The directives from the Ohio Department of Public Health concerning how we are to deal with the coronavirus have brought many revelations. Until the virus hit, I didn’t realize how many constitutional law scholars we have, nor was I aware how creative people can be when objecting to the guidelines. Take, for instance, the owner […]
Coronavirus gives rise to scholars and creativity Read Post »
How does the Ohio Supreme Court decide which cases to take and who writes the opinion? Does a justice’s political background have any effect on decision-making? What does Justice Donnelly have to say about judicial elections and the Death Penalty? Listen to the discussion on Lawyer Up!
Just justice–an interview with Ohio Supreme Court Justice Michael Donnelly Read Post »
One of President Trump’s defenses to his impeachment is that he withheld aid from Ukraine because of his concern for corruption in the country. But there’s a significant fact he doesn’t mention. According to Trump, then-Vice President Joe Biden told Ukraine’s president at the time, Petro Poroshenko, the U.S. would withhold $1 billion in loan
Trump’s defense skips over an important fact Read Post »
Until recently, the nation was making headway in providing health insurance for more people. The Trump administration, however, is doing its best to reverse that trend, and it’s costing us lives. At the end of 2017, 28.9 million Americans under the age of 65 were without health insurance, a big improvement over 2010, when 48.6
Decrease in health insurance enrollment costs lives Read Post »
The end of 2018 brought two news items that don’t make sense to me—a soccer stadium and a politician’s farewell speech. First, the soccer stadium. Columbus and Franklin County will help fund the proposed Arena District soccer stadium. The city will contribute $50 million for site development and infrastructure costs, and the county will pitch
Soccer stadium trumps social needs. A politician laments over what’s wrong. Read Post »
If you haven’t noticed, Congress doesn’t represent a cross-section of America. Its members comprise a narrow sector of the nation, and that’s a problem for reasons I’ll discuss in a minute. First, let’s look at the numbers. Non-Hispanic whites make up 61 percent of our population, but 80 percent of representatives and senators are white.
More diversity would make for a better Congress Read Post »
With the divisive discord that permeates the news and our conversations, I think about the dearth of liberals in our world. There are plenty of liberals, you might say. No, there are plenty of progressives. There’s a difference. The term “liberal” has been perverted to refer to political progressives, when it actually means being broad-minded
We need more liberals Read Post »
What makes us think? Is it intellect that determines how we analyze problems? If so, how is it that two people of equal intelligence can look at the same set of facts and reach different conclusions? Let’s look at global warming. Two weeks ago, Columbus Business First carried an article about Bob Murray, the CEO
What makes us think? Read Post »
It wasn’t obvious at first, but then it dawned on me. Donald Trump and James A. Traficant, Jr., though they may be different in one sense, are very much alike. In case you don’t recall, Traficant was a Congressman from Youngstown, Ohio, who was expelled from the House in 2002. The differences between them may
Donald Trump and James A. Traficant, Jr.–Soulmates? Read Post »
The story a few weeks back about the bigotry displayed by two members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma gave rise to different viewpoints about how the situation should have been handled. Here are two that stand out. Both miss the mark. One reader of the Columbus Dispatch thought the
Fraternity racist chants–what about contrition? Read Post »
She thought she was doing the right thing. It must have been a matter of conscious, but as often happens, Vesna Roi’s decision was the result of failing to reconcile conflicting paradigms. Roi, a pediatrician in Detroit decided not to treat a newborn because her parents are gay. She made the decision, according to the
It’s supposed to be about the baby Read Post »
I’m a business lawyer, but this isn’t a blog about business law. This is a blog about important issues where I think we’ve lost sight of what’s right and what makes sense. It’s a forum where the discussion is about facts that are overlooked and not in the mainstream. I started this blog because our