All posts by Dan Barton

Hein’s legacy and Ulster’s future

Hein’s legacy and Ulster’s future

What’s next for Ulster? That’s a good question and a complicated one, with many possible answers. It could well end up a political knife fight for the ages, but it’s also a chance for the voters to take stock of where we are and think where we might want to head as a county.

Brett Kavanaugh shouldn’t be a Supreme Court justice

Brett Kavanaugh shouldn’t be a Supreme Court justice

It comes down to empathy. To grope, try to undress and then cover the mouth of someone else to prevent that person from screaming for help indicates to me a dramatic lack of perception of the fear that person is feeling in that moment. That’s an empathy deficit of profound depth. While we all can grow out of many things, I don’t know if anyone can go from being like that to being able to get over the extraordinarily high bar to be on the Supreme Court.