My father spent nearly three years fighting in the Pacific, earning two Bronze Stars and a Silver Star, and two battlefield commissions. He declined a Purple Heart for fear of alarming my mother. Dad, like all combat veterans I have met from old World War I heroes—all moved on, now—to . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re pretty close to the end of the graduation season, but the litigation about graduation season never seems to end. Here’s an interesting call for some sort of truce in the prayer wars. The author, a self-professed non-believer, offers a distinction between a communal . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the reasons I turned against single payer is that I believe—as an advocate who learned the trade at the knees of Ralph Nader—in the tort system. It provides a free market remedy in a free market system.Tort law is especially important in the health care marketplace, where . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s what I think. This is in response to David’s sigh in the thread below about the Bob Dole year to come. . . . . Continue Reading »
There are two aspects of care in a hospital; medical treatment and what is sometimes called humane care. The latter includes orally supplied food, water (for those who can partake), warmth, cleanliness, etc. It isn’t “medical,” it is basic, and cannot be withdrawn.But . . . . Continue Reading »
Larry Flint peddles obscenity and misogyny. He is not mainstream, to be sure, but he is also a big booster of left wing causes—and I haven’t seen too many on behalf of whom he has labored reject his support or condemn his work, although it is possible I just missed it.He gets some . . . . Continue Reading »
Lawyers aren’t money-grubbing snakes and our class action lawsuit against Pearls Before Swine and every newspaper that carries it will prove . . . . Continue Reading »
The FBI has raided the elderly woman in California who manufactures suicide bags and sells them for $60. From the KFOR story:Federal agents have raided the home of a 91-year-old woman who was selling do-it-yourself asphyxiation kits for $60 apiece in a mail-order business out of her San Diego-area . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a poetic PORCHER appreciation of MY “modest and prudential” approach to entitlement reform by James Matthew Wilson. I’m reminded, of course, that summer’s almost here, ratings are off, and AMERICAN IDOL is over. It might be time to start pro wrestling with our . . . . Continue Reading »
I thought this was the Onion, but alas, no. Italy’s head seismologist and five other politicians (and a government official) are actually being criminally charged because they failed to predict a deadly earthquake. From the Fox News story: Italian government officials have accused . . . . Continue Reading »
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