When a legal dispute comes to trial, the argument is almost always between two lawyers, in front of a judge who is also a lawyer. The job of the lawyers for the plaintiff and the defense are tasked with seeing that their clients get the best deal possible within the limits imposed by the law. …
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There are two essential functions of government. One is defense, defense against threats from other societies. The other is Law and Order, the imposition of rules to protect our rights against threats from within our society. Over the millennia, governments have taken on other tasks, but these two are essential. Other functions may be nice…
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In times past, corporal punishment was common in western culture. Today it is anathema. When Jesus was whipped on his way to the Cross, corporal punishment was anything but a new invention. What are the pluses and minuses of corporal punishment? To inflict corporal punishment on a human being does seem cruel and barbaric. Worse…
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Large organizations seem to be very good at finding stupid tasks for themselves, or finding a worthwhile task and doing it in a stupid way. Examples abound. When I was in the military, I heard a few stories…. Colonel Custer led a couple of hundred troops to attack thousands of Sioux under Crazy Horse, who…
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In May 2020, George Floyd, a black man, was apparently murdered, while handcuffed, by police in Minneapolis. Bystanders caught the killing on videotape, which was then shown, repeatedly, on national television. Never before had an actual murder been shown to so many people. The immediate effect of the media’s decision to shove Mr. Floyd’s murder…
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Exobiology is the study of life outside our planet. Exobiology has been called “a discipline in search of a subject matter”. Is there life beyond our planet? A great many people believe there is, and indeed that there are millions of intelligent species out there in the vastness of the universe. Is the universe full…
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The Nazis’ death camp in Poland named Auschwitz was where the Germans’ National Socialist regime murdered millions of people. Today the camp is preserved as a museum to emphasize a resolution that such crimes must never be repeated. “Lest We Forget”. Today we are seeing a movement to erase the history of the abomination of…
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2020 August 30 President Donald Trump 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC Subject: DNC Leak Dear Mr. President, An acquaintance who works with the Democrat syndicate, tells me that he is disgusted with the things they are doing, and thus he has asked me to leak to you a plan that is still secret. I may…
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Rayshard Brooks, a black man, was killed by Atlanta Police in June 2020. Police were investigating the possibility that Brooks was drunk behind the wheel. The encounter was marked by politeness on the part of Brooks and the police. A breath test showed that Brooks had too much alcohol in his system, so the law…
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In May 2020, George Floyd, a black man, was apparently murdered while handcuffed by police in Minneapolis. Bystanders caught the killing on videotape, which was then shown, repeatedly, on national television. Never before had an actual murder been shown to so many people. The immediate effect of the media’s decision to shove Mr. Floyd’s murder…
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