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

Moontan (1973). Jimmy Page has nothing on George Kooymans, as far as classy guitar playing is concerned. (Page is four years older.)

Here is George Neumayr's latest column. I can't wait for the swamp to be cleared. Anyone who has leaked classified information should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Journalists are discovering Keith's Law, which says that authoritativeness is inversely proportional to partisanship. The only question is, "Do they care enough about being authoritative to give up their partisanship?"

Thank you for all of the nice statements on the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake media not happy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2017

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I'm almost 60 years old. Thank God I lived long enough to see a president who has contempt for the contemptible press. There is nobody more self-important than a journalist, so when President Trump assails journalists for their dishonesty and partisanship, they scream to high heaven as though they have been horribly treated. Keep it up, President Trump! We elected you to fight back against these cretins. (By the way, there is nothing "unAmerican" about defending yourself from scurrilous charges. What's unAmerican is making scurrilous charges. Journalists such as Chuck Todd have no shame.)

Addendum: What really pisses journalists off, besides the fact that Donald Trump is vastly more intelligent and successful than they are, is that Trump is a world-historical figure with real power and real responsibility, whereas they are little more than gnats. Nobody cares about gnats. Nobody remembers gnats.

It is so easy to dismiss the stand against Betsy DeVos by so many citizens as one fostered by teachers unions.

As a longtime public educator, my main dispute with DeVos is her record of allowing vouchers to be used by parents to send their children to private and parochial schools. That policy drains much needed resources from the public schools, already limited by shrinking budgets.

Public schools are in the business of educating everyone. Private schools are not required to take whomever comes in their doors, and often are short of funds to meet the needs of “special” students. Public schools belong to all of us, and they should be valued as the basis of our democracy.

Jill Andrews, Vashon

Note from KBJ: Public schools will have to compete. It will make them better.

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Here is Scott Adams's latest blog post. The thing you need to keep in mind is that Donald Trump is far more intelligent than his critics. They of course don't realize this, which is why they look so stupid with their relentless Trump-bashing.

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Here is Conrad Black's latest column.