If one thing is certain after every school shooting, it is the search for scapegoats. The death of two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia has more than its share. Except the one which truly deserves the title. Let’s look at the candidates. First, school resource officers are often … Read more
The attorney-client privilege does not cover statements made by a client to their lawyer if the statements are meant to further or conceal a crime. For this exception to apply, the client must have been in the process of committing a crime or planning to commit a crime. The exception may apply in some types … Read more
Nothing emboldens more than success. The National Enquirer gets it right about John Edwards and thinks it is a real newspaper. Psychic and astrologer Jeanne Dixon predicted in 1956 that the next president would be a Democrat and would die in office at the hands of an assassin. She later prophesized the world would end in … Read more
I talked about it the last few years. I think it’s silly. You can’t call it a season long race and have it come down to one tournament. Hypothetically we get to East Lake and my neck flares up and it doesn’t heal the way it did at the Players (where he had a neck … Read more
The federal bureaucracy has a mind of its own. Federal employees are often ideologically aligned—not with the majority of the American people –but with one another, posing a profound problem for republican government, a government “of, by, and for” the people. As Donald Devine, Dennis Kirk, and Paul Dans write in Chapter 3, “An autonomous … Read more