Trump criticism
Do Democrats think their current strategy will help them win the next election? We will see whether they miscalculated.
Category Archives: Law and Society
Nietzschean polemics
Nietzsche’s ideas were iconoclastic, but he would never have advocated for an anti-semitic racial ideology like Nazism.
Feds eat their own: Michael Flynn encounters FBI’s collegial side
FBI could stand for Forgotten Buffoons and Ingrates, if their behavior were not so mean, destructive, and out-of-control.
Cruelty and rule of law
If we expand our conception of what is possible, we may grasp how we reached this point in our history.
Welcome to our country
I don’t follow your reasoning. Do you say that because your family came to America first, they deserve better treatment than families who come to America now?
Law enforcement when law does not exist
The greatest threat to our security does not come from abroad. It comes from people who wear badges, who display the name of their agency on the backs of their jackets. It comes from greedy, predatory officials who run a protection racket no one dares resist.
Reproductive rights and the Supreme Court
Yet we appear to have lost our confidence that efforts to compromise questions like reproductive rights can ever result in even partial agreement. At that point, the only acceptable settlement is divorce.
KKK, ICE, intimidation, and law
When you talk about use of cruelty to instill fear, the KKK and ICE have a good deal in common.
Bracamontes ad on Sunday Night Football
The ad is the worst piece of garbage dressed up as political propaganda I’ve ever seen. It is so bad I would not put it down my gargage disposal, because it would muck it up.
Rights and the law
I thought about rights and the law this week, as items in the news lead to those subjects these days.
End of freedom at Reed College
Reedies Against Racism undertook a mutiny, and succeeded. Consequently, they destroyed in twenty-four months, a set of traditions that developed over more than a century.
Silent Sam
Confederate soldiers and their families are not villains, either now or in history. Vandals who pull down monuments to their memory are.
