It is always a pleasant surprise when I find myself sitting next to someone doing something significant for little reward, applause, recognition, if any at all. Today, I sat next to a fellow attorney in a meeting as our general counsel announced that this attorney, a man with many decades of legal experience more than myself and something of […]
How to use reason and not kill a conversation
December 31, 2010 by
How often have you been in conversation when someone makes an argument and provides absolutely no evidence or rationale for it? They take the argument as so self-evident that there really is nothing you can do to add to the conversation. No evidence has been provided, the facts–such as they are–have been disregarded, dismissed, ignored, […]
We are all just pawns: moral ambivalence & criminal offenses in the Clinton Cabinet
December 17, 2010 by
I read a startling story yesterday. Former Joint Chiefs of Staff retired General Hugh Shelton says in his memoir that in 1997 a Clinton cabinet member suggested letting Saddam Hussein shoot down a U2 spy plane to create a ruse to go to war against Iraq. It would provide for international sympathy and justification the Clinton Administration felt it needed […]
The Commerce Clause argument in Virginia v. Sebelius, among others
December 14, 2010 by
Yesterday, the headlines shouted that individual mandate of the Affordable Health Care for America Act (let’s just call it “the Act” for short) was found unconstitutional by a federal court in Virginia. (see my short post on it here) Partisan critics of the ruling were quick to point out that there have already been two cases […]
Constitutional amendments from the folks who love it most
December 8, 2010 by
Indubitably, during the recent election, one of the major rallying points of Tea Party aligned voters was the US Constitution and its interpretation. Indeed, although the Tea Party started out as primarily a revolt against perceived spending policies of the Obama Administration and the Democratic controlled Congress (for example, the Affordable Health Care for America Act and the […]
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