The Northern Review

A few days ago, a friend of mine was in Washington DC to attend a dinner in honor of a certain DC Circuit Court jurist.  He told me of a story one of the jurist’s clerks told the audience. The clerk had been asked by his judge to look into whether the judge may have made a [...]

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Richard Posner, Judge, 7th Circuit, United States of America, at the conclusion of one of his contributions as a pundit says:
So a confluence of market failures has created an economic crisis, and the challenge is to develop regulatory responses that reduce the cost (net of the direct and indirect costs of the regulations themselves) of [...]

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What sort of government is the United States government becoming?  Are we moving to a United States government which is democratic, socialist, totalitarian, communist, fascist? There is a good deal of major change taking place.

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Thanks to Folo here is part of an interview with Sarah Palin on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Brody: Let me ask you a little bit about media scrutiny because some of the media networks…wonder why you don’t go on some of the 24/7 cable networks. What is your response to that?
Palin: Well sometimes it just doesn’t [...]

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It is human nature to imagine the people who are elected to public office have qualities and integrity the common unelected or unappointed person has.  We look up to leaders as children look up to older people.  As we become more and more childlike, our illusions about our leaders become more and more childlike, more and more [...]

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When a friend is in distress, distress about a life changing event, many of us are inclined to refer him to a book which might deal with the event he is facing.  We might be inclined to lead him to books about faith.  We might encourage him to take a trip, to see a different [...]

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It is truly surprising to see how easily our government has enlarged itself these past few days. We tend to think we want a limited government. But we do not. In fact, those in power, whether Republicans or Democrats, look to government as the answer to every ill. Our government, the State, has no more [...]

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The right to jury trial in a sexual predator continued commitment case is protected by the Washington State Constitution. The right to jury trial under the Washington Sexual Predator Act violates the right of an accused under the Act to a proper jury trial.

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Kevin Coe is on trial again. He served his time for rape — 25 years, no parole. Now the state seeks to put him, keep him in jail for the rest of his life. Why? Because the state thinks a jury will decide a medical fact. What sort of medical fact? A “fact” that Mr. [...]

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The representatives of the people of the United States of America have changed America in on fell swoop.  America will never be the same again.  None of us will ever be the same again.  We have confirmed this:  We are no longer a nation of courage, we are a nation of followers.  We are a [...]

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