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Zoning boards and the pursuit of happiness
Property rights, free exercise of religion and the consent of the governed
Bans against smoking Winstons and Salems in Winston-Salem, N.C. restaurants; snail darters’ right to life as they kill jobs; and Kelo-like takings of habitable property deemed a “blight” on municipal tax revenue coffers found DeVine Law zealously advocating expansive private property rights.
Yet, somehow [...]
The Tempting of Judge Bolton et al
Congress cedes power to Obama as King and judges as oligarchs
The problem of judge-made law trumping We the People’s contract with our government is as old as the Supreme Court’s rulings on Dred Scott (1857), Plessey (1896), Roe (1973), and Kelo (2005) and as new as this year’s federal district court rulings on illegal immigration enforcement [...]
Death of white guilt and taxes as mere mandates
Cockstradamus on race, losing the white (guilt) vote, etc
With the N.L. East-leading Atlanta Braves still on track to defeat the New York Yankees in the World Series, it seems a good time for our visionary alter ego to bring his high (73) wire act to bear on correct crowings of the recent past and the [...]
99 weeks and Dems don’t care
Sung to the tune of Jimmy Crack Corn by New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning, liberal Democrat economist, Paul Krugman
The lyrics of the famous song refer to a slave’s faux sorry over the death of his master that may have been caused by the supposed sorrowful slave. I was reminded of the song when recently accused of [...]
Rangel-ing Holder’s ‘Just-Us’ Department
A familiar lament of many Blacks about the heavy hand of “justice” being arbitrarily applied, that survived long after Jim Crow, was that “just us”, i.e. Blacks, seemed to suffer the consequences of the application of the law.
Of course, Blacks have suffered disproportionately from unjust applications of the law in our history, but not just [...]
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Mandatory minimum crack-up welcome
Congress narrows gap in cocaine sentencing rules
This former criminal defense trial lawyer saw a lot of lives ruined by crack and cocaine, but we also saw many lives ruined by long mandatory minimum sentences for possessions of small to medium amounts of crack.
Most of those latter lives ruined were those of black men, but I [...]
Wisconsin makes free speech its white men’s bitch
Non-whites and non-males also culpable in turning First Amendment on its back
In 1972, the Federal Communications Commission forced Georgia radio and television stations to air a paid political ad by a candidate for the U.S. Senate which declared: ”[The] main reason why niggers want integration is because niggers want our white women.”
The candidate, J.B. Stoner, was a [...]
Chances increasing for GOP in N.E.
Republicans contest nearly all House Districts in New England
Green Papers reports that at least one Republican candidate is contesting 21 out of 22 congressional districts in the six northeastern states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
It appears that the tea partying that allowed Republican Scott Brown to seize the so-called “Kennedy [...]
Why Sessions can’t un-Hatch Graham
Trial lawyer Lindsey Graham eats quiche in Meet the Press green rooms
As a veteran trial lawyer, it was a thing of beauty to watch the former South Carolina prosecutor’s cross-examination of Sonia Sotomayor. The Seneca, S.C. trial lawyer embarrassed her and became so embarrassed himself at having exposed such ignorance and lack of fealty to [...]
Handel a better “Deal” on Georgia education
Karen Handel will face Nathan Deal in GOP gubernatorial run-off, after the tea partier and Sarah Palin-favorite garnered a third of the vote in yesterday’s Georgia primary.
Deal, a long-time Congressman backed by former Speaker of the House and fellow Georgian Newt Gingrich, captured 23% of the vote to earn a spot in the run-off to [...]
