ABSENCE OF MALICE?                 12/14/2019 The public has a right to criticize the people who govern them, so the least protection from defamation is given to public officials. When officials are accused of something that involves their behavior in office, they have to prove all of the above elements of defamation and they must also prove that the […]

A POLITICAL HAIL MARY!                     12/5/2019 “Most of the facts, upon which we proceed, are confessed; some of them are boasted of. The labour will be on the criminality of the facts, where proof, as I apprehend, will not be contested. Guilt resides in the intention. But as we are before a tribunal, which having conceived […]

20 AÑOS DE UNA TRAICION 11/24/2019 Como unos 6 meses después de mi retiro, me llamo un ex-residente de mi servicio para pedirme ayuda en un team de siquiatras que se encargarían de ayudar al niño Elián y sus familiares con sus problemas emocionales.  Una de las mayores preocupaciones estaba en la inestabilidad de un […]

THE IMPEACHMENT SHAM                  11/2/2019 Madison, the scholarly Princeton graduate, a generation younger than Mason at age 36, saw a threat to the balance of powers he’d helped devise. “So vague a term will be equivalent to a tenure during pleasure of the Senate,” he argued. In other words, Madison feared the Senate would use the […]

MEN ARE FROM MARS AND HAVE A PENIS; WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS AND HAVE A VAGINA 10/24/2019 Pro-family Christians and radical feminists may not agree about much, but they agree that redefining “sex” to mean “gender identity” is a truly fundamental shift in American law and society. It also strips women of their privacy, threatens […]

THE LOVE OF BASEBALL; GO NATS!                                  10/20/2019 The stage is set, the 2019 Baseball World Series will be between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals.    It is time to remember a great man named Charles Krauthammer.    From medical student to suffering a freak accident that left him paralyzed in body, but not in spirit, […]

EL MONO SE VISTE DE SEDA 18 de octubre del 2019 “No habrá desarrollo económico hasta que no liberen las fuerzas productivas. Lo que necesitan hacer no es convertir al Estado en la mula mayor y quitarle el negocio a los cuentapropistas, sino dar libertad de importación a la gente, que creen sus propias empresas, […]

A KANGAROO IMPEACHMENT 10/14/2019 A kangaroo court is a court that ignores recognized standards of law or justice, and often carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides. The term may also apply to a court held by a legitimate judicial authority who intentionally disregards the court’s legal or ethical […]