Sanctuary Buildings

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

Three Down…

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

It’s Playoff Time

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 Deep Judiciary

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

The Good, the Bad, and the Holy

On June 29, 2024, the last weekend of Gay Pride Month, the First Baptist Church of Fernandina Beach, Florida and Citizens Defending Freedom sponsored a parade and festival to “celebrate the Christian Heritage of America.”  In order to participate in the parade, float sponsors were required to sign a “Statement of Convictions.”  Tara Dunlop, a … Read more