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Standing on stare decisis

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Samuel Johnson famously said “patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels,” well it’s ironic that stare decisis–if it’s all your standing on, may qualify as the last refuge of judicial activists.
Retiring TN Supreme Court Chief Justice William M. Barker has stated in a Nashville City Paper interview that he thinks Tennessee’s most recent way of [...]

The Fat Lady Weeps

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Was opera ever truly the highest form of cultural expression? I mean, and no offense to my two opera loving friends, does a tale of a malformed dwarf’s unrequited love of the peasant girl which is thwarted by the black-hearted prince really represent high culture? I don’t know, I think the best of movie of the last ten years was Iron Man.

We'd be in a Mess

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The planet we live on is our last refuge.

Earth dies, we die.

Earth, I guess I should point out, has a problem...It's mostly us.

There is only one real environmental problem and that is the number of humans is too large to live and let live, and there is no getting around it. I have never heard a rational argument for more humans, but that is the direction we have been heading in for hundreds

Obama’s Smooth Moves

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Releasing bad news on a Friday is politics 101. It’s still a smart play, and Sen. Obama did just that by giving interviews on Rezko and releasing a statement on Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

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