The Northern Review

I heard it said a politician was excited because he was listening to the masses of voters. Then I heard him say in a campaign commercial that his opponent made a natural disaster worse as a result of opponent’s policies. The accusation was untrue and it was absurd. Then I heard him say in a [...]

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I mailed a letter and an article I am working on to the chairpersons of the State of Washington House and Senate Judiciary Committees.  The article was about the application of the Washington Constitution fair and equal elections requirements to the elections of judges to the Court of Appeals and selection of judges to the [...]

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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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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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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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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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We hear Representatives who voted against the Money Lender Bailout are now going to change their vote and vote in favor of the Bailout because it has a host of “tax earmarks” or rather an “earmark” they like.  If this is true, what it says is that some of our Representatives are “for sale.”  Fin [...]

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