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Lawrence R. Velvel is a cofounder and the Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law, and is the founder of the American College of History and Legal Studies.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 26, 2008 The Momentary and the More Permanent
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Evil Judges And Dumb Politicians
Summary For Op Ed News
Recent events further stoke the idea that federal judges can be evil and most federal politicians are dumb.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, June 23, 2008 Prosecuting War Crimes for Today and the Future
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.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Re: Courts Should Insist That The Political Branches Do Their Jobs
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.