On this day in 1858, a relatively unknown Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech that will affect the political quickening of our “rebirth of freedom” in…
Today is June 14th. Some of you know it is Flag Day. And that’s cool. But there is something else important about this day. On…
“OKAY BOYS. WE’LL GO!” These are the words General Dwight Eisenhower uttered today as 150,000 men waited in troop transports on the impeding invasion of…
HOW DO GOVERNORS HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL POWER TO LIMIT FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS LIKE OUR FREEDOM TO EXERCISE RELIGION? Indulge me for a moment. Allow me to set…
I write this as a kind of confession that I have allowed my legal training to distract me from the deeper and more sinister aspects…
For years I’ve been of the mind that the divisions we identify as political are not really “political” at all, but have a deeper tectonic…
I was not deeply perusing, but I was revisiting his thought. William Blackstone is regarded as one of the key intellectual influences on the America…
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS CANNOT BE SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY Remember the arguments during the Guantanamo Cases a decade ago? And the Civil War Mulligan case? Fundamental Rights CAN…
Today is George Washington’s birthday— February 22 But you’d never know it. There are no speeches about him that I’m aware of today. At least…