Last week, I advanced the position here, which was called “bipolar” in another forum, that while the President ought to only very rarely determine a law to be unconstitutional, should he do so, he should not only decline to defend… Continue Reading
Since I’m enjoying the role of officious editor of long documents, here’s my take on the Bible, reduced to its essential elements and leaving in all the “good stuff”: In the beginning, the universe was created, the earth was formed,… Continue Reading
My firm’s probate practice requires us to frequently deal with people who are facing death. Sometimes it’s their own, sometimes it’s a loved one’s; sometimes the death is in the future and sometimes it is in the immediate past. One… Continue Reading
The other day I was escorting a prospect through the firm’s lobby. There were several people there, including another attorney who was talking with an attractive woman in her forties, and this attorney said, “You might want to talk to… Continue Reading
At The Atheist Experience, I find a set of six ‘questions’ from Ravi Zacharias, an evangelical Christian apologist. Matt D. at Atheist Experience does a fine job on his own behalf and I commend his thoughts on the issues Zacharias… Continue Reading
I’m a bit tired of the headlines. Today’s Supreme Court case is not about the Supreme Court striking down a law prohibiting animal cruelty. No one on the Court is in favor of animal cruelty. It’s about Congress overreaching and… Continue Reading
I’ve literally no idea how I found this story. But it sent chills up my spine.
To call something an inherent good is to say, at some level, that an intellectual examination of a moral value has reached a stopping point. But it is certainly possible to at least try to explain why something is held… Continue Reading
The American culture wars strike me as astonishingly silly and yet deeply scary at the same time. It’s hard to say what recent volley is more bothersome to me. Could it be people who are getting The Diary Of Anne… Continue Reading