Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson are now deemed no longer banned from baseball by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, which means they be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Whether they be elected is the real test of whether MLB accepts the hypocrisy that exists now that gambling has become a widely accepted across all sports. #

In an article in The Atlantic titled "The Missing Branch" writer Yuval Levin explains how the weakness of Congress has lead to expansion of the executive and judicial branches. We seem to have forgotten that the founder's solution to "no taxation without representation" was a two house Congress representing the people, the House of Representatives, and the states, the Senate. Congress is seat of the government, the President is there to execute the laws passed by Congress, and the Supreme Court is there to be sure the laws are within the bounds of the Constitution. Congress most important item of concern ought to be the preservation of its power to represent us, We The People, rather than making sure team Democrat or team Republican win.#

Missing from this article is any recognition by the Chief Justice that the U.S. Supreme Court has contributed the diminishing of the rule of law by decisions that make President above the law and turn money into speech. Every bad era of U.S. History has at its root Supreme Court decisions. #