“The Fountainhead” courtroom Speech, Ayn Rand
Again, I'm not Ayn Rand's biggest fan, but this speech by architect Howard Roark, on trial for having blown up a housing project he designed in New York when another architect changed his design,...
Shameless Cravens and a Plea for History
This is only an opinion.
There is not enough hard evidence available for me to say without equivocation that Lindsey Graham is a craven, much less a shameless one.
But there is enough circumstantial evidence to...
American Theology Simply Stated, The Transcendence of Liberty
The Transcendence of Liberty
I’ve told this story before, of the time in 1991 I attended a birthday party for a law professor at a university in USSR Ukraine. Around three tables pushed together, in...
Failure to State a Claim Upon Which Relief Can be Granted
"Failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted is a defense to a legal claim."
It means that the claimant has failed to present sufficient facts which, if taken as true,...
Can a Sane Society Elect a Demented Man for President?
Thankfully, we only have to think about this sort of thing for three more days, for however the courts decide how it will end, our parts in it will be done; our minds made...
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...