While we’re grappling with exporting our constitutional principles to those less fortunate in the world, it is important to note that some of them are under siege here at home. In an important book, The Case Against Lawyers, former Texas judge and current host of Court TV Catherine Crier makes a bold statement about the […]
Archives for April 2003
Roe Vs. Wade Redux
I have often noted my view that the ill-decided Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade in 1973 will have been our generation’s version of the 1857 decision in the Dred Scot slavery case in terms of its divisiveness for our social fabric. Now pending is another invitation to further ideological warfare—the case of Lawrence […]
Random Thoughts On The War
“However long it takes. It isn’t a matter of timetable, it’s a matter of victory.”—George W. Bush It is very difficult to focus on much of anything lately except the war in Iraq, so here are some thoughts on it I have been kicking around: * There once was a responsible anti-war left in this […]