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I was graduated from Yale University in 1963 with a B.A. in economics and from the University of Virginia School of law, where I was the notes editor of the Virginia Law Review, in 1966. Following four years of active duty with the Army JAG Corps, with two tours in Korea, I entered private practice in Washington, D.C. specializing in communications law. I retired in 1996 to sail with my wife, Jeanie, on our sailboat Namaste to and in the Caribbean. In 2002, we settled in the Republic of Panama and live in a very rural area up in the mountains.
I now contribute to China Daily Mail and Opinion Forum. I have contributed to Pajamas Media and Pajamas Tatler.
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Category Archives: Abuse of Power
What Purposes Would Federal Background Checks and Firearm Registries Serve?
Probably not only the purposes our devoted civil savants advance to justify them I’m not a stupid racist, so you don’t scare me! Uh, you do work for the DHS — don’t you? * * * * * * Stuff … Continue reading
The Bill of Rights and Constitutional Interpretation
Part III Part I dealt with guns and the Second Amendment. Part II dealt mainly with the First Amendment. This Part III looks at the origins and purposes of the Bill of Rights and questions the direction in which our … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Obama's America, Abuse of Power, Bill of Rights, Commerce Clause, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Court packing, Courts, Declaration of Independence, Democracy, Education, Free Press, free speech, Freedom, Freedom of religion, Health Control, History, Ideology, Law, Law and Order, Obama, Politics, President Obama, Regulations, United States
Tagged government, human-rights, religion
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People Control, the First Amendment and Article V
Part II Part I dealt mainly with the Second Amendment. This Part II deals principally with the First Amendment and how the Constitution gets changed. Part III will deal mainly with the Bill of Rights in general. Introduction President Obama’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Obama's America, Abortion, Abuse of Power, Belief, Commerce Clause, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Courts, Culture, Democracy, Elections, free speech, Freedom of religion, Good stuff for everone free, Government and individual choices, Government reliance, Health Control, History, Islamist rage, Law and Order, Libruls, Murder, Obama, ObamaCare, Political Correctness, Religion, States' Rights, Supreme Court, United States
Tagged politics, second inaugural address
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A Librul’s Views on Gun Control, Wealth Redistribution and Welfare
This is a guest post by the Very Honorable Ima Librul, Senator from the State of Confusion Utopia. He recently explained some of his difficulties in growing pineapples and focuses here on other major problems and opportunities facing modern American … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Obama's America, Abuse of Power, Chavez, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats, Department of Defense, Equality, Executive Decree, Fairness, Feminists, Government reliance, Gun control, Health Control, Humor, Libruls, Mexico, Nonsense, Obama, ObamaCare, Republicans, Satire, United States, Venezuela
Tagged governmental largesse, politics, wealthy citizens
11 Comments
Cult of Personality: Who comes to mind?
North Korea, Venezuela and other countries have them. Instead of freedom they provide a benevolent hero to worship. The leader of a cult of personality has real power in his own right and/or is a front for others, some of whom … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Obama's America, Abuse of Power, Chavez, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Cult of personality, Culture, Democracy, Democrats, Elections, Freedom, Government reliance, Kim Dynasty, Korea, Law and Order, Obama, Political class, Stalin, United States, Venezuela
Tagged cult of personality, media and propaganda
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Fixing The Creator’s Worst Mistake.
By His Supreme Excellency, Barack Hussein Obama The first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence refers to “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” However, according to the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, We hold these truths to … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Obama's America, Abuse of Power, Congress, Constitution, Creator, Debt limit, Declaration of Independence, Elections, Equality, Executive Decree, Fairness, Federal budget, Freedom, Government reliance, Gun control, Humor, Law, Military, Obama, Politics, Satire, States' Rights, United States
Tagged certain unalienable rights, government, politics
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Can we Dumb things down Enough?
Arguments that appeal to reason rarely appeal to emotion. Nor do they appeal to uninformed voters who are not interested. Can we have better informed and more rational voters? Democrats realize that rational thought does not appeal to many voters … Continue reading
Posted in Obama, Democracy, Freedom, Israel, Conservatives, Republicans, Media, United States, Iran, Law and Order, Jews, Administrative Agencies, Abuse of Power, the Basics, Politics, Culture, Islamist rage, Democrats, Constitution, Debt limit, States' Rights, Money, Nonsense, Government reliance, Governor Romney, Government and individual choices, Allen West, Insanity, Racism, Propaganda, Congress, Campaign contributions, Illegal immigration, Mormons, Osama bin Laden, Egypt, Libya, Muslim Brotherhood, 2016 Obama's America, al Qaeda, Economics, Education
Tagged government, politics, congressman paul ryan, uninformed voters
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If Reason and Compromise don’t Work, how about Music? Civil War could be a bad Alternative.
Music and verse have long encouraged churches, nations and others. Perhaps it’s time to try that again. Yesterday, I posted this piece because it provided a brief respite from the horrors of what now passes for civilization. It includes two … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Obama's America, Abuse of Power, Appeasement, Belief, Chamberlain, Christians, Conservatives, Constitution, Cultural differences, Democrats, Dignity, Economics, Elections, England, Food stamps, Formerly Great Britain, free speech, Freedom, Good stuff for everone free, Government and individual choices, Government reliance, Greece, Health Control, History, Islamist rage, Israel, Law and Order, Limitation on Authority, ObamaCare, Obamaphone, Political Correctness, Politics, Religion, Socialism, States' Rights, Thanksgiving, United States, War on women
Tagged flash mobs, irish rebellion, politics
7 Comments
Is the Republican Party Dead or Dying? Part I
Should we put it on life support and hope that it survives or attempt to displace it gradually with something better? Yesterday, I received a gracious e-mail from the Obama-Biden campaign thanking me personally for all that I had done: … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse of Power, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Corruption, Cultural differences, Democracy, Democrats, Elections, Freedom, Good stuff for everone free, Government and individual choices, Government reliance, Herman Cain, Hispanic, History, Ideology, Illegal immigration, Islamist rage, la Raza, Law and Order, Limitation on Authority, Obama, Opinion, Political class, Politics, Principles, Republicans, Right wing extremists, Socialism, Society, States' Rights, the Basics, United States, Voting
Tagged obama, politics
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The Election Results I didn’t Want came.
It should have gone the other way but didn’t. There are reasons for that. We could have exercised more control than we did over some but the most important of them were no longer in our hands. It was a … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Obama's America, 9-11, Abortion, Abuse of Power, Administrative Agencies, Birth control, Blacks, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Courts
Tagged politics
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