Fred Galves, my faculty colleague at the McGeorge School of Law, asked that I post this column for him.  He invites replies in the form of comments to the blog, to which he promises to reply. 2nd Amendment Quiz: Ten Questions  There was a recent report that flight attendants in the US are upset about […]

Empathy: n. The ability to understand, be aware of, be sensitive to and vicariously experience the feelings, thoughts and experience of another without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience communicated in an objectively explicit manner. It’s an interesting word.  I was still a pre-teen when my mother first introduced me to it.  “Empathy,” she explained […]

Amidst all the nonsense that the U.S. political scene has been since Barack Obama was elected in 2008, it is easy to lose sight of the master plan that those opposing the president really espouse.  Viewed issue-by-issue, the forest may not be evident.  But each of the trees that comprise a particular debate (be it […]

They said it would never really happen.  They said the mere prospect of it would guarantee a legislative compromise that would solve the problem.  They said no sane body of legislators would ever allow it to take effect. They said all of those things about the sequestration of government funds that would occur only if […]