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Keeping Score: A Weak Week For The Supreme Court
Supreme Court rulings this week: I guess one out of three wasn’t so bad. It could have been worse. It could have been zero for three. These statistics are likely to get worse before they get better. Immigration President Obama got what he deserved for overreaching,...
You Do The Math. Please!
The continuing ineptness of Congress to find a means to at least reduce the number of assault guns of mass destruction in the hands of those who have no business being able to lawfully purchase them continued this past week. Here’s what a dear friend of mine, a...
The Clock is Ticking
Editor's Note: This is for all you out there (?) who think lawyers can do no wrong, and are . . . our heroes! Hello. Anyone still there, still reading? You should be, it'll give you some (more) ammunition. Most professionals belong to one or more trade associations....
Contests and Communities
Some of The Field People play at all kinds of contests. Some for fun. Some more seriously. Let’s look at a few examples: How about sports? We have team sports. Football. Basketball. We have individual sports. Golf. Tennis. Contests one and all. No? Wouldn’t you also...
What Then When Da Judge Loses His . . . Judgment
Editor's Note: Warning, this blog is a bit lengthy. It's worth reading, but you may want to break it up and take it in parts, perhaps the first two in the first sitting and the second two in the second sitting. However, for what it's worth, I wrote it in one sitting....
Is It Really All That Complicated?
With all that was known about this man,* he was able to legally buy an assault weapon of mass destruction. Shame on whom? http://bit.ly/1WLrs3H How many more deaths, how many more wounded, will it take until those who are able to do something about this finally act?...
Like Father, Like Sons and Daughters
In 2014, President Obama issued an "executive order" extending "temporary" protection against deportation to nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants. Texas and 25 other states filed suit seeking to invalidate and bar Obama's action on the grounds that it is not an...
Once More . . . With FEELING
Adrianne Haslet-Davis was standing in a crowd of spectators at the 2013 Boston Marathon, watching her heroes, when explosions ripped through the crowd. She lost the lower part of her left leg. But she survived. Because, after all, she is . . . a survivor....
The Straw that Broke The Camel’s Back: Hypocrisy Or Hippocracy
Starting June 9, under a concept euphemistically known as “aid-in-dying,” terminally ill Californians can request prescriptions from physicians for medications that would allow them to end their lives. This is not to be confused with euthanasia, under which a third...
Never Underestimate The Value Of Strong, Effective, Quality Counseling
Under the capable auspices of Karen Dionne and Kelly Meister, The Wife and I and a handful of other privileged writing students spent the past week at the Salt Cay Writers Retreat in The Bahamas, being counseled by the likes of bestselling authors Lee Child, Ann Hood...
