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The confirmation hearings for Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s appointment to the United States Supreme Court will begin in June. No one seri...

Curious about President Obama’s latest choice for the Supreme Court, I looked up Elena Kagan’s 1996 article in the University of Chicago Law...

One of my pet peeves is the way radio and television commercials repeat telephone numbers. Typically stated in a loud, annoying sing-song, t...

In July of 1774 fifty-six men, representing thirteen British colonies, wrote their names at the foot of a three page document declaring Amer...

My last posting took issue with the so-called “Congressional Reform Act of 2010.” Dumb idea. OK. So it’s a dumb idea. Got a better one? You ...

A friend sent me an email the other day, forwarding another signed by “A Fellow American.” The subject was a thing called the “Congressional...

When Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona signed Senate Bill 1070 into law last month, the salsa really hit the fan. From ballplayers to bishops, ...