The Northern Review

Drug Laws I looked at some of Washington’s controlled substances laws this morning. Link.  The laws make certain substances, certain material things, illegal. If you have them and do not have a right to have them you can be sent to jail, to lots of jail. Our jails are filled to the brim with such people [...]

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The unrest in Iceland, a country of homogeniety and culture, is a sign of things to come.

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The state judicial elections for this season are well over.  I found this picture in one of my files.  This very beautiful woman ran for a local judgeship a season or two ago.  She was elected, wouldn’t you know.  Her credentials were not, as I recall, discussed.  What is at work here?  Every man’s obsession, [...]

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I came across an interesting book the other day.  It is called Table Talk and was purportedly written by Martin Luther of Wittenberg, Germany (1483 - 1546).  It can be found at this link.  Ii is a page long.  One gains the essence of what Luther is saying about lawyers from this quote:
Ye that are [...]

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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert Camus

Camus would be 94 if he had not died.  He died when he was 47, in 1960.  It is worthwhile to think how a person of great intellectual and emotional stature might think if he had [...]

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