9th Circuit Panel Views Lying About Valor Awards as “Free Speech”
Xavier Alvarez, decked out in a US Army uniform with medals he never earned In November of 2006, Xavier Alvarez was elected to represent the city of Pomona on the board of the Three Valleys Municipal...
View ArticleProsecutor Who Indicted No One in Town Bully Shooting Retires
The late Ken Rex McElroy After 30 years, David Baird, prosecuting attorney of Nodoway County, Missouri, is retiring after being defeated 1,356 votes to 1,381 votes, a margin of 25 ballots, in the...
View ArticleObamacare’s Achilles Heel
Death of Achilles, Villa Reale, Milan Louis Case, at American Thinker, points out that the complicated Machiavellian shenanigans needed to get Obamacare through Congress inevitably include the...
View ArticleMichigan Judge Upholds Health Insurance Mandate
Michigan federal district Judge George Caram Steeh III upheld the Obamacare individual health insurance purchase mandate in a case challenging the law brought by the conservative Christian Thomas More...
View ArticleHow Is That Civilian Trials Policy Working Out For You, Mr. Holder?
The answer is: not well. The Embassy Bomber who killed 224 people in the simultaneous truck bomb attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 was acquitted in a Manhattan Federal District...
View ArticleGeneral Assembly Passes Self Defense Bill in Pennsylvania
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has passed a bill rejecting the “obligation to retreat” theory and vigorously affirming the right of self defense. Philadelphia Inquirer: “The...
View ArticleObamacare Unconstitutional
We knew that already. Federal judge Henry Hudson ruling in the lawsuit brought by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli agrees. There is nothing in the Constitution granting Congress the power to...
View ArticleHalf of US States Now Suing to Stop Obamacare
Some commentators thought the Supreme Court’s failure to grant cert in Alderman v. US, a 9th Circuit case involving possession of body armor by a felon, testing the reach of the Commerce Clause, may...
View ArticleTime For Some Gloating Over Obamacare’s Loss in Federal Court
Ouch! Not only are a majority of states in court challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare, federal judges keep ruling in their favor. The Washington Times cherishes Senior United States District...
View ArticleStoner Gets Workman’s Comp, But Business Closes
HuffPo quotes a humorous local events item from the Missoulian. The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a Workers’ Compensation Court ruling that about $65,000 in medical bills incurred by a man who was...
View ArticleNo Representation Against Left-Wing Causes
Demonstrators outside King & Spalding offices. John Hinderaker was appalled at the way the leading Atlanta law firm King & Spalding’s caved in to pressure. One of the saddest stories in the...
View ArticleDid Justice Kagan Break the Law By Failing to Recuse Herself?
One of the problems with appointing prominent members of a presidential administration to the Supreme Court is the issue that if litigation connected with a piece of legislation or executive order...
View ArticleStrange Law Day
Tennessee has passed a measure making it a crime to transmit by telephone, in writing or by electronic communication an image that would cause “emotional distress” “without legitimate purpose.”...
View ArticleTexas Is Not a Libertarian Utopia
A Texas mother received a felony conviction, five years probation, parenting classes, a small fine, and a scolding from a judge who has vocabulary problems (“quarrel” for “era”) for spanking her...
View ArticleBest Headline of the Week
The Washington Times’ editorial titled: Obama plays hide the Somali, which argues that the Obama administration hid captured Somali Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame on a US warship for two months before...
View ArticleBritain’s Riots
A man lies injured on the ground in Ealing, west London. He was beaten by rioters for attempting to put out a fire. ———————————————————————————— SayUncle produced the best line: What’s the cause of...
View ArticleEven the Innocent Pay in Massachusetts
The same Supreme Judicial Court that concluded a few years ago that the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 mandated Gay Marriage has recently concluded that the Bay State can enhance its revenues by...
View ArticleThe Regulatory State Abandons Ancient Principle of Law
“An unwarrantable act without vicious will is no crime at all.”—4 Bl. Comm. 21. ‘Historically, our substantive criminal law is based upon a theory of punishing the vicious will. It postulates a free...
View ArticleGingrich’s Best Moment Last Night
Newt Gingrich corrects the egregious idiot Scott Pelley’s liberal nonsense. When Bill Jacobson tweeted the video clip, Joan of Argghh responded in his comment section: That clip was so satisfying that...
View ArticleLiberal Law Professor Says Kagan Must Recuse Herself
It doesn’t happen very often, but once in a blue moon you actually find a liberal exhibiting intellectual honesty and standing up for real principles. George State Law Professor Eric Segall has the...
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