The Fourth Amendment and the Digital Age

When the Framers of the Constitution submitted the Bill of Rights for ratification, they would have never imagined iPods, iPhones, and every other imaginable gadget infiltration the ubiquitous, socially autistic "I".The context of the Fourth Amendment read...

Response to "GOP twisting Jesus' teachings"

I do not recall reading anywhere in the Four Gospels of the New Testament where Jesus espoused any other political philosophy beyond:"Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's." (Luke 20:25)Mrs....

Response to Herman Cain’s "Ice Cream Meltdown"

Herman Cain is a persuasive businessman, not only for the range of experience he has collected for himself, but the string of successes he has helped to achieve, in one case turning a near-defunct subsidiary deep in the red to back in the black.And black he is, from...

From Plastic Bag Bans to Sinkholes

Sometimes, the parochial nature of the local press can be very distressing or stifling, yet they both expose the inefficiency and idiocy of local governmentThe near collapse of Paseo del Mar in San Pedro, is certainly distressing. A lovely seaside community connected...

Alterations in the Line of Succession

In the British Act of Settlement (1701), Parliament ruled that a Catholic by birth or conversion would be barred from sitting on the throne of the United Kingdom.In order to counter papist intrigue, the British introduced this limitation.After more than three hundred...