April 4, 2018
Surgeon General Warns US Citizens To Carry Opioid Antidote
Great High Mountain
“You,” Mother Jones yelled at the gallused, grizzled men. “have stood and seen yourselves robbed.” Of every ton of coal they mined, “so much was taken out, and professional murderers were hired to keep you in subjugation, and you paid for it! Damn you, you are not fit to live under the flag. You paid […]
March 23, 2018
Feds Pass Spending Bill With Impact On Health Care
March 23, 2018
Posner Attacks
March 15, 2018
Laws Matter: Alabama Sheriff Pockets $750K Under Obscure Law By Starving Inmates
The Trial of Sheriff Sid Hatfield
My great great uncle, LP Somerville, ran away from home to fight in the Spanish American War that made Teddy Roosevelt famous as well as President. Like many of the mountain settlers in Appalachia, LP was proud, adventurous, self-reliant and patriotic. Even ornery. That did not make him unique in West Virginia. I can remember […]
The Whiskey Rebellion (Part 2): The Dreadful Night
In 1781, Hugh Henry Brackenridge left the relatively cosmopolitan city of Philadelphia to ‘make his bones’ in what was known as The Wilderness. He settled at The Forks (where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers meet to form the Ohio) – or present day Pittsburgh. He lived through the first open and armed rebellion in the […]
February 16, 2018
Brennan Justice Center: How To HackProof Our Elections
February 15, 2018
Branch3 Holding It All Together Under Attack
February 14, 2018
Some Lawyers Are Like Superheros: Robert Mueller indicts a bunch of Russians