‘Opinion’ Articles
Break up the banks: How Ron Paul and Elizabeth Warren can change the world
Elizabeth Warren, to her great credit, is calling for restoring the Glass-Steagall Act, protecting John and Jane Doe from banks that are too big to fail. Ron Paul, to his equally great credit, opposed ending the Glass-Steagall Act, and for this Paul deserves a standing ovation.The issue is simple: When John and Jane or grandma and grandpa put [...]
Louis H. Pollak: 1922-2012
If there is any better man, lawyer, appellate advocate, federal judge, law school educator and dean than Louis H. Pollak, who died last week, I don’t know him, and might never find him. Acclaimed nationally as civil-rights advocate, law professor and judge, Lou made being a lawyer a class act. I met Pollak as a graduate student at Yale Law [...]
Rand Paul mocks libertarian philosophy with anti-gay cheap shot at Obama
True libertarians do not care what people do in their private lives.Phony libertarians use private-life issues as partisan political weapons, as the pseudo-libertarian Rand Paul does in his low-grade comments that mock honorable libertarianism as much as they mock President Obama.
Free will
On the issue of same-sex marriage, reasonable people can agree that any two consenting adults can have relationships in which they can live together, sleep together, eat and do whatever they wish together; this is a free society in which free will is granted to us by our creator.However, by simply doing these things, they do not get to redefine a [...]
‘Armed revolution’? A century of states’ rights ahead
“States rights’, states’ rights, states’ rights!” — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, April 16, 2009, at The AlamoA Zen history or anthropology of current times can be drawn on events that have occurred in the past three years that will undoubtedly change our American world, possibly for a century or two.Three historic events have occurred, and [...]
Still a bully after all these years?
When the Obama team blungeoned Mitt Romney with a statement he made in 2007 about Osama bin Laden — that it was "not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person” — Romney shot back that of course he too would have tried to take out bin Laden. In an exasperated tone, Romney added, “Even [...]
If you like JP Morgan’s $2 billion loss, you will like Mitt Romney and love Ron Paul
In my column this week about the great populist wave, I challenged the pseudo-capitalism of the right. A new example has emerged with the disclosure that JP Morgan has lost $2 billion from blunders very similar to those that caused the financial crash. I recognize that in some circles on the Republican right my opinion is not welcome, but [...]
Fire Joe Biden
Possibly because of the Obama/Hollywood fete this week with Obama yukking it up with George Clooney and the Beautiful People, I keep getting this annoying image of Joe Biden in “Apocalypse Now” with Obama as the Brando baldy Col. Kurtz, the god-king gone mad from self-idolatry and ethereal abstraction, and Biden as his coked-up scurrying [...]
