My plan is to run chronologically through a series of U.S. Supreme Court cases and attempt to make them comprehensible to the intelligent layman. While my focus will be on constitutional issues, I may deviate from that from time to… Continue Reading
I wanted to share a quick thought about E.D. Kain’s very recent column at Forbes, but (sorry, Erik) commenting at Forbes is a laborious process which I have never successfully completed. I’m not even going to try this time. Thus,… Continue Reading
Today is “Opposite Day” here at the League. My favorite subject here is Constitutional law and I typically take a textualist approach to the subject. So in the spirit of the day, I offer here a manifesto of Constitutional interpretation… Continue Reading
On Doctor Saunders’ endorsement, I have been keeping my eyes open for Lagavulin to see how it compares with my favored Laphroiag. Costco had 16-year Lagavulin for fifty dollars. I was going to pass on it, but then recalled that… Continue Reading
Jerry Sienfeld jokes that “Fun for the whole family… isn’t.” Today, I groused to my paralegal that practicing law used to be fun. She’s recently divorced and groused back that dating is supposed to be fun but isn’t anymore. We… Continue Reading
A collapse of the Eurozone would be a disaster of 1929-like proportions. But what’s for us in the United States to do about it? The Eurozone is a bigger economy than the USA, and there are a multiplicity of apparently… Continue Reading
Asked with sincerity, not snark. To a Muslim, Islam is the “voluntary submission to God.” How is that different than the Christian concept of grace?
I’m enjoying the process of deflagging quotes. Today, I came across an article on Slate describing what are portrayed as theocratic tendencies among Republican Presidential candidates. So without referencing the original Slate article with these quotes, see if you can match… Continue Reading
Inspired by Tod Kelly’s claim that we U.S. Americans are really closer to one another politically than we think, following is a quiz. All remarks are taken from the speeches of either John McCain or Barack Obama accepting their respective… Continue Reading
It seems to be something of a retrospective, arms-akimbo, looking backwards in satisfaction sort of mood up at the front page. I was the first sub-blogger invited to particiapte in the community here like this, and the experiment has always felt… Continue Reading