97 Articles

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Lawrence Wilkerson, And Barack Obama On Afghanistan.
Two Washington insiders express concerns over Obama's position on Afghanistan.

Monday, July 21, 2008
Forgetting The Fundamentals In Regard To Oil And Afghanistan.
Congress, the media and the experts are ignoring basic, fundamental points regarding oil and Afghanistan.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Evil Judges And Dumb Politicians
(1 comments) Summary For Op Ed News Recent events further stoke the idea that federal judges can be evil and most federal politicians are dumb.

Monday, June 23, 2008
Prosecuting War Crimes for Today and the Future
(9 comments) Iraq, amazingly enough after Viet Nam, is Viet Nam redux. War crimes trials are necessary to help ensure we do not someday get Iraq redux.

Monday, June 2, 2008
Alexander Pekelis And Drug Company Cases In Which Consumers Have Been Killed Or Injured
Summary For Op Ed News Once again the Supreme Court will deal with the question of whether, because of an incompetent FDA, greedy drug manufacturers should be allowed to escape responsibility for drugs that negligently kill or injure.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Eric Lichtblau's Defense Of The Times' Disastrous Failure To Print The NSA Spying Story in October 2004
In his book, Eric Lichtblau defends the Times failure to publish his story on the NSA spying in late October or early November 2004, when the story would have resulted in Bush not being reelected. Lichtblau's effort fails because the failure to publish was due to terrible judgment, lack of knowledge of history, and fear of right wing criticism.

Friday, May 9, 2008
Re: The Other Lesson Of Munich.
(1 comments) The Other Lesson of Munich

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Re: Courts Should Insist That The Political Branches Do Their Jobs
(1 comments) The judiciary should adopt a doctrine requiring the political branches to amass and consider information, facts, history, anecdotes and statistics, instead of allowing those branches to act in ignorance and without basis. This would be a revolutionary doctrine in the current state of affairs, but actually hearkens back to the days of the framers.

Monday, April 14, 2008
A Novel Idea: Prosecuting Guilty American Leaders For Torture
(13 comments) a law school dean discusses how there must be trial and punishment of those who sat in the White House plotting torture.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
There Is Little Charity In Wealthy Charitable Hospitals.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Re: Of Mamet And Chicago. Of Obamas And Elections
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Re: Hypocrisy Holds High Carnival, And Other Recent Travesties Of The Political/Media Complex.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Re: Alexander Pekelis, Arthur S. Miller, And Today's Supreme Court.
The current Supreme Court ignores lessons that are sixy years old and more.

Friday, February 29, 2008
RE: The Needed Mental Attributes Of A President; The Presidential Campaign And Forthcoming Appointments To The Supreme C

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Re: The Names Of The Washington Professional Sports Teams.
(1 comments)

Thursday, February 21, 2008
The New York Times, Cable TV, And McCain

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Re: Clarence Thomas, His Autobiography, And Related Matters Pertaining To America And The Supreme Court.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
The Great Louis Terkel. (You know him as Studs.)
(3 comments)

Friday, January 18, 2008
Richard Levin: President of Yale And King Of Comedy

Friday, January 18, 2008
Re: Two Matters: The Environmental Crisis As An Economic Opportunity, And John Edwards As An Angry Populist

Friday, January 11, 2008
Horse Race Rot, Cosmetic Crapola, And The Possible Need For Bloomberg.

Friday, January 4, 2008
Re: Halberstam And History
(1 comments) Summary For Op Ed News David Halberstam's book on Korea elucidates thoughts and actions in that war which have become constant patterns in America.

Friday, December 14, 2007
Re: Michael Mukasey And Jewish Conservatism.
(9 comments)

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Re: Robert Novak's "Prince of Darkness."

Monday, December 3, 2007
Arthur Sulzberger And Bill Keller On Bended Knee, Serf-Like.
The New York Times withheld yet another important story.

Thursday, November 29, 2007
Read 'Em And Weep For Harvard

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Gee, Gordon, That's Great

Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Re: The Longitudinal Lesson Of Paul Krugman's "The Conscience Of A Liberal."
(1 comments) SUMMARY FOR OP ED NEWS Paul Krugman's book tells us where we've been and, on that basis, where we should want to go.

Friday, October 12, 2007
The Mainstream Media Annoints Jack Goldsmith A Hero
Although The Conventional Wisdom Of The Pols And The Mainstream Media Have Now Anointed Him A Hero, In Truth Jack Goldsmith Stands Convicted Out Of His Own Mouth As Well As By Recent Events.

Thursday, September 13, 2007
More Garbage About Iraq From The Pols And The Media, Plus Stupid Is As Stupid Does.
More garbage about Iraq from the pols and the media, plus stupid is as stupid does.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Re: For The Guys From The 1950s Who Were In Ann Arbor Last Saturday, It Was Deja Vu All Over Again.
Michigan football

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Re: With Its Defeat By Appalachian State, Michigan Finally Realizes Its Many, Many Decades Old Desire To Be The Harvard
Summary For Op Ed News Our ahistorical society does not remember that, before there was Appalachian State/Michigan in 2007, there was Centre College/Harvard in 1921.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Tell Me About Michael Bloomberg
(2 comments) Summary For OpEd News Would Michael Bloomberg be a good choice to head a third party ticket? Lawrence Velvel asks readers to say what they think and know about him.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007
We Desperately Need A New Electoral System, New Methods Of Campaigning, And New Types Of People Running For Office
(10 comments) Summary For Op Ed News Dean Lawrence Velvel says that, especially because of the need for a third party to change the national security state, America needs to overcome the present effects of the Electoral College, to change the method of electing Congresspeople, and to change both the kinds of people who run for office and methods of campaigning.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007
The Federal Courts Bow Down, Abjectly, To The Secrecy Demands Of The National Security State
Summary For OpEd News The federal courts are the handmaiden of secrecy.

Thursday, August 16, 2007
The Speech and Debate Clause and Honesty
Summary For Op Ed News Using the vehicle of the investigation and prosecution of Congressman William Jefferson, Lawrence Velvel discusses the disregarded relationship between honesty and the speech and debate clause.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007
The Access to Experimental Drugs Case

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
The Federal Judiciary, Aping The German Judges, Allows The Government To Force You To Die When You Are Sick.
Summary For Op Ed News A leading U.S. Court of Appeals allows the government to prevent terminally ill patients from receiving experimental drugs that conceivably might save their lives, even though there is no other medicine or treatment that can save them.

Monday, August 6, 2007
Jean Edward Smith And Joe Biden.
SUMMARY FOR OP ED NEWS Comments on comments by Jean Edward Smith and Joe Biden.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Increasing The Size Of The Supreme Court.
SUMMARY FOR OP ED NEWS The strident attacks on historian Jean Smith for suggesting an increase in the size of the Supreme Court are insupportable.

Friday, July 27, 2007
Are We Rome? We Are Rome.
Summary For Op Ed News Cullen Murphy's book "Are We Rome?" shows an alarming number and degree of similarities between the reasons which caused Rome to fall and the situation in the United States since 1989.

Monday, June 25, 2007
"[A] Central Paradox of American Politics."

Friday, June 22, 2007
The High Price of Gasoline
(1 comments) SUMMARY FOR OP ED NEWS Because of the high price of gasoline, a letter sent to a prominent NPR public affairs show about its failure to discuss the operations of the futures markets seems worthy of being put on the public record

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The Times' News Judgment In Its Obits Of June 7th
SUMMARY OF OPED NEWS Dean Lawrence Velvel excoriates the New York Times' news judgment in putting the obituary of Jim Clark, the brutal Sheriff of Selma, Alabama, at the top of the obit page and giving it one third of a page.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Central Points And The Frivolous News Judgments Of The News Media
SUMMARY FOR OP ED NEWS The abysmal news judgment of the news media causes it to focus on the inessential instead of on central points.

Thursday, June 7, 2007
It is Crucial to Focus on Simple, Heart-of-the-Matter Points, Instead of Trying to Complicate the Simple.

Monday, June 4, 2007
The Current Intersection
(1 comments)

Thursday, May 31, 2007
Response From A Reader
(2 comments)

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
The New Big Lie
Summary for Op Ed News Dean Lawrence R. Velvel assails the politicians in Congress who lie by saying that the troops would not receive protection if Congress enacted a cut off of funds for the war.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Dr. Demento In The Oval Office
(1 comments) SUMMARY FOR OP ED NEWS There is increasing coalescence around the view that George Bush cannot disengage from Iraq because this would require him to concede to a gross mistake, a concession that would psychologically destroy his (deservedly) wafer thin sense of personal competence.

Monday, May 21, 2007
Landlords Are from Neptune, Tenant Are from Jupiter.

Monday, May 7, 2007
Let's Hear It For Hillary

Monday, May 7, 2007
What Would Rudolph Say

Friday, May 4, 2007
More Moral Meltdown In America.
(1 comments)

Friday, May 4, 2007
Rupert Murdoch's Purchase Of The Wall Street Journal Would Be Another Large Wall Street Nail In The Coffin Of Competent

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
On Being "Off The Air" Of The Internet For A Period, On Imus, On Blacksburg, And On Bill Moyer's Show About Mass Media

Wednesday, April 18, 2007
We Fight And Lose Wars In Which We Cannot, Dare Not, Use Our Major Advantages.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007
We Fight And Lose Wars In Which We Cannot, Dare Not, Use Our Major Advantages.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Remarks On Torture And Secrecy By The Redoubtable Scott Horton.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Reactionary Federal Appellate Judges, And What Can Be Done About Them.
(1 comments)

Thursday, March 29, 2007
Re: The Presidency Has Become A Great Business Opportunity
(1 comments) Summary For Op Ed News The Presidency has become a terrific business opportunity which the Clintons have used to full advantage and are poised to exploit still further, while Lincoln turns in his grave.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Birmingham And Baghdad; The South In 1963 And The United States in 2007; African Americans And Iraqis.

Thursday, March 22, 2007
If You Want To Know Why We Keep Fighting Wars, Look No Further Than The South.
(22 comments)

Friday, March 16, 2007
Why There Was No Indictment On The Underlying Crime Of Outing Valerie Plame
(7 comments)

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Small Is All.
(1 comments)

Thursday, March 8, 2007
The Long Line.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Let Us Now Praise Honest Men.
(1 comments)

Thursday, February 15, 2007
The Couch: Bush Is On It And Congress Should Be
(2 comments) Summary for Op Ed News Psychiatrists are again analyzing the sociopathic George Bush, and they should be analyzing Congress too. These people are not like you and I.

Monday, February 5, 2007
The Preternaturally Prolific Posner on Plagiarism
(2 comments) Summary For Op Ed News Symptomatic of the views of the elite in this country, Judge Richard Posner finds reasons to justify or excuse dishonesty.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Re: Stephen Kinzer, The Philippines Insurrection And America Today

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
The Urgent Need For Information On The Results (I.e., The Outcomes) Of Medical Care
(1 comments)

Friday, January 19, 2007
Lessons From The Philippines Insurrection And Our Overthrow Of Mossadegh, Part II.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007
The Urgent Need For Information On The Results (I.e., The Outcomes) Of Medical Care

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Two Disparate Examples of The Principle That You Can Depend Upon Most People To Do The Wrong Thing Most Of The Time
The refusal to cut off funds for a failed war, thus condemning thousands to deaths and maiming for no purpose, and the presence on the short list for the Harvard Presidency of a candidate who has in effect condoned academic dishonesty, are two examples of the ever – operative principle of human affairs that you can depend upon most people to do the wrong thing most of the time.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Comment on Blog
Professor Alvin Goldman suggests an alternative method - - one not involving a cutoff of funds - - by which Congress could expeditiously end the war.

Monday, January 8, 2007
We May Need A Huge March On Washington To Force Democrats To Put An End To The War.
(4 comments)

Wednesday, January 3, 2007
What The Media Have Not Said Upon Ford's Passing.

Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Courteous Cannon Shots to the South, with Like Volleys Returned

Thursday, December 21, 2006
1898 Redux

Thursday, December 21, 2006
The DeFacto Closing Of The Flagships And Possible Replacements For Them.

Friday, December 15, 2006
Sanity, Competence, And The Latest Washington Crock About Iraq.
(2 comments)

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Pretending That November 7th Never Happened.
Washington officials, pundits, and legislators are pretending that nothing happened on November 7th and that we therefore can stay in Iraq for a lengthy period. As well, George Bush's statement on the subject create a legitimate question as to whether he is fully sane.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Social Justice At Brandeis

Monday, November 27, 2006
What Schembechler Accomplished.

Thursday, November 16, 2006
Re: Conventional Wisdom And Bad People In Washington.
(1 comments)

Friday, November 10, 2006
Let Us Now Throw Rumsfeld Under The Bus
(1 comments)

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Re: Honesty, History, And A College Of History And Law

Friday, November 3, 2006
Re: Mock Letters To Bush, Pretend Speeches For Bush,And Reactionary Judges.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Of The Conference On Presidential Powers, And Stealth Immunity For Bushman
This post summarizes some of the most important points made at a recent conference of experts on increasing presidential powers, and discusses the recent law providing immunity to George Bush for authorizing torture.

Friday, October 13, 2006
Reposting A Blog On An American Third Party.
(5 comments)

Friday, October 6, 2006
America's Moral Meltdown
(13 comments) The dean of a law school discusses the moral disaster that America has become.

Monday, September 25, 2006
A Conference On "Presidential Power In America."
This posting describes the reasons for, topics of, and speakers and panelists at a major conference on presidential power in the United States.

Thursday, September 21, 2006
Bob Herbert's Recent Truths And Their Consequences
Bob Herbert is the first member of the mass media to recognize a crucial truth. To wit, Bush wants no retroactive liability for torture -- a felony -- because he is guilty of this crime. Herbert also recognized that the reason Bush wants military tribunals to try detainees is that civilian courts won't allow evidence to be introduced if it was obtained by torture or is the "fruit" of evidence obtained by torture.

Friday, September 15, 2006
Re: The Pretexter Stain: Let History Know You Want To Be Included Out.
(4 comments)

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Eric Lomax's "The Railway Man" And Today's America
The Railway Man, reminds us why Americans of a certain period hated the Germans. The discovery of the concentration camps caused American soldiers to begin to hate the Germans, to regard them all as beasts, and sometimes to take no prisoners but instead to kill the Germans without quarter and without mercy. The camps were, he says, the reason the Americans began to feel they were on a crusade.

Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Re: Addendum On The IBM Pension Case.
(1 comments)

Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Re: The Seventh Circuit's Abominable Decision In The IBM Pension Plan Case.
(1 comments)