Category Archives: Jurisprudence

Censusless: This book needs to be read not just before 2020 or even November 2016

Posted on June 16, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Is Howard Dean, Tim Kaine, or DWS responsible for the poor leadership on what remains the real negative consequences of what should have been a better outcome for PBO’s 2008 election in the midst of an economic … Continue reading →

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Memes of a feather: ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ and ‘radical Christian terrorism’

Posted on June 14, 2016 by ann li-summers

Immanuel Kant — ‘Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.’   By ann summers Home-grown extremism still intersects and is intersectional, so expressing “radical islamic terrorism” like “radical Christian terrorism” are as PBO indicated today about political talking points, there’s no … Continue reading →

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Public Safety in the post-Pulse era

Posted on June 13, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers    Orlando’s horrific domestic extremist attack demonstrates that with the constant, cyclical negation of private and public rights there cannot be win-win solutions in a modern democracy that has foundationally resisted the notion of a theocratic state. An … Continue reading →

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Under tRump, cockroaches will have unenumerated, unimpeachable rights and envy the dead

Posted on June 6, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers If we thought the End of the Republic happened when Monica Lewinsky got a TED talk, surprise -— Donald Trump could become POTUS, just as he states that Latino or Muslim judges could be unfair to him. Sonia Sotomayor will … Continue reading →

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John Barron-Miller: Harbinger of a V for Vendetta Business Plot

Posted on May 22, 2016 by ann li-summers

Thomas Cole (1801–1848) Destruction from The Course of Empire. 1836 painting  39 ½ x 63 ½ in (100.33 x 161.29 cm) New-York Historical Society   By ann summers November 8, 2016 could signal the end of the Republic when the American … Continue reading →

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Revisionist Histories and a return of Glass-Steagell

Posted on May 2, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Perhaps Donald Trump has proven that it takes a village idiot to triangulate ten garlic bulbs and take puma mountain by strategy. Or despite hip-hop musicals about Alexander Hamilton, will the eventual POTUS think about central banking as part of … Continue reading →

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Morning Open Thread – Depostion nightmare

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Chuck Stanley

Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day. I have participated in several hundred depositions over the past 40+ years. Sometimes as a witness, and sometimes as an observer/consultant. If one stays in … Continue reading →

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Lookout Wimmins iz in your can

Posted on April 23, 2016 by ann li-summers

    By ann summers Family Restrooms have been commonplace for many public institutions and darned if defending family values and traditional marriage has come under attack by well, non-traditional families, darn those sister-wives, extended families, single parents, and orphans.   There … Continue reading →

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Morning Open Thread – Verbatim: Follow the Chicken

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day, hobby and fun things, what you did on your vacation, and your local weather phenomena. From The New York Times: In this dramatization of transcripts … Continue reading →

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From Ronald to The Donald: “There are Two Donald Trumps” like there are (at least) Two Amerikas

Posted on March 13, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers We’ve moved from figures of speech to violent acts of speech on bodily figures; the history of the GOP and its Southern Strategy is now manifest in its ur-candidate, the WWE The People’s Bro-maniac tRump. As Ben Carson of … Continue reading →

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