Everyone is blogging, talking, and tweeting about the profile of General Stanley McChrystal in the current edition of Rolling Stone, which hit the Internets today. What seems to be catching everyone’s attention is a combination of the dismissive to disrespectful… Continue Reading
Ah, the missed opportunities felt by students with “B” but not “B+” grades! Well, this never happened when I went to Loyola Law School. I, like so many other people with good-but-not-great grades, was stuck living with the consequences of… Continue Reading
David Makoeya was a 61-year-old man who lived in Limpopo Province, Republic of South Africa. Like any sports fan would be, he was excited about the world’s biggest sporting event coming to his nation, and he wanted to watch Germany… Continue Reading
When I first seriously looked at Barack Obama as a candidate for President, the thing I liked best was that he took civil liberties seriously. He really got it that freedom is what America is realy, really, all about. If… Continue Reading
Today will be the closing arguments in the Federal challenge to California’s Proposition 8. By the close of business, Pacific time, the case will be in the hands of Judge Vaughn Walker. It will almost certainly be appealed to the… Continue Reading
You know, I have to feel sorry for the church whose famous six-story statue of Jesus arising from a reflecting pool was struck by lightning and burned to its metal skeleton yesterday. No, really, I do. It was an expensive… Continue Reading
Twice in as many weeks, it has been revealed that the Obama Administration has offered White House jobs to prominent primary challengers to incumbent Democrats. Once in Pennsylvania and now, we learn, in Colorado. The idea seems to be to… Continue Reading
The Supreme Court today handed down a case in which they made it clear that a criminal suspect must invoke his Miranda rights or they are waived. While that sounds bad at first blush, on the facts of the case,… Continue Reading
I’m not so sure I enjoy seeing tension involving Israel — particularly when it appears that the antagonists are trying to draw Turkey into a side adverse to Israel. This would be an excellent time for a diplomatic effort to… Continue Reading
As a colleague put it to me yesterday, it’s amazing the amount of nothing that is happening in the world. It seems that there is a lot of fruitless effort to do something about the oil spill in the Gulf… Continue Reading