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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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It’s graduation time, and the pundits are whining

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

It's graduation time, which means graduation speakers, which means controversy about graduation speakers, which means inevitable claims that protest against graduation speakers somehow implicates the right of free speech. The example that provoked this post is here (Open Season on Free Speech), but its brothers and sisters are legion. The fact is that despite the […]

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Never give the 99.9% an even break

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

I rarely pay attention to the emails I receive at work from organizations like the ABA and the National Law Journal, but this one caught my eye. For anyone not somewhat experienced in litigation this issue might seem esoteric, but for me this attempt to game the rules of discovery is emblematic of the ongoing […]

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Evidence 101

Monday, March 17, 2014

As most politically aware people know, Paul Ryan recently blamed inner city poverty on “culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working”. It has been pointed out, entirely fairly, that this is a clear signal to the racists in his party that […]

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A bit of sanity, in Utah of all places

Thursday, January 2, 2014

A state legislator in Utah is proposing a state constitutional amendment “that that would exempt religious institutions from performing same-sex marriages even if the state is required to issue marriage licenses to gay couples”. Now, your first reaction might be to roll your eyes, but the guy's rationale, to my mind, makes sense, and even […]

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