James Thunder
We have presumed that, if traditional marriage laws are unconstitutional, the remedy is to make marriage eligibility less restrictive and allow same-sex couples to marry. What if, instead, we chose an alternative method to meet constitutional requirements, namely, revising our…
On Sunday, January 2, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered to have continuous one-on-one talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the “core” issues, including the status of Jerusalem and final borders, until they are all resolved. You may recall…
The issue of the eligibility of Barack Obama under the U.S. Constitution to occupy the office of the President of the United States was in the press again last week — this time in the context of an Army doctor,…
Periodically, the issue of federalism, that is, the role of the Federal Government vis-à-vis the role of the states, is the subject of attention across the country. So it is again. Forty years ago, President Nixon tried to rebalance the…
Another member of the Greatest Generation passed away — on October 29. My father, Ivan D. Thunder, was born in September 1913 in San Francisco, the son of an Irish immigrant and the daughter of an Irish immigrant surgeon. His…
On the subject of “sister states,” I begin with a word about Germany, and then turn to the United States. On October 3, Germany celebrated a national holiday called “Day of German Unity” (Tag der Deutschen Einheit). This holiday does…
On June 10, satellite phone contact was lost between Abby Sunderland, a 16-year old attempting to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo by sailboat, and her parents in California. Despite the loss of satellite phone contact, however,…
You have heard the story before. You have read the story before. Indeed, you have your own story. The particulars of my story are: About 1904 my 25-year-old paternal grandfather got on a boat and came to New York. He…
On August 10, Colin Mason of the Population Research Institute wrote the essay “Are Children the Enemy of Productivity?” He quoted Frank Cottrell Boyce’s article in the Guardian: There’s a belief that to do great work you need tranquility and…
We missed another anniversary, you and I, the other month. It’s not our fault really. We don’t have someone like Lynne Cheney or the late Paul Harvey starting our day with a “Great Americans Almanac” like Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s…
