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New London scores a court victory 

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

This will come as no surprise to many, but either I don’t read the New London Day closely enough, or the Day is falling down on the job. (Well, the Day is always falling down on the job) Anyway, today I read this: A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after […]

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A horrible, very bad idea

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Smoking would be prohibited in public housing homes nationwide under a proposed federal rule announced on Thursday, a move that would affect nearly one million households and open the latest front in the long-running campaign to curb unwanted exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. via The New York Times I am second to no one in […]

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Sausage making in Hartford

Thursday, July 9, 2015

There’s an old saying to the effect that you really don’t want to know how legislation or sausage is made. I’m not sure about the meat variety, but I’d actually love to know how this sausage was made. It is Section 57 of the budget bill just passed by our legislature. It reads as follows: […]

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Legal Acumen

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Who knows, maybe this is Steve Beshear’s way of taking a fall: Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear’s administration is arguing the state’s ban on same-sex marriage isn’t discriminatory because it applies to straight people, too. “Kentucky’s marriage laws treat homosexuals and heterosexuals the same and are facially neutral. Men and women, whether heterosexual or homosexual, are […]

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Fair and balanced reporting on Social Security Disabilty

Monday, March 9, 2015

Dean Baker makes an obvious point, therefore one that those claiming that the Social Security Disability program is abused totally ignore: Wall Street Journal Soon to Run Piece on Improper Denials of Disability Claims That’s inevitable, since any fair-minded newspaper that ran a column on improper approvals would surely want to balance it out. For […]

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Charter School Madness

Sunday, March 8, 2015

The right, be it the religious or corporate variant, is ever so good at making their positions sound like the opposite of what they are. They don’t oppose abortion and birth control; they are “pro-life”; they don’t pass anti-union laws; they pass “right to work” laws. The media, often enabled by people on the left […]

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Judge Posner Rules

Monday, February 2, 2015

A friend of mine sends out daily emails with links to interesting stories. A recent email sent me to this article, in which we find that Judge Richard Posner has ruled against the union of the Administrative Law Judges that decide Social Security Disability cases: The Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled […]

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Involuntary Servitude in the 21st Century

Saturday, October 4, 2014

You just know where this one is going: After his 12-hour shifts at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Jesse Busk says, he and 200 other workers typically waited in line for 25 minutes to undergo a security check to see whether they had stolen any goods. Upset that the temp agency that employed him […]

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The Supreme Court: Always entitled to its own opinion, not entitled to its own facts

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

I follow what the Supreme Court is doing, but I don't read their decisions, unless I must for some work related reason. My blood pressure is in a very good range, but why take chances. Even if I did read their decisions, I'm not sure I would have caught on to this. A little background. […]

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Good try

Monday, July 28, 2014

I do hope this ends up in the courts, though I know that the Satanists will lose: The Satanic Temple has launched a campaign seeking religious exemption from laws that restrict access to abortions, citing the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling. The group, which “facilitates the communication and mobilization of politically aware Satanists, secularists, and […]

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