest Justice, who will apply the provisions of the constitution as written may stop or slow the Progressive drive to advance policies that the voters and the legislature would never approve, and which the constitution does not guarantee. I’ve often said, if Democrats didn’t stand for hypocrisy, they’d stand for nothing at all, but they’ve outdone themselves here. They have proven that they have no scruples, no morals, and no decency.  The Democrats were faced with an eminently qualified man, one of the best qualified nominees ever to be proposed to sit on the high court, a religious man, with a fine family, who volunteers to serve meals to the homeless, and who has been hailed by colleagues and former law clerks as a champion for women in the legal profession.  In a sane world, and in a sane time, he would be unanimously confirmed.  But we live in Crazyland, where half the inhabitants are afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Anything proposed by Trump must be stopped.  They couldn’t stop Kavanaugh on his merits, so, if you can’t beat him, smear him.   As this is written, the Senate Committee is planning to vote.  Stay tuned.

When John Edwards ran for President in 2004 he spoke about the Two Americas, by which he meant, there was one America for those who had enough and a second America for the have nots.  This was a good old fashioned appeal for the redistribution of wealth, coming, as such pleas always do, from a Democrat millionaire, who was proposing redistributing other people’s money.  In the aftermath of the 2016 election, it now is clear that there really are two Americas.  Not the ones described by Edwards, though. The two Americas that exist are insider America and outsider America.  Every day, we gain more and  more evidence that the real story of the two Americas is the shameful dual system of justice that coddles the connected establishment insiders, and perverts justice to persecute outsiders, who represent a threat to the continued comfort of those on the inside.  There’s no other way to explain what’s gone one the past two years.  More than that, really.  Since Donald Trump came down the escalator in 2015, he became public enemy number one for the insiders.  Democrats certainly have every reason to oppose Trump, but if it was only the Dems it wouldn’t be so bad.  The insiders dwell under the rocks of both parties.  That’s why it doesn’t matter to them which party is in the majority.  They still get to keep their phony baloney jobs, they decide who runs for office, who gets elected, who gets appointed, who get the seemingly endless torrent of government money, and when they leave office, they cash in as lobbyists.  It’s not Democrat/Republican, it’s inside/outside.  Was it a surprise that Hillary and her henchpersons bought a scurrilous crock of bull crap from a Brit, that he got from Russian intelligence, and used it to try to smear Trump?  Of course not.  That’s par for the crooked politician course.  But that wasn’t enough.  The woman (Nellie Ohr), who worked for the company that sold the bull crap to Hillary, gave it to her husband, high-ranking FBI lawyer Bruce Ohr.  In recent testimony, Bruce Ohr claimed he knew the bull crap came from the Hillary campaign, and knew the Brit (Steele) who compiled it was biased against Trump.  Ohr claims he warned the FBI about this.  Steele swore under oath in England that he couldn’t verify anything in his bull crap story.  Nonetheless, the FBI told the FISA court that Steele was “reliable.”  And after the FBI fired Steele for breaking the rules, they continued to vouch for Steele’s reliability.  And everybody above Ohr knew this as well.  Ohr told them.  No matter, the Obama Administration had to stop Trump, the outsider, who talked about preventing former politicians from acting as high paid lobbyists, and about cutting the federal workforce by 20%, and getting illegal immigration under control, which might reduce the stock of people who will work cheap and keep their mouths shut, which is the Establishment Insider American Dream.  Of course, the only person who could beat Trump was sick, tired, venal, crooked Hillary Clinton, who staggered from one underwhelming campaign event to another, like Marley’s Ghost, dragging behind her the ponderous chain of dirty baggage that she had forged, link by link, over the decades.  If that wasn’t enough, there was the little problem of Hillary’s violations of numerous statutes relating to her handling of classified documents, violations that would surely land any unconnected outsider behind bars.  She needn’t have worried, she was inside, America #1, so no problem.  They let her get away with deleting 30,000 subpoenaed  emails, then let her destroy the devices and wipe the server, and then wrote the letter absolving her before they interviewed her, and at the interview, they allowed her would-be accomplices to appear as her counsel and gave them immunity.  That’s the inside.  On the outside with Trump, we have America #2.  In that America, the law is applied to the letter, and when they’ve done nothing illegal, they add new letters to the law.  If you’re not Hillary, but instead are Paul Manafort, they can dredge up decades old crap that prosecutors already passed on, throw you in jail, and ruin your life.  If you’re George Papadopolous or Michael Flynn, they can set you up in a phony perjury trap.  If you’re Donald Trump, you represent America #2, so have no rights under the laws.  And the constitution, what’s that?   Recently released emails between FBI lawyer Lisa Page and her paramour, Peter Strozk, prove that they knew there was no evidence of Russian collusion when they ginned up the Mueller investigation to look for the non-existent evidence of collusion.  They knew the investigation would come to nothing, but they needed to tie up this President, ruin his Administration, drive him from office, and continue to cover up their own crimes.  There is no doubt in my mind that the FBI did what it did at the orders of Barack Obama, John Brennan and Loretta Lynch.  But that won’t help the FBI people whose necks are now sticking out.  As this is written, the President has declassified the FISA warrant application, the investigation reports that led to the surveillances on the Trump campaign, and emails from Comey, McCabe and and others.  Attorney Joe DiGenova believes that this will end with a number of convictions for criminal offenses.  There had to be something really bad for the Justice Department and FBI to refuse to turn over requested documents for so long.  The soon to be defendants cannot rely on the Nuremberg defense (I was just following orders), nor will the fact that Obama ordered the actions absolve them of culpability, unless the courts suddenly decide to accept the claim that, “When the President does it, it’s not criminal.”   That didn’t work when it was tried by Richard Nixon.  Of course, the Dems are criticizing the release of documents as an abuse of power, that is meant to interfere with the phony baloney Mueller investigation.  It’s hard to envision how one can obstruct justice by releasing the truth, but that’s what passes for justice in Insider America number 1.