I’m an old defense trial lawyer. I never lost a case I took to the jury, but I also never won a motion that I put to a judge. You see, juries are triers of fact, while judges are the…
Author: vassar
The Parable of the Grannies
As I’ve mentioned in other contexts, I spent a lot of time in the USSR before it fell, and then both Russia and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Empire, after it fell, from 1991- through- 2008. Each of those…
America’s First Principles, and the War Made on Them; Understanding Why we Fight
A First Principle is a basic proposition or assumption that is no a growth from any other proposition or assumption. If Principles were a building, First Principles would be their stone foundation. Virtually every opinion you have is based on…