“The bombs in Vietnam explode at home,” admonished Martin Luther King at the outset America’s incursion in Southeast Asia. The ensuing carnage from that ill-fated war has taken on new dimensions four decades later in the aftermath of Bush’s equally…
Recently, NASA announced that its spacecraft Voyager I, which was launched in 1977 during the Carter administration, has left our solar system and is hurtling into interstellar space. Voyager is currently an astonishing 11.6 billion miles from Earth. While Voyager’s scientific…
The Pentagon has been preparing for “a punitive strike” on Syria to degrade its chemical weapons capabilities and deter any further use of those horrible weapons. The Navy has dispatched a fleet of four destroyers and a submarine all with…
It was the year 2045 and America no longer manufactured anything. The GNP was now based entirely on the service industry. The value of the U.S. dollar had slumped to an all-time low. The yen and euro now ruled the…
Congress is going on vacation for the entire month of August… again! The lawmakers’ “summer recess” is an annual tradition that neither the troubled economy, the continuing sequester, nor the urgent need for immigration reform will change. All that proclaimed…
They were formally summoned into court in Sanford, Florida, in early June without being accused of any crimes or misdemeanors. For many of them, it was their first time in a courthouse, much less a courtroom. Once in the courthouse,…
Former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon wants to make sure college athletes get big cut of the revenues they generate for their colleges. He is the plaintiff in a class action antitrust lawsuit pending in federal court in Northern California…
The federal law establishing our military justice system, the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), was enacted in 1950. With relatively minor changes made by Congress in 1968 and 1983, it has served as the charter for justice and “good…
Strange as it may seem in today’s stalemated environment, Congress is capable of acting quickly when spurred on by crises or scandals: The U.S.A. Patriot Act in response to September 11, the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act in response to major corporate…