It’s Such a Good Feeling
Not too long ago I transcribed for this blog a piece George Orwell wrote for Tribune, a British newspaper to which he was a regular contributor. Orwell had his own column in the paper which he called...
View ArticlePadilla Retroactivity Making Another Trip to the Supreme Court?
Earlier this month the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the case of United States v. Chan. That case involves a longtime U.S. green card holder and British national who is trying to get her...
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Home Again
There are many reasons why people want to emigrate to the United States. One oft cited reason is abundance of economic opportunity. Where one is perhaps stymied in his attempts to set up shop on a...
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A Breather, And Then Some
In 1986 the New York Mets won it all: their division, the league championship, the World Series, and the entire City of New York. This had as much to do with the success of the team that year as it...
View ArticleAt Least We’re Not Earth
Here’s a premise for a movie: The Chinese become the first ones to discover the existence of alien life forms in outer space. Without telling anyone they develop the capability to track down and...
View ArticleSay It Plain
I came across a video clip the other day. It was shot inside a Florida Starbucks and showed a woman telling off the Governor there who had come inside the Starbucks with a retinue of aides and guards...
View ArticleMy Commencement Speech
It’s that time of the year again when universities call on dignitaries and luminaries to give commencement speeches to their students. Most of these speeches will be rambling, pointless and...
View ArticleFreedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
If freedom means anything it means the right to commit violence in another person’s name. This is a lesson that’s been passed on from one generation to the next since the time this country was first...
View ArticleSigning Off
I’m sad to say that this is my last post for the blog. I started this blog together with my solo law practice. But I am moving abroad soon and will be closing down my law practice as well. So I...
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