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

…confidence that President Al Sisi will handle situation properly.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 9, 2017

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Anticipation (1971). Maybe I’m getting old, but this song takes my breath away.

Either intentionally or unwittingly, the Republican Senate has opened the door to a future (perhaps as soon as 2020) Supreme Court justice Barack Hussein Obama requiring only a Democratic president and Democratic controlled Senate.

Enjoy your victory gents, but understand that choosing party over country has consequences, some of which you will hate. True patriots would make a different choice.

Kurt Kolmos, Burlington

Katherine and I went to the Ballpark in Arlington yesterday evening to watch the Texas Rangers play the Oakland Athletics. The Rangers were 0-3 at the start of the game, having been swept (at home) by the Cleveland Indians, who lost the World Series in 2016 to Katherine's Chicago Cubs. (I'm a Michigan boy; she's an Illinois girl.) Ordinarily, we sit in the third deck, from which we have a panoramic view of the entire ballpark, but Katherine treated me to lower-level seats for my 60th birthday. We were behind home plate, seven rows from the field.

In the first inning, I was playing with the zoom lens on my iPhone 7 as Roughned Odor walked to the plate. I took a picture of him standing in the on-deck circle and another of him awaiting a pitch at the plate. I decided to get some action in my third picture. I snapped it just as the ball arrived at home plate. Crack! I looked up to see the ball disappear into the right-field stands. The image in this post (click to enlarge) shows the home run. The Rangers took an early 8-0 lead and held on to win, 10-5. Nomar Mazara drove in six of the 10 Rangers runs. He is going to be a superstar.

It was a delightful evening, with a near-full moon overhead and a perfect temperature.

Judge Gorsuch will be sworn in at the Rose Garden of the White House on Monday at 11:00 A.M. He will be a great Justice. Very proud of him!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 8, 2017

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Canyon (1985).