Truth or Consequences is a town and county seat of Sierra County in New Mexico, adopting its name from the popular radio show of the same name. The city changed its name from Hot Springs to Truth or Consequences as… Read More ›
SCOTUS
Miyares Myopia
A catchy news headline about money in Australian politics captured the essence of the behavior of politicians: “If You Can Get Away With Things, You Do It.” Pundits and political scribes are often inclined to remind readers in a sober… Read More ›
Ignoring Values
1 The Virginia Mercury (https://www.virginiamercury.com/2022/01/28/why-is-it-so-hard-to-build-tribal-housing/) posed a seemingly innocuous question: “Why is it so hard to build tribal housing in Virginia?” Considering this nation’s behavior toward indigenous Americans, the answer is naggingly elusive but the question prompts consideration about the… Read More ›
Most Important Product
Over eight years, 1954-1962, Ronald Reagan, as spokes master for the popular TV series General Electric Theatre, opened each episode with an introduction that “Progress is our most important product.” While economists and other corporate pundits might agree on measures… Read More ›
Silence of the Lambs
On January 21, 2022, one day before the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Virginia’s new attorney general, by way of the state’s solicitor general, advised SCOTUS that the landmark case was “wrongly decided” and that “Virginia is now of… Read More ›
ICYMI…………………January 3, 1521
Five hundred one years ago today, Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther, a German professor of theology and priest, from the Catholic Church, initiating a breach that altered not only the Church’s universality but the reach of its influence and… Read More ›
Inheritance
COVID 19 has encouraged a number of alternate ways to cope with home confinement and selection of entertainment. Classic movies are easily and inexpensively available. On the Tuesday evening before the SCOTUS broadcast of oral argument on the Mississippi case… Read More ›
Book Ban Bumpus
In 1964 (Jacobellis v. Ohio), Justice Potter Stewart concluded that defining pornography was not only difficult but likely impossible, offering (with perhaps a sigh), “But I know it when I see it.” At issue before the Court was an Ohio… Read More ›
The Road Ahead
It appears that the Virginia Redistricting Commission (VRC) will not meet its timeline to produce a set of electoral maps establishing new boundaries that are supposed to endure until the next census in 2030, in effect, a 10-year legacy. The… Read More ›