On Tuesday, Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, delayed the Senate's August recess, which our columnist says is a confession that Republicans haven't gotten the job done, despite having control of Washington.
Mr Heyward likens it to the Catholic concept of a confession - but a confession that also operates as a business.
If your answer feels like a confession, that's good.
There have been murder confessions that later proved false.
Despite her confession that she is "scared of everything", she was audacious and indefatigable, fuelled less by courage, perhaps, than the naïve belief born in the cloister of privilege that everything will always be OK, if only one endeavours to make it so.
As for the most popular memes, Romney's confession that he likes "Big Bird" despite being willing to cut funding to Sesame Street's host channel PBS turned the term into the top pre-election day phrase.
In 1994 Davis co-wrote "Alice's Brady Bunch Cookbook," a collection of Brady-themed recipes and anecdotes, despite her confession that she was clueless in the kitchen.
As Kyle recovered, Abra came close to admitting his paternity, however lost his nerve at the last minute and departed from the show once more, despite Jenny's confession that she still loved him.
So despite his protestations, it looks like Lipschis will be brought to trial – something probably not helped by his confession that he had "heard about" what was going on at the camps. .
Human Rights Watch cited the case of Mr. Ismail, saying that a lawyer who represented him said he had been sentenced to death partly on the basis of a confession despite evidence that it had been obtained under torture.
