John T. Reed’s news blog

I do not care if Roe v. Wade lives or dies. The decision invalidated a TX law that outlawed abortion. There is no mention of abortion in the Constitution. The 1973 court said the right to an abortion comes from the Constitutional right of privacy. I don’t see the word privacy in the Constitution either. . It is not there. Wikipedia says "The Right to Privacy" (4 Harvard L.R. 193 (Dec. 15, 1890)) is a law review article written by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, and published in the 1890 Harvard Law Review. It is "one of the most influential...

We are having what I call “good sleeping weather” today. Overcast, rainy, chilly, damp cold. . Here in Northern California, it has not rained since January. Weather has been very nice—a drought actually. Satellite photos of northern CA show almost no white on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains. That white is where we get our summer water. . I often take a 20-minute or so nap each afternoon. Today, I think I have already taken three, totally zonked, prolonged naps and it is not yet when I have my normal one. Maybe some sort of sleep deficit from dry...

I explained here recently with delegate numbers why it is over for Bernie, absent some major game-changing event..Let me say it in words..Bernie can’t win because support for a crazy communist is only about a third or less of Democrats. Biden now gets all the non-Bernie Democrat vote. He also gets all the super delegates (771) if Bernie cannot win on the first ballot..End of discussion. Why are media still talking is if it were still undecided? They want ratings. The only suspense is whether Biden wins on the first ballot or the second if no one wins a majority...

There is a big scary article in today’s Wall Street Journal, and it never mentions what I thought was the biggest risk in Boston housing..We lived in Boston for three years while my wife and I attended and graduated from Harvard Business School. One of everyone’s favorite neighborhoods there is called the Back Bay..When I graduated from Harvard, I moved to San Francisco. I read six books on earthquakes and selected the three different places we lived in CA based on those books..When you read American books on earthquakes, you read not only about San Francisco, but about all the...

Somehow, the Democrat primary started with a bunch of women, a gay guy, some blacks, and forced all of them to withdraw leaving two white men in their late 70s and it is our fault for being sexists and racists. . Say what? It was the Democrat primary. The people of color were run out of the primary by the Democrat establishment and the Dem voters. In some primaries, Republicans could vote, but that was not my idea, nor does it seem to have happened enough that it changed any result. . The Democrats, who claim to be so non-sexist,...