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Hypocrite Extraordinaire
In Texas Bush executed with pleasure a born- again Christian (like himself) named Karla Fay Tucker. Her problem was she confessed totally to her heinous crime instead of lying forever, like most of them. Her crime was committed while she was on coke/booze- something Bush did a lot of once, but still refuses to admit. Even the Pope and the ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by redneckliberalpostbush on November 23, 2008
Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..
... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008
Amazing that Americans Have This Discussion
Having studied American civics in grade school and high school, and having my doubts that Bush Cheney or anyone else in our current White House similarly learned about American history, traditions, institutions and law, it continually amazes me that this Bush Cheney Presidency has run riot so egregiously. Congress? Lay down. The Courts? Lay ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008
Sexual Hypocrisy, Law Enforcement & the InterNET
Thanks for a very interesting and thoughtful article that addressed current events, came up with new approaches, and put it all together neatly in one, entertaining article. My view on those folks who would employ our law enforcement authorities to charge and convict individual InterNET users, is somewhat different. I see these forceful, legal ...
Posted to Human Nature by MichaelBernard1 on July 8, 2008
Government abuse of power
South Dakotas law relating to doctor patient communication and abortion: This is just another method for people using and abusing government power. They attempt to control others and legislate morality by forcing their beliefs (usually based on their religion) upon all of society. Their goal is to limit freedom and force conformity with their ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by den99md on July 4, 2008
Noble Emergencies of Good Intentions
I think the unstated background of this article is even more signifcant than its foreground (valuable as Ms. Lithwick's observations always are!). The Founding generation's mistrust of 'government' such that they thought primarily in terms of how to cage the thing has been replaced by a sense that government's operatives are 'just folks' and are ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by odysseus on May 26, 2008
Shulevitz & Structuring
So, are comments by those of us with ''Y'' chromosomes welcome in this forum? ;-) Anyway, Shulevitz raises a valid point, I believe, at least with the first question, and I think it's a valid concern. As an employee of a Very Large Financial Institution (VLFI), I can attest that while it has been law for many years that all ''large'' cash ...
Posted to XX Factor by wrongainey on March 21, 2008
Democrats in Congress Failed Us All 8 Years
The Democrats and Democratic Party failed to stand up for what is right for the entire eight years of the Bush / Cheney White House misrule. They gave away our American two-party system; they gave away majority rule; they gave away our civil rights and bill of rights and civil liberties; they gave away the constitutional authority of the ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on January 30, 2008
Why I'm an American in Exile...
On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007
Maybe a workaround would work
If a ballot initiative changing the way electors are chosen is unconstitutional, why not try an initiative which directs the state legislature to make the change prior to the next election? It would at least allow for entertaining legal challenges to ensue.
Posted to Jurisprudence by petronius on September 13, 2007

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