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Chairman Burr I. Fourth of July Questions Independence from wars, the mother of all feudalism ( American Feudalism , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ,...

Downtown Tomorrow The federal courts have a line of cases that make global warming induced climate change one of the, if not the, major ...

Once upon a time Occasionally we take a look at the past on Dredd Blog to see how much things are the same or how much things have chan...

Some of those who focus a very accurate eye upon the economic dynamics of American culture use the word " oligarchy " to descri...

A heart grown cold . In this series we have been reviewing the seemingly extinct concept of the common good, a.k.a. the public good ( Th...

Extinction is about bad timing Timing is everything in some circumstances (" I'm such a profound believer that timing is everyth...

In the first post of this series we considered Arizona v Gant , 556 U.S. 332 (2009). That Supreme Court case affirmed an Arizona state ...

Epigovernment Gun-boats This Memorial Day is a day of memory. The true memorial can only be as accurate as the true memory of the even...

This Gives New Meaning To "Bank Robbery" The American people inhabit a nation that has been held hostage by an inability to ap...

In the first post of this series we talked about a mock trial of the type law schools hold each year for their students' edification. ...

The five "conservative" justices on the U.S. Supreme Court are the "supreme five", and those who watch the court know th...

In the first post of this series, Corp Germ > Corp Seed > Corp Monster , Dredd Blog exposed the false notion of history which the neoC...

We discussed political persecution in the post Politicization Of Internal Revenue , and specifically mentioned the Don Siegelman case. In th...

The noticeable drift to the right in politics has a not-as-noticeable twin, a drift to the right in the federal judiciary , "the courts...

Dear [Dredd], Today we begin the process of undoing the great harm done by a narrow majority on the U.S. Supreme Court in its recent Citizen...

A guy was writing a screen play. His brother was a lawyer. The screenplay was about Maine seceding from the United States. His brother, in a...

What do former President Jimmy Carter, Civil Rights icon John Lewis, Nobel Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Pope Benedict XVI, as...