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  The balcony in my apartment where I live in Indianapolis offers a decent-ish view of the Fourth-of-July fireworks display the city puts on every year. I can usually see two-thirds of the show, the medium bursts and high bursts; the one-third that I cannot see, the low burst, is blocked by a building between me and where the fireworks are launched from. But that's okay. Its usually a pretty good show. I stand on my balcony and drink a beer and watch as Indianapolis celebrates our country's continued experiment in representative government.  The fireworks we watch today are inspired by the bombardment of Fort McHenry that began on September 13th, 1814 (be honest now, how many of you thought this was a revolutionary war event?). This is, of course, the event witnessed by Francis Scott Key and memorialized in a poem he wrote the next day upon waking to see the American flag still flying above the fort the morning of September 14th. That poem was later set to music and became our

  The Supreme Court has just ruled that a President of the United States cannot be punished for "official acts." That being the case, President Biden should do the following: 1) Suspend all further elections, at least for the office of President, and declare himself to be "President-for-Life".  2) Proclaim that a successor of his choosing will be named President upon his death. 3) Disband the Supreme Court and replace it with Justices entirely of his own choosing. 4) Declare the Republican party to be an illegal entity. (Fun Fact, the U.S. Constitution nowhere dictates the existence of political parties. It allows for them but doesn't say they must exist.) 5) Arrest Donald Trump for the charge of Treason. 6) Declare that the right to interpret the Constitution of the United States is his alone.  7) Proclaim all these to be "official acts". There will be a lot of protest and rioting in the streets as a result of these official acts, so President Biden s