My sister sent me an email telling me: “A tour guide in Ireland said Northern Ireland 45% catholic and increasing- Kinsale was 50%. Catholic and all of Southern Ireland 95% Catholic- so you have a shot at still getting gold coins in your shoes on future st pat’s days.” I replied to her that the…
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The Big Snooze: Hernandez Trial Update:
As a young defense lawyer I had a case where my young client was arrested and indicted for possession of gaming apparatus. He was 18 years old and worked at a bowling alley. The bookie at the alley got tipped off that a raid was about to happen so he asked my client to watch…
Ass End Backwards: The Wall Street Journal Lead Editorial
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) had a lead editorial today called “Obama’s Mideast Vacuum.” The vacuum is Obama’s reluctance to keep American ground troops fighting the Arabs in the Middle East. It states: “has a policy ever been so thoroughly repudiated in so short a time?” It’s like what is happening over there is Obama’s…
Obama’s Folly? Wanting A Better Approach
Every day without cessation the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) hammers away at Obama. His big, big crime or failure is that he thinks enough American blood has been shed in trying to bring peace to the Middle East. A WSJ op-ed chastises him for “refusing to commit any ground forces” to Iraq (haven’t we already…
John O’Brien and Vicious Prosecutors
Sadly the horrors committed by the Department of Justice’s prosecutors in Boston continue. Grand jury leaks to the Boston Globe continue unabated. Despite such actions being criminal no investigation occurs. When the law enforcers become the law breakers cloaked in the cape of impunity our liberties are at risk. The leaks as we know are…
Merry Commonmas!
For most of Modern History we’ve explicitly labeled our dates to the birth of Christ. We had two letters to designate years: if we talked about Homer we would say he was born around “8th – 9th century B.C.” or about the Abyssinian Heresy we might read the date as “about A.D. 316.” B.C. stood…