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The Supreme Court, who gave itself way too much power very early on in our country’s history, has consistently limited the fourth amendment, which is actually part of the Constitution, while at the same time finding all kinds of other stupid rights that are not actually spelled out in the Constitution without giving citizens the chance to vote […]
Written by randomfool on February 23rd, 2007 with no comments.
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The whole Anna Nicole Smith story is sad and embarassing on so many levels. First of all, that poor little baby has lost its mother and has lost the parent lottery given that none of the three choices are much more than opportunists anyway. I hope, for her sake, that someone is able to step […]
Written by randomfool on February 19th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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So rare is it that I get a few quiet moments to have a bite to eat and read the newspaper. In fact, most days I ignore the printed newspaper because my daily addition to Bloglines renders the information in the newspaper meaningless. I usually already know everything about any interesting subject long before the […]
Written by randomfool on February 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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The Duke Lacrosse scandal, and the recent 60 Minutes story on it, point out the abuse that is so easy to perpetrate by prosecutors who have way too much power in our legal system with insufficient checks and balances on that power and an incentive to abuse it.
Written by randomfool on January 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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After spending seven years in state and private higher education followed a few years later by two more years in an Executive MBA program, I could not agree more with a recent Wall Street Journal editorial by Charles Murray, What’s Wrong with Vocational School.
Written by randomfool on January 24th, 2007 with no comments.
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Lawyers, for the most part, do not add any real value to society, they only consume it but there is a reason that we have more lawyer per capita than any other “civilized”, first-world country: we love to be unreasonable and we love to protect our right to be unreasonable.
Written by randomfool on January 11th, 2007 with no comments.
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