On this day in 1737, Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England. If we look to men like George Washington, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton as our founding fathers, we should look to Thomas Paine as the irritable, curmudgeonly, and… Continue Reading
A woman in Bellflower gave birth to octuplets yesterday. All eight tiny babies survived and are expected to survive, in what is thought to be only the second time in history that has happened. Personal details on the mother and… Continue Reading
Prof. Shaun Martin (who runs one of the best California law blogs out there) is right to be morally judgmental about this case, Jane Doe v. California Lutheran High School Association et. al. The facts are simple. The outcome is… Continue Reading
The law, once again, guides the way. A doctor from New York found his marriage failing. So too was his wife’s health. He donated his kidney and saved her life. She was grateful — but not grateful enough to continue… Continue Reading
A depressingly-familiary story — with the breaking of the southern cease-fire by the Gaza faction of Hamas, Israel has responded by shelling locations where the Hamas attackers have been shooting rockets over the border. Innocent civilians have died on both… Continue Reading
As a further evidence that torture is unnecessary to achieve our foreign policy goals — even the sub rosa gathering of intelligence about enemy movements — I refer you Readers to this piece in today’s WaPo. As it turns out,… Continue Reading
An American man, a retired university professor, suffers from motor neurone disease, which deprived him of the ability to use his arms and legs and requires the use of a ventilator to stay alive. This is the same disease that… Continue Reading
No torture. Ever. That’s an issue that the Democrats had been pushing the White House on for a long time before the election, after Abu Ghraib came to light and accusations of torture in the Guantánamo Bay terrorist prison began… Continue Reading
We advocates of same-sex marriage need to face up to a fact that we will find unpleasant: we do not yet have a sufficient popular consensus behind our policy to implement it. Yes, this is a case of America having… Continue Reading
A few days ago, I wrote in summary of a discussion I had with a friend, who is also a lawyer, concerning Proposition 8. We’ve exchanged a few more thoughts since then. I’ve written extensively about Proposition 8 and same-sex… Continue Reading