Name a President of the United States who, at the time of election
Was unfamiliar with the constitutional duties of the Vice President;
Did not know the name and function of Justice Department; and
Whose only prior full term government experience was as a small town mayor?
Hmmm. Let me think. Ulysses S. Grant? Nah …. He was never [...]
Only in America would an annual occasion for family gathering and giving of thanks for our bounty – Thanksgiving Day – be followed by an annual rite of economic gluttony and lost values – Black Friday. You would think a day of reflection deserves a bit more of a breather before people descend on stores [...]
The Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University’s Medill School is small scale compared to the efforts of the ACLU and some of the other state innocence projects that struggle to identify and free wrongly convicted inmates. But Professor David Protess’s undergraduate project has been successful, securing the release of 11 inmates since 1999, 5 of them on [...]
This is the second of a two part post. Part I can be read here.
Out of the post-Vietnam ashes of liberal idealism born in the Great Depression came the conservative revolution that has held sway for the last 30 years or so. With it has come the worship of individual wealth and freedom from sacrifice.
Yet [...]
On Veterans Day, the anniversary of the World War I Armistice, we pause for a moment to remember those who served in our Armed Forces. We honor the sacrifice of those who fought, those who were grievously wounded and those who died in our name.
Amidst those somber recollections there should be some broader reflection on [...]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address included these well-remembered words:
[T]he only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
He was speaking, of course, in the depths of the Great Depression, one of the greatest crises faced by the world.
In some contemporary [...]
Justices of the United States Supreme Court are not known for their candor about the inner workings of the Court. Justice Clarence Thomas apparently did not get the memo on that.
Justice Thomas recently delivered the annual Albritton Lecture at the University of Alabama Law School and made news – some might say he really stepped [...]
All we like sheep, have gone astray. – Handel, Messiah
Here is an analogy you will not see on the SAT:
consumers are to the economy as livestock are to the food industry
Yeow! Perhaps that puts too fine a point on it. Or not.
Here in the midst of the Great Recession, there is more than a little [...]
