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Crime & Federalism
Judge Holden's speech on war brings Nietzsche into the Wild West. Blood Meridian has been a phenomenal read.
This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the ...
Some call this an "urban legend." Others will note that the truth can only be found in fiction.
Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. revealed the Bankers Manifesto of 1892 to the U.S. Congress somewhere between 1907 and 1917.
BANKERS MANIFESTO
We (the bankers) must proceed with caution and guard every move made, for ...
Civil defense lawyers occasionally find this humble blog after Googling, "lawyers who have beat Rex Paris." Instead of learning about those alleged lawyers, they are likely to find reports of huge personal injury verdicts and awards.
Last week the Rex Parris Law Firm, with Alexander Wheeler as co-counsel, settled a personal ...
When Joseph Rakofsky filed a frivolous lawsuit against me and 84 or so other people for writing that Rakofsky is incompetent and unethical, settlement never occurred to me. There are First Amendment issues at stake. If lawyers won't stand behind their words, how can people untrained in the law ever ...
If you went by Lori Palmieri's website advertising her wares as a criminal defense lawyer, you'd think Michael Lewis was describing her when he wrote about Big Swinging Dicks.
Palmieri's website depicts a ghostly, almost intimidating figure with chilly blue eyes. Fans of Blood Meridian can only imagine her as a Judge ...
Holding in anger is the virtue of slaves. The Christian bias against anger exists because early Christians were slaves rather than masters. If early Christians had not been forced to hold their tongues (being gentle as doves and sneaky as snakes), Western men would have a healthier relationship with anger.
Aristotle ...
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I'm trying to do some "white hat SEO." That is, I want to steer desperate patients and parents away from scam websites and steer them towards helpful information.
My skin is a diaster. I've always had mild ...
At Brown University, witnesses can accept payment before giving testimony in student disciplinary hearings. The favors and case received needn't even be disclosed. Consider Shane Reil, who sold out a fellow student to make connections with a Wall Street money man:
William McCormick is suing the University and two ...
When most people think of the First Amendment, they think of the evils of government censorship. Yet the current greatest threat to free speech does not come from the Internet. It comes from litigious private parties. It's a dangerous threat because it's stealthy.
If the DOJ threatened to shut down Crime ...