January 10, 2013

On Secession: An Analysis of Texas v. White

I was recently hired to review the Supreme Court opinion in the case of Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869). The opinion in that matter was written by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who had served in Lincoln's cabinet during the Civil War prior t...

December 10, 2010

Of Dignity and Want

President Obama's statement on the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo is being derided as another example of his narcissism, in the Washington Examiner and elsewhere.  However, I think most pundits have misse...

March 4, 2010

A solution to our previous solution

Yesterday I received from Representative Tim Walz what he described as his February E-Newsletter.  (I will not dwell on the fact that the February E-Newsletter did not make it out until March 3rd; other than to ponder a future of receiving our F...

February 27, 2010

A good comeback to 'So what's YOUR health care reform plan?'

I've noticed a common rhetorical ploy being used at every echelon of the health care debate, from the President on down to the local coffee shop loudmouth: the assumption of common goals. I hear "Okay, if you don't like our plan to insure the 4...

August 13, 2009

Let's Go With That Analogy

President Obama recently drew an analogy between the proposed, government funded, health care option and the United States Postal Service.  He reasoned: a government funded postal service hasn't put private parcel carriers out of business; there...