Jack Park
What could possibly go wrong with a federal database run by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) that includes the date of birth, complete current address, and a “unique identifying number” from a passport or a driver’s license, as well…
In my more than 40 years of practicing law, I have learned that while lawsuits can bring disputes to an end, they cannot solve problems. Unfortunately, not all other lawyers have learned the same thing, and the effects of this…
The People’s Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories That Define Him By Amul Thapar (Regnery Gateway, 304 pages, $33) Cases decided by the United States Supreme Court frequently involve individuals who present compelling stories that get buried in the…
That question should answer itself. But, in the current environment, that answer has become more and more obscure. The proliferation of top-down, politically motivated directives from the Biden administration detracts from military preparedness and saps the ardor and unity from…
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay By Craig L. Symonds (Oxford University Press, 496 pages, $29.95) We have no dearth of Political Generals, that is, with a capital “P.” Gen. Mark Milley, for example, claimed…
The combination of class action lawsuits and contingency fee payment arrangements has reached its apotheosis in today’s mass tort system. Not only is this flawed system harming American business to the tune of well over $300 billion annually, but it…
Eighty years ago, on Aug. 7, 1942, American Marines went ashore on the tropical islands of Guadalcanal and its tiny neighbors Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo. This marked the first sustained offensive action by American land forces in the Pacific. After…
On May 4, with a more recent update, the Committee to Unleash Prosperity and FreedomWorks released a report card on the COVID-19 response by the Nation’s governors. Nine governors, eight of whom were Republicans from the South or Midwest, got…
The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America’s Deal with the Devil By Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery & Keith Chester (Regnery History, 396 pages, $29.99) The Hidden Nazi uncovers a previously uncovered war criminal, Waffen-SS General Hans Kammler, who was never…
One way of thinking about the job of an agency Inspector General (IG) is to see it as scraping barnacles from the agency’s hull and warning it about legal shoals. If an IG does that, the agency will do its…
