May 18, 2013
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Appeals court judge throws big temper tantrum
WASHINGTON — Earlier this week I chided President Obama for his remarks on the Supreme Court and the role of “unelected” judges. The president, wisely, has since chosen to clarify his statement, an...
Apr 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Former law professor should know better
WASHINGTON — There was something rather unsettling in President Obama’s pre-emptive strike on the Supreme Court at Monday’s news conference. “I’d just remind conservative commentators that for y...
Apr 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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THEIR GUY Pravda’s U.S. election choice not much of a surprise
The Soviet Union may be gone, but Pravda remains. Pravda (Russian for “truth”) was the official propaganda organ of the Communist Party, which also made it the national newspaper of the U.S.S.R. ...
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Legal charade based on nothing but statistics
A long-standing legal charade was played out again recently, when Federal Express paid $3 million to settle an employment discrimination case brought by the U.S. Department of Labor. Federal Exp...
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Legalizing drugs creates new problems
WASHINGTON — The human nervous system interacts in pleasing and addictive ways with certain molecules derived from some plants, which is why humans may have developed beer before they developed bre...
Apr 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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CORRUPT Illinois lawmakers abuse tuition waivers
Some students earn scholarships for superior academic performance. Some receive scholarships based on financial need. But in Illinois students can get scholarships simply by being the offspring ...
Apr 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ginsburg redefines term ‘conservative’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likes the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act and other ingredients of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka “ObamaCare.” Why, she asked toward...
Apr 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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FOLLY Little good can come from EU carbon tax
China and India are advising their airlines not to pay a newly imposed carbon tax on commercial airline flights landing in European Union countries. The world’s two most populous nations have be...
Apr 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sometimes we discover grace at unexpected times amidst pain, suffering, loneliness
I opened the garage to back my car out on Saturday morning and silently cursed at the car blocking part of my driveway, making a difficult task (backing out onto a busy street, something I never th...
Apr 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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OVERTAXED This is a distinction the U.S. doesn’t want
The U.S. can now claim an ignominious distinction: highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. Japan, trying to jump start its own stagnant economy, lowered its corporate tax rate from 39...
Apr 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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