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

Fleetwood Mac (1975).

Here is the exciting final kilometer of today's stage of the Tour de France. In a situation such as this, the team with two riders should win, and it did. Chris Froome of Great Britain, a two-time winner of the Tour, is the leader (by 16 seconds) after 10 stages. The Alps are yet to come.

Here are my predictions for tonight's All-Star game in San Diego:

• American League 7, National League 3.
• Most Valuable Player: Manny Machado of the Baltimore Orioles.
• David Ortiz, who is retiring after the 2016 season, will get a standing ovation every time up, and will hit a home run.

Enjoy the game!

Addendum: The American League won, 4-2. Eric Hosmer of the Kansas City Royals was the Most Valuable Player. Manny Machado went zero for three at the plate. David Ortiz got a standing ovation when he left the game for a pinch runner.

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To the Editor:

Re “A Declaration of Fear” (Op-Ed, July 4):

Robert G. Parkinson tries to persuade us that the Declaration of Independence was a poorly disguised effort by the founders to exclude blacks and Indians from the new republic.

But even if we accept his argument, which is based on the 27th accusation against King George III, this accusation is almost an afterthought compared with the central messages of the Declaration: that all people are created equal, that government is legitimate only to the extent that it is based on the consent of the governed, and that the people have the right to alter and abolish any form of government that is destructive of their inalienable rights.

Moreover, the founders’ very real fear was the frightening prospect of being tried and executed as traitors if their political revolution failed.

JOEL LIESKE

Bay Village, Ohio

The writer is a political science professor at Cleveland State University.

Note from KBJ: This professor doesn't understand progressive logic:

1. The founders were white;
2. Whites are inherently racist; therefore,
3. The founders were racist.

If he keeps writing letters like this, his university will send him to a re-education camp.

What would we do for laughs if we didn't have William Kristol? The man lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land.

This woman is a disgrace to the Supreme Court.

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