As a life-long Dodger fan, I took the news of Manny Ramirez’s suspension for failing a drug test hard.  After Ramirez came on board last year (the result of a bitter divorce with the Boston Red Sox that had Boston shipping the star slugger to L.A. complete with the balance of his salary for […]

            Much has been made of the completion of Barack Obama’s first one hundred days as the nation’s president.  The identification of this period in a new presidency flows from the early months of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term, when the country was experiencing what became the Great Depression and the new president pushed a […]

            Let’s acknowledge that the “enhanced interrogation techniques” that included the infamous waterboarding of suspected al Qaeda terrorists were a violation of international law.  No responsible international law expert argues otherwise.              Let’s also acknowledge that those techniques were also a violation of United States law, as most jurists and lawyers, apart from Bush administration […]

            So did you take part in one of those teabag protests last week?  They were held, in case you missed them, on April 15, and their purpose was to express outrage.  Just what the outrage was aimed at depended on whom you spoke to.               The basic idea seemed to be to object […]