What I’m going to do here is try to condense the 116 pages of legal opinion, dense with legal citation, historical research, and policy analysis, that makes up the majority opinion of the Marriage Cases. I realize that this post… Continue Reading
Sufficient numbers of superdelegates, and sufficient stopgap proportional results from other states trickling in, and maybe even the Edwards endorsement, places the idea of BHO clinching the Democratic nomination before going in to the convention within the realm of realistic… Continue Reading
Yesterday, as I left court, I held the door open for a man who thanked me, saying I’m “a gentleman and a scholar.” “Well, a scholar, at least,” I replied and we both laughed. But I was something of a… Continue Reading
If the following things all apply to your photo-enforcement red-light violation case… 1. You were actually the driver of the vehicle; and 2. The police officer actually shows up and answers “ready” for trial; and 3. Prior to trial, the… Continue Reading
I’m still very pleased about the ruling in the Marriage Cases and anxious for time to read and digest the whole thing. Looks like I’ll have to wait until tonight. It really makes me proud to be a Californian and… Continue Reading
The constitutional amendment initiative to undo today’s ruling has been in circulation for some time now. The text of the proposed initiative may be found on the last page of this file, and it would add a new Section 7.5… Continue Reading
The entire opinion — 175 pages — can be read here, at the Supreme Court’s website. I’m at work and I have some things to finish today, so at the moment I don’t have time to read the whole thing… Continue Reading
From time to time, I see articles with headlines like this one: “Five Mistakes Women Make At The Doctor’s Office“ I haven’t read the article very closely, but the mistakes are: 1) not questioning the doctor; 2) over-researching; 3) not… Continue Reading
In an interesting post, Kieran Bennett describes reviewing 114 stories of people who abandoned their faith (almost all of them former Christians). He could identify reasons in 94 of them. I am moderately surprised not at the reasons, but instead… Continue Reading
The regime in Burma is being astonishingly slow to let in international aid. There are grisly photographs of tens of corpses floating in overflowing riverbanks. It would be inhuman to not want to see aid workers get in there, distribute… Continue Reading