General Meese vs. ABA’s War on Christian Lawyers
By Ellis Washington 8 Aug. 2016 “The next generation of lawyers would all be taught Model Rule 8.4 as a binding requirement that is demanded of every attorney. New lawyers are taught to carefully obey...
View ArticleJustice Clarence Thomas at Hillsdale College
by Ellis Washington 15 Aug. 2016 Throughout my youth, even as the contradiction of segregation persisted, we revered the ideals of our great nation. We knew, of course, that our country was flawed, as...
View ArticleSCOTUS: Freedom vs. Fascism?
By Ellis Washington 19 Aug. 2016 Supreme Court building (Western fascade) Since at least the New Deal, the executive branch has been accumulating more and more power, and the current administration has...
View ArticleTrump vs. Holocaust Media
By Ellis Washington / Aug. 22, 2016 MEDIA BIAS ALERT! – “If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic...
View ArticleJudge Richard Posner on Law and Literature, Part 1
By Ellis Washington, J.D. 6 September 2016 Revised and Enlarged Edition (March 15, 1998) Published by Harvard University Press Obedience to legal rules to which we would have consented relieves us of...
View ArticleJudge Richard Posner on Law and Literature, Part 2
By Ellis Washington, J.D. *N.B.: This is the concluding section of my essay on Law and Literature based on Professor Richard A. Posner’s classic text, Law...
View ArticleLetter to an intellectual athlete
By Ellis Washington Robert Haywood, ‘my twin brother from another mother’ and Princeton Alumni You never know the impact people have on your life sometimes until many years later after you have...
View ArticleTraitors among U.S.
By Ellis Washington Oct. 5, 2016 trai-tor (noun) – a person who betrays a friend, country, principle, etc. Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but...
View ArticleSymposium—Obama’s love of Revisionist History
By Ellis Washington 8 Oct. 2016 Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used...
View ArticleShrines of Slaves
By Ellis Washington Don’t set out to raze all shrines—you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity—and the shrines are razed. ~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943) Altruism Slavery Am I my brother’s...
View ArticleHillary’s greatest treachery
By Ellis Washington 14 Oct. 2016 Hillary’s American Dream? — Europe on the brink: Open borders = Destroyed nation My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, sometime in...
View ArticleSecrecy, Deceit and HillaryLeaks, Part 1
By Ellis Washington Oct. 25, 2016 For all that is secret will eventually be brought into the open, and everything that is concealed will be brought to light and made known to all. ~ Luke 8:17 Sunlight...
View ArticleSecrecy, Deceit and HillaryLeaks, Part 2
By Ellis Washington Oct. 28, 2016 “I’m troubled by the revelation that you and this campaign actually discussed ‘using’ Eric Garner … Why would you want to ‘use my dad?” Garner tweeted along with a...
View ArticleSecrecy, Deceit and Hillary Leaks, Part 3
By Ellis Washington 4 Nov. 2016 She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred her pleasures all to herself. ~ Emile Zola (1840-1902) French...
View ArticleWelcome to America Romanian President Klaus Iohannis!
By Ellis Washington, J.D. 13 June 2017 Joint press conference—U.S. President Trump and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis (June 9, 2017) The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The...
View ArticleDershowitz vs. Toobin: Trump’s ‘Constitutional Authority’ in Firing Comey?
Alan Dershowitz (right) vs. Jeffrey Toobin (left) Once we start looking at bad reasons, we’re into Stalin and Beria, when the head of the KGB said, ‘show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.’ What...
View ArticleBolshevik Bezos—Part I
[Monday, 19 June 2017] White House Tech Summit hosted by President Trump. Notice the dead expression of Apple’s Tim Cook and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. To We the People that existential expression of utter...
View ArticleSymposium—On LaVar Ball, Kristine Leahy and Emmett Till
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound...
View ArticleLetter to Dean John Manning, Harvard Law School’s New Dean, Part 1
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never...
View ArticleLetter to Dean John Manning, Harvard Law School’s New Dean, Part 2
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never...
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