Ilsa and the Orthodontist

It’s one cantó duh

De Niro in Ronin is a good one.

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David Kertzer and Common Ground by Anthony Lukas

I’d also note that judges have their own personal pride and reputations at stake. They’re being confronted in real time with this kind of slop and have to respond.

I don’t totally buy this explanation. The Appropriations chairs are supposed to check incursions on the congressional power of the purse but they haven’t thus far. Federal judges with lifetime appointments are perhaps better positioned to stand up for themselves and the judiciary as a whole.

There’s actually a written record of how Merry and the gang react to the Shire’s police force being quintupled by administrative fiat.

I guarantee you that our body politic would look extremely different if even 1% of SNAP recipients were literally starving.