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How the Supreme Court could make the right kind of history in its gay...
The Bloomberg headline on its “View”, a section of the web-paper that operates roughly the same as an ordinary fish-wrap newspaper’s editorial column devoted to issuing its own opinions, explained the...
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Jack McCullough’s conviction on eyewitness testimony over a half-century...
A former Washington state police officer, Jack McCullough, 73, was sentenced today (December 12, 2012) to life in prison for having kidnapped and murdered a seven year old girl, Maria Ridulph, in...
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A bit more on Jack McCullough’s wrongful conviction…
I crafted a post Wednesday (December 12, 2012) on a story on which I had only the sketchiest of details. Just going from the Associated Press wire reports of the conviction and sentencing (that day) of...
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Arrest in Homewood, Alabama triple homicide is another example of why capital...
This person is accused of brutally murdering a Homewood (a suburb of Birmingham), Alabama mother and two of her sons, ages four and five. The murders took place last Friday (December 14, 2012) in the...
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The Curmudgeon’s views on gun control
(Note: This is a repost of an article I wrote last summer after the Aurora, CO theater shootings which described my views on gun control. It’s as relevant today, after Newtown, as it was then. I...
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The US has become apocalyptically ungovernable
Between the fiscal cliff political panderings and the hilarity being espoused on both sides of the gun control debate, it may well be that the end times are nigh, at least for the US. The republic...
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In all the fiscal cliff hullabaloo, you may have missed that Obama again...
He did it again, but worse this time. When Obama signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, he objected in writing to its provision allowing for the indefinite detention of US citizens by the...
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Sandy Hook Elementary is a hard case, which is why it will make bad law
It was Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , a veritable fount of philosophical wisdom disguised in juridical clothes (one of the only few in history who could be so acclaimed), who...
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Does Obama’s second inauguration represent the Second Coming?
inaugurate: tr.v. 1. To induct into office by a formal ceremony. 2. To cause to begin, especially initially or formally; inaugurate a new immigrant policy. See synonyms at Begin. To open or begin use...
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Finally, some few from Obama’s side of the aisle begin questioning whether it...
First, a side bar–had you been reading TCA, you would have all along been informed about the outrageous assassination regime instituted by President Obama, who decided that he would kill, instead of...
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The queerest market in the history of mankind…
…has got to be the market for the delivery of medical goods and services in the United States. As much as I try to wrap my brain around it, I can’t. The profits are enormous; the outcomes, rather...
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The Curmudgeon’s case for vastly liberalizing US immigration law and policy
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
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The Defense of Marriage Act should be invalidated as unconstitutional, but...
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people....
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The perverse consequences and incentives of Alabama’s school choice bill (the...
Throughout most of human history and in most societies, parents and the local communities in which they live have been primarily responsible for ensuring children were properly reared and educated. For...
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There must be…23 ways to leave your lover: The 23 categories US immigration...
In a previous post on immigration law and policy, I provided a thumbnail sketch of US law and policy as it concerned people seeking to immigrate to the US, i.e., people seeking to become permanent US...
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The confused mess of the immigration reform bill
Give ‘em credit for trying. The Senators attempting to hammer out a comprehensive immigration reform bill have come up with something. But their premises are wrong, so they reforms they propose are...
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Three hundred plus dead in Bangladesh lends perspective to the Boston...
We obsess over three dead people, a couple hundred injured. It seems a bit extreme. The Boston Marathon bombing was nothing more than a pathetic attempt to express rage by a couple of disillusioned...
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The Supreme Court’s recent rulings on gay marriage, voting rights and...
That august body of the modern-day version of Plato’s guardians, commonly known as the US Supreme Court, has been quite busy lately, issuing three “landmark” opinions in the last week. In the first,...
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How America lost Ukraine when it won the Cold War
For people not old enough to remember what the world was like before the Berlin Wall fell, there was a time when the United States faced an existential threat the world over. The Soviet Union, who we...
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Are animals people, too?
The New York Times ran a quite ridiculous article (Should a chimp be able to sue its owner?) in its weekend magazine about Steven Wise, a law professor cum animal activist who is trying to establish a...
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