Category Archives: Law

We Judge Others By Ourselves

Posted on June 17, 2010 by john

Dear Friends, It seems to me that people judge others by themselves. The best template we have to place others in is the one we ourselves have forged… And it is the one we know best. That is why a … Continue reading →

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Thousands of Years of History… Have we Learned Anything?

Posted on June 10, 2010 by john

Dear Friends, It seems to me that when a nation pretends a crime was not committed by a leader because it would have to act… puts that nation in great peril. If a powerful political leader was to commit a … Continue reading →

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Individual Sovereignty

Posted on May 30, 2010 by john

Dear Friends, It seems to me that the magnitude of the concept of individual sovereignty is very underappreciated. This is a relatively new philosophy. It was codified into law under the US Constitution only two hundred years ago. One of … Continue reading →

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Relative Benefit, Relative Harm

Posted on May 26, 2010 by john

Dear Friends, It seems to me that government should explicitly take into account the relative benefit of a given action. Passing a law for example. Take a man who is starving. He comes across putrid meat. Is the relative benefit … Continue reading →

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Catastrophic Desisions

Posted on May 20, 2010 by john

Dear Friends, It seems to me that government’s propensity to normalize deviancy threatens us all. Due to Government’s ability to deliver catastrophe on a society. Normative deviancy is a sociological term that describes why some groups make catastrophically wrong decisions. … Continue reading →

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Poison Ivy in our Gardens

Posted on March 15, 2010 by john

Dear Friends, It seems to me that all legislation that makes the citizen get services from government are like poison ivy in our economic and legal gardens. It takes up space but produces nothing of value. It is intractable and … Continue reading →

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International Banking Regulation

Posted on January 27, 2010 by john

Dear Friends, It seems to me that to call for world regulation of banks, as Obama and Gordon Brown have, opens Pandora’s Box. Once the UN or other such governing agency gets it’s claws into the banking industry… the bribes, … Continue reading →

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Recent Supreme Court Ruling About Corporate Political Spending

Posted on January 24, 2010 by john

Dear Friends, It seems to me that the way the unbiased media are playing the recent Supreme Court ruling, that the government cannot regulate anyone’s free speech, is despicable. The first amendment reads as follows; “Congress shall make no law … Continue reading →

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Machinery and Law

Posted on December 24, 2009 by john

Dear Friends, It seems to me that a well designed machine has as few parts as possible, is put together as simply as possible and performs it’s function very well. Law is no different. It should be simple, well written … Continue reading →

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Demand for Labor

Posted on December 20, 2009 by john

Dear Friends, It seems to me that the best thing government can do for the working man is to make the demand for labor greater than the ability of the market to deliver. To do so resets the value of … Continue reading →

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