Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.

About 40 percent of the population continues to believe that Donald Trump is doing a good job.

One wonders how this could be in the face of the unrelenting series of negative revelations that pour forth by the hour, the chaos in the White House, and a constant stream of unhinged tweets.

This support is unwavering even after repeated actions on issues that negatively affect a large segment of the population—healthcare, education, and environmental quality.

The answer is that Trump supporters have faith in him in the same way that people have faith in a God, an Old Testament God. Such faith endures despite repeated disasters—fires, floods, plagues, famines. So we should not expect his worshipers to change their minds easily or soon. It bodes ill for our country.

JOSEPH PROSPERO, MIAMI

Note from KBJ: May I help, Joseph? Your Trump Derangement Syndrome is showing. We support Donald Trump because, unlike the previous occupant of the White House, (1) he loves the United States of America, (2) he understands that he is president of the United States, not president of the world, (3) he cares about ordinary, everyday, hard-working, God-fearing Americans, (4) he understands the threat posed to Americans by Muslim terrorists, (5) he understands economics, (6) he doesn't believe in using the government to harass and oppress people, (7) he has a backbone, (8) he believes in the rule of law, (9) he is not politically correct, and (10) he supports both the right to speak and the right to bear arms. There are other reasons, but these are enough to keep your little mind occupied for a while.

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Eric Posner is proof that formal education is compatible with idiocy.

Condition Critical (1984). This song is a guitar lover's dream.

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This blog post by Scott Adams is insightful. People who are not leaders don't understand those who are. There are very few leaders in academia, for example. Most of the committees on which I sit are utterly unproductive and therefore useless. People with doctoral degrees sit around talking about unimportant matters that could be dealt with by one decisive person. The discussions go on aimlessly. I'm not picking on academics, merely pointing out that not everyone is capable of leading.

People who aren't leaders don't understand Donald Trump. They think his success in the business world is based on luck. It never occurs to them that he has leadership qualities that they lack. One important leadership quality, as Adams notes, is the ability to sift quickly through reams of information. One of the things I learned early on as a law clerk is that my memoranda to the attorneys were supposed to provide just the information that they needed in order to decide whether to take a case (or how to proceed in a case they had already taken).

"Get to the point," is the mantra of business, law, and medicine, all of which have important work to do. In academia, by contrast, you can be long-winded. Have you ever read a law-review article? Is it any wonder that judges don't read law-review articles anymore? They're windy, self-indulgent, jargon-laden, and politically correct. No judge has time for that.

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Cycling is not for the fainthearted. Here are highlights from Stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia.

I am a retired schoolteacher, now working as a substitute teacher. Let me tell you what one of my second-grade students said the other day.

She came up to me and boldly asked, “Do you have any pet dogs?” I laughed and said, “No.” Then she asked, “Do you have any pet cats?” I said, “No.” Then she said, “Do you have any pets at all?” I answered, “No, I don’t.”

So she said almost angrily, “Then you have nothing.”

These are the kind of twisted values kids are learning from society (and school) nowadays, because of animal rights radicals.

I yearn for the days when teachers could use prayer and scripture in the classrooms.

Laraine Turner

Kansas City