165 Articles

Friday, November 13, 2009
The Recent Change In The Name Of Our Country.
(2 comments) The recent change in the name of our country.

Friday, November 6, 2009
Memorandum of Objector, Lawrence R. Velvel, In Opposition to the Position of the Trustee and SIPC on Net Equity.
Discussion of crucial net equity question in Madoff.

Friday, October 23, 2009
The Briefs Of The Trustee And SIPC On The Net Equity Question.
The briefs of the Trustee and SIPC on the net equity question.

Friday, October 9, 2009
More On Net Equity. Plus Picower.
More on net equity and Picower.

Friday, October 2, 2009
The Report of SEC Inspector General Kotz.
Summary of the report of the SEC Inspector General Kotz.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Request For Production Of Documents
Request For Production Of Documents

Thursday, September 24, 2009
The Government's Motion Of September 21, 2009 in the Criminal Case Against Madoff.
(1 comments) The Government's Motion Of September 21, 2009 in the Criminal Case Against Madoff.

Thursday, September 24, 2009
Memorandum objecting to the Government's motion dated September 21, 2009
(1 comments) Memorandum objecting to the Government's motion dated September 21, 2009

Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Greater And Lesser Potpourri Regarding Madoff, Starting With The IRS And Then Moving To Other Matters.Part II.
Greater and lesser potpourri regarding Madoff, starting with the IRS and then moving to other matters. Part II.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Greater And Lesser Potpourri Regarding Madoff, Starting With The IRS And Then Moving To Other Matters.Part 1
Greater and lesser potpourri regarding Madoff, starting with the IRS and then moving to other matters.

Monday, August 17, 2009
Amicus Brief filed in Bankruptcy Court
Questions for the Madoff bankruptcy judge.

Thursday, July 30, 2009
Madoff: What Should Now Be Done?
(1 comments) Madoff: What Should Now Be Done?

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Irving Picard's Motion To Dismiss The Complaint Filed By Helen Chaitman.
Irving Picard's Motion To Dismiss The Complaint Filed By Helen Chaitman.

Monday, July 27, 2009
Letter to Diana Henriques
IRS as custodian of Madoff accounts.

Friday, July 24, 2009
The Never Discussed Impact Of Net Equity Question, Impact of Discovery on SIPC's Position. Part IV
The Full And Never Discussed Impact Of The Net Equity Question, The Potentially Devastating Impact Of Discovery On SIPC's Position, And Matters Of Argumentation And Morality.

Thursday, July 23, 2009
The Impact of Net Equity Question, Impact of Discovery on SIPC's Position and Argumentation. Part II
The Full And Never Discussed Impact Of The Net Equity Question, The Potentially Devastating Impact Of Discovery On SIPC's Position, And Matters Of Argumentation And Morality.

Thursday, July 23, 2009
The Never Discussed Impact Of Net Equity Question, Impact of Discovery on SIPC's Position. Part III
The Full And Never Discussed Impact Of The Net Equity Question, The Potentially Devastating Impact Of Discovery On SIPC's Position, And Matters Of Argumentation And Morality. Part III

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The Never Discussed Impact Of The Net Equity Question, The Devastating Impact Of Discovery On SIPC's Position, And Argum
The full and never discussed impact of the net equity question, the potentially devastating impact of discovery on SIPC's postion, and matters of argumentation and morality.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The Vast Amount That We Don't Know About The Madoff Matter.
(1 comments) The vast amount that we don't know about the Madoff matter.

Friday, June 19, 2009
SIPC's Objections To The Posting Called "Irving Picard's Three Percent Commission In The Madoff Case."
SIPC's objections to the posting called "Irving Picard's Three Percent Commission In The Madoff Case."

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
A Forthcoming Article Regarding A SIPC Objection To The Posting Entitled "Irving Picard's Three Percent Commission."
A forthcoming article regarding a SIPC objection to the posting entitled "Irving Picard's Three Percent Commission In The Madoff Case."

Thursday, June 11, 2009
Irving Picard's Three Percent Commission In The Madoff Case.
Irving Picard's three percent commission in the Madoff case.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The Infestation of Government Values In Industry.
(2 comments) A discussion of the differing values of government and business.

Friday, May 22, 2009
Letter to Douglas Shulman
The IRS impramatur on Madoff.

Monday, May 18, 2009
The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann and the Obama Administration, Part III
(6 comments) The four torture memos, Eichmann, and the Obama Administration.

Friday, May 15, 2009
The Concept of Net Equity Being Used by the Trustee and SIPC
The concept of net equity being used by the Trustee and SIPC.

Thursday, May 7, 2009
The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, and the Obama Administration, Part II
(2 comments) The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, And The Obama Administration, Parts I and II.

Friday, May 1, 2009
Justice Jackson's (pre-justiceship) Speech of December 1936.
(2 comments) Justice Jackson's (pre-justiceship) speech of December 1936.

Thursday, April 23, 2009
The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, And The Obama Administration. Part I
(2 comments) The four torture memos, Eichmann, and the Obama Administration.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Feeder Funds And The SIPC
Feeder Funds And The SIPC

Friday, April 17, 2009
Was The IRS As Culpable As The SEC In The Madoff Scam?
Was the IRS as culpable as the SEC in the Madoff mess?

Thursday, April 2, 2009
Madoff And The Mafia: A Mere Speculation Or Almost A Sure Thing?
(2 comments) Madoff and the Mafia.

Thursday, April 2, 2009
Letter To Judge Chin Regarding Madoff's Guilty Plea, And A Response To A Madoff Victim Regarding The Clear, Simple, Cura
(1 comments) Letter To Judge Chin Regarding Madoff's Guilty Plea, And A Response To A Madoff Victim Regarding The Clear, Simple, Curative Bond Proposal.

Monday, March 30, 2009
Madoff: The Simple, Clean, Curative Bond Proposal
(1 comments) Madoff: The Simple, Clean, Curative Bond Proposal That Has Been Completely Forgotten.

Thursday, March 26, 2009
Correction to Blog Entitled "Is This Country Robert Welch Or Joe McCarthy."
(1 comments) This is a correction to the blog entitled "Is This Country Robert Welch Or Joe McCarthy."

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Is This Country Joseph Welch or Joe McCarthy?
(1 comments) This country must choose between prosecutions and decency, or letting culprits walk, which would reward indecency.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Tax Views Of Deadeye, The SEC's Customary Action, And Losses of Non Madoff Investors.
The tax views of Deadeye, the SEC's customary action, and losses of non Madoff investors.

Friday, March 20, 2009
The Serious Shortcomings Of The Guidance Issued On Tuesday By The IRS.
The serious shortcomings of the guidance issued on Tuesday by the IRS.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
No Siree Nocera[h]. You Are Dead Wrong.
No siree nocera[h]. You are dead wrong.

Monday, March 16, 2009
Madoff Did Not Exactly Take It on the Chin Last Thursday
(1 comments) Judge Chin should have rejected Madoff's guilty plea.

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Re: Aspects Of The General Economic Disaster; More On The SEC's Culpability In Madoff.
Aspects of the general economic disaster and more on the SEC's culpability in Madoff.

Monday, February 23, 2009
Re: Of Markopolos And Madoff, New Times, Conventional Wisdom, SIPC, Clawbacks, Equitable Estoppel, Declaratory Judgment
More on the Madoff horror show.

Thursday, February 5, 2009
More On The Madoff Mess: A Post In Three Installments. Part III.
More on the Madoff mess.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
More On The Madoff Mess: A Post In Three Installments. Part II.
More on the Madoff Mess.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
More On The Madoff Mess: A Post In Three Installments. Part I.
(3 comments) More on the Madoff mess.

Saturday, January 24, 2009
Investing With Bernie Madoff: How It Happeneed, What Happened, And What Might Be Done. Part VI.
Investing with Bernie Madoff: How it happened, what happened, and what might be done.

Friday, January 23, 2009
Investing With Bernie Madoff: How It Happeneed, What Happened, And What Might Be Done. Part V.
Investing with Bernie Madoff: How it happened, what happened, and what might be done.

Thursday, January 22, 2009
Investing With Bernie Madoff: How It Happeneed, What Happened, And What Might Be Done. Part IV.
(3 comments) Investing with Bernie Madoff: How it happened, what happened, and what might be done.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Investing With Bernie Madoff: How It Happeneed, What Happened, And What Might Be Done. Part III.
Investing with Bernie Madoff: How it happened, what happened, and what might be done.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Investing With Bernie Madoff: How It Happeneed, What Happened, And What Might Be Done. Part II.
(1 comments) Investing with Bernie Madoff: How it happened, what happened, and what might be done. Part II.

Monday, January 19, 2009
Investing With Bernie Madoff: How It Happened, What Happened, What Might Be Done (Part I)
(2 comments) Investing with Bernie Madoff: How it happened, what happened, and what might be done. Part I.

Friday, January 9, 2009
Preliminary Memorandum of the Justice Robert H. Jackson Conference on Federal Prosecutions of War Criminals
(6 comments) The Steering Committee of the Justice Robert H. Jackson Conference has released a preliminary report on who should be prosecuted for war crimes and why.

Monday, December 22, 2008
Goodbye And Good Riddance To 2008.
(1 comments) Goodbye and good riddance to 2008.

Thursday, December 11, 2008
Re: Fitzgerald and Blagojevich
(6 comments) Possible reasons why Fitzgerald brought a case against Blagojevich

Friday, November 7, 2008
A Practical, Defensible One-Off Solution To The Problem Of True Terrorists At Gitmo.
(2 comments) A practical, defensible one-off solution to the problem of true terrorists at Gitmo.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
Obama And Afghanistan; Obama And The Second Coming Of Clintonia.
(1 comments) Summary For OpEd News Pray Obama should not plan a war in Afghanistan or an administration of Clintonites.

Monday, November 3, 2008
Re: Bring Back Bump Elliott.
(1 comments) Bring back Bump Elliott

Monday, October 27, 2008
For A Speedy Recovery, Eliminate Certain Capital Gains Taxes
(1 comments) For a speedy recovery, eliminate certain capital gains taxes.

Friday, October 10, 2008
Re: Creating And Sustaining The Unsustainable.
(1 comments) Our economic trajectory has long been visibly unsustainable.

Thursday, October 9, 2008
The Questions At The So-Called Debates Should Reflect The Answers, Since The Answers Will Not Reflect The Questions
Summary For OpEd News Lawrence Velvel proposes, only half in jest, that since the answers at the so-called debates won't reflect the questions, the questions should reflect the answers.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Alan Dershowitz on Whether to Prosecute Executive Branch Criminals
(10 comments) Lawrence Velvel strongly criticizes Professor Alan Dershowitz's argument that the next administration should not investigate the very serious crimes of Bush, Cheney and Co.

Thursday, October 2, 2008
Will Ordinary People Continue To Have To Pay Unaffordable Rates Of Interest After The Bailout
(2 comments) Will ordinary people continue to have to pay unaffordable rates of interest after the bailout?

Friday, September 19, 2008
A Crisis of American Capitalism
(3 comments) The Wall Street meltdown has occurred because of the prevailing culture.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The Bigger the Company, the More Disastrous the Mistake.
(1 comments) The destruction of the Glass-Steagall Act and of antitrust, destruction which opened the door to gigantic, combined investment/commercial banks, also opened the door to economic disasters made larger and more destructive by the size of the banks involved.

Thursday, September 4, 2008
Attempted Statutory Immunity For The Executive's War Crimes.
(14 comments) The Bush Administration, with McCain's assistance, has obtained statutory provisions immunizing it against liability for war crimes (including torture) in American courts. Will these provisions be an effective defense? Will they pre-emptively deter prosecution, so that we may never find out?

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Momentary and the More Permanent
(1 comments) Starting from at least 1898, if not from King Philip's War in the seventeenth century, this country has often gotten what it wanted via war, and much of its citizenry is brainwashed to think war is the way. We are in dire need of both intelligence and long term thinking.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Mukasey -- The Orthodox Jew Who Is A Disgrace To Our Religion -- Again Protects Evil.
(3 comments) Michael Mukasey disgraces our religion again.

Monday, July 28, 2008
More MSM Malfeasance -- The Conyers Hearing And Tom Brokaw's So-Called "Interview" Of Obama.
(2 comments) The corporate MSM's heads are in the wrong place about Conyers' hearing and Obama.

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)