“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, would indicate that a violation of…
Category: 2016 Election
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 cause one to pause and…
The Hero in Nature, a 21st Century Pespective
In 1840 Thomas Carlyle gave a series of lectures in London about “Heroes and Hero-Worship”. I’m trying to condense some of them into modern easy-to-read English, for they touch on several subjects important to America today, but as seen from a period in…