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A group of protestors wants to fly the Gadsden flag over the state capitol in Hartford, Connecticut, during a protest event. At first, lawmen told then flying the flag was all right. Later, law enforcement got cold feet. The flag cannot be flown atop the capitol.
"Don't Treat On Me" has not...

Bookstores are among my favorite places. And it just might be that Powell's in Portland, Oregon, is my favorite store of them all. I was there last weekend. Wandering the aisles made me imagine the joy of never having to leave the shop. I wondered whether they were hiring.
But too soon the...

I am generally stiff-necked, proud and given to stuffing wax into my years. But I've heard enough folks comment about the black background on the prior incarnation of this page to finally get it. So I redesigned this page. I also added a feature that permits readers to suggest topics on which I...

When Michael Moore visited Wall Street to try to figure out where our bail out money went, he got stonewalled. So he went back with the intent to make a citizen's arrest of the thieves on Wall Street. Although the Catholic Church didn't send Swiss Guards to help perfect the attempted arrests,...

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced this morning that he is retiring at the end of the current term. The retirement gives President Barack Obama an ideal opportunity to honor the commitment to change that was the hallmark of his presidential campaign. He can and should nominate a...

The last two times I passed through Washington, D.C.'s Union Station, my eyes were drawn to a flag dealer's display. "Don't Treat On Me," many of the flags say. In my mind's eye, I see the flag flying proudly in front of my home, or draped, dorm-like, from a wall somewhere in my office. I love the...

The following editorial appeared in a recent edition of The Hartford Courant, the nation's oldest continuously published newspaper. It is a sign that good sense is infectious.
Hat Tip: JK
When the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, a federal law aimed at sex offenders, was being...

I like Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz, so it pains me to say this: It is time for her to fold her tent and go silently into the night. In the past few months she has shown a remarkable ability to pick the wrong fight, at the wrong time, and to wage it in the wrong manner.
This is a jubilee...

Imagine being placed in prison for the rest of your life for a crime you did not commit. Suppose the state were forced to admit its error. What would justice require in such a case?
Connecticut once again faces the drama of men released after long, long incarceration for crimes they did not...

Steven Hayes has apparently decided that he doesn't want to plead guilty after all. So jury selection has resumed in his capital case. But smoldering just beneath the surface of the cold record in this case is an issue that the court has not yet been forced to address: Who decides whether he lives...