During this early December time of remembrance of the “sneak attack” on Pearl Harbor some 82 years ago there comes to mind what is no more than a footnote in some out-of-print history book. The topic is coined “Back Door to War” by one Charles Beard. The theory of Mr. Beard has just a dash […]
Has chivalry risen from the grave? Has woman’s lib withered on the vine? The context here is the ongoing (as of this writing on 11/28/23) holding of hostages in Gaza by Hamas militants in the wake of their October 7th attack on Israel. As of this writing there are hostages being released by Hamas and […]
On this second day of November 2023 the SCOTSI handed a public reprimand to Attorney General Theodore (Todd) Rokita for intemperate and untrue extrajudicial statements made by him while trying to soak up publicity as a hero to the anti-choice crowd in the days following the 2022 SCOTUS reversal of Roe v. Wade. While Ohio […]
No, I have no neighbor named Hamas. But there are a couple of million peaceful Gaza Strip residents who do. This exercise in rational thought is mostly about them. Let’s suppose that my actual neighbor is seen launching mortar rounds toward City Hall and doing so from his backyard. I may dislike City Hall, but […]
A CLB Appellate Case Note of October 20, 2023 was titled “Don’t Tell the Lawyer” and pertained to the damnable failure of prosecutors, a trial court judge, and a gutless public defender in the compulsion of testimony by a lawyer against his former client in a criminal prosecution. The lawyer testified to a confidential admission […]
The title to this offbeat Featured Article has nothing to do with church attendance or the viewing of NFL games. The title has to do with NBC’s Sunday morning program Meet the Press. I count myself among the regular viewers of the program, though my interest in the Sunday morning “talking heads” began a good […]
According to published accounts, September 30, 2023 is a deadline for prevention of a federal government shutdown. For shutdown prevention, Congress needs a “CR” or Continuing Resolution to allow more deficit spending, which seems to be the federal government’s favorite type of spending. It looks like a few House Republicans known as the “Freedom Caucus” […]
Update: On September 27, 2023 published news accounts reported King to be “back in U.S. custody,” in good health, and happy to return. The CLB hopes that the U.S. made no meaningful concessions to secure the release. The opinions of this Article are my own. The facts asserted are from published or broadcast accounts. While […]
On June 8th of this year, former president Donald Trump was indicted a second time for, in short, possession of classified documents outside of his tenure as president. He ignored requests to return said documents and impeded the investigation of his Mar-a-Lago home, where the documents were being kept. There is speculation about whether he […]
It’s in the Blog Introduction that I am an enthusiastic “little d” democrat and a less enthused “big D” Democratic Party member. The practice of “splitting” my ticket in the general election voting booth is not the problem so much as the absence of any worthy candidate from either of the two major political parties. […]