Tag Archives: Lawyers

Graphing Government Economic Friction

Dear Friends, It seems to me it is a self evident fact that government could regulate poverty. In other words, government could enact regulations that are so absurd, all economic activity would come to a halt. In fact we see … Continue reading

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At the Gestapo… We Deal in RESULTS!

Dear Friends, It seems to me, that the modern incarnation of welfare state capitalism, punishes virtue and rewards vice, (in all things and in all ways). Then those very people, who have created such a system of incentives and disincentives, … Continue reading

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NUMA

Dear Friends, It seems to me that history, and the present, show us that the Elite in all societies need to be policed. Perhaps the societal upheavals we are witnessing lately could have been avoided, or maybe even stopped, by … Continue reading

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Legislation and Legislators

Dear Friends, It seems to me that writing legislation is like building a house. Most legislation is never pointed at any particular thing. Take the drug policies of most nations. They are targeted at some nebulous idea of eradicating drug … Continue reading

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The Quality of Debate Effects the Quality of Policy

Dear Friends, It seems to me that when a person’s argument is weak they tend to change the subject a lot. Doing so keeps their opponent off balance. More importantly, the weak points in their arguments are never examined. A … Continue reading

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Get the Economy Growing Again

Dear Friends, It seems to me that if the US government really wanted to get the economy moving again there is a well charted course. The problem is, the government does not like that course. It believes that if only … Continue reading

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Elana Kagan’s Nomination To The Supreme Court

Dear Friends, It seems to me that the inevitable outcome of the judicial philosophy of Aharon Barak is an oligarchy of judges. There is no other possible outcome of such a philosophy. Elena Kagan, Obama’s newest supreme court nominee, says … Continue reading

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Poison Ivy in our Gardens

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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Lawyers and Society

Dear Friends, It seems to me that Lawyers are little more than parasites on the corpus Humana. The job of an attorney is to facilitate transactions between people to allow capitalistic enterprise to work. Attorneys have discovered however that if … Continue reading

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Why We Need Lawyers

Dear Friends, It seems to me that the reason we need lawyers in our society is that people don’t want to be held at their word. It is Hsun Ching’s maxim that the congenital nature of man is evil. By … Continue reading

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