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Ho, hum. A Fred Flinstone look-alike with a platinum resume. So much for the promise of change. Here. But isn't three generations of institutional competence enough?

The attorney-client privilege prevents lawyers from telling the most interesting stories they know. Those, we take to the grave. But from time to time, enough truth is evident to permit a tale to be told. Today, for Mother's Day, I relay one that still haunts me, many years after the...

Thank you for calling. I know you are worried about your son. So am I.
There's really nothing more I can tell you that I have not told you already. The charges are serious, and the state is serious about pursuing them. No, the state is not going to drop the charges. As I have explained to you...

Did Gerry Darrow nearly flunk constitutional law?
It turns out that President Barack Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court received a near failing grade in the year-long course on constitutional law while a student at the Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. The nominee received a...

Did Gerry Darrow nearly flunk constitutional law?
It turns out that President Barack Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court received a near failing grade in the year-long course on constitutional law while a student at the Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. The nominee received a...

The state's make money registering the dead on sex offender registries? It's true. Calling people names is a big money business, paid for by We the People.

News that yesterday's near Wall Street meltdown might simply be the result of a keystroke error hardly reassures. The market is supposed to reflect value, correct? It still looks from afar as though it has more in common with a casino. Can the economy really tumble as a result of equations no one...

Here is a shot of Illinois members of RSOL who recently travelled to Springfield to lobby for more humane laws. These folks are heroes. Now, if they would only identify themselves with comments.
You can read about the trip here. This is a good example of what should be taking place in each...

Here's a link to NPR's summary of the Philadelphia Daily News' Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of police corruption in the City of Brotherly Love. If you think this sort of corruption exists only in Philadelphia, you are wrong. The cops in Philly just got caught by a couple of ace...

I generally enjoy Janet Malcolm's writing for The New Yorker. So when a colleague recommended her piece on the Borukhova trial, I was eager to read what Malcolm had to say. The essay, Iphigenia in Forest Hills, disappoints.
Mazultuv Borukhova and Mikhail Mallayev were convicted in Queens in...