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A Question Prompted by a Guest on The John Batchelor Show


February 5, 2015 --

1) ...for Loretta Lynch, nominated to succeed Eric Holder as U.S. attorney general:

Does the U.S. Constitution authorize the president to make law when he, in the words of a New York Times editorial, "has given up waiting for Congress to act?"

2) ...for weatherpersons on radio and tv:

As long as you refer to a wind-chill factor to make the outside temperature colder than the thermometer shows, why not report a "sun warmth factor" when there is bright sunshine -- as in: " the temperature is 25 degrees, but the sun-warmth factor makes it seem like 40 degrees?