With regard to the U.S. military, 2011 will always be remembered as the year that our Navy SEALs finally took out Osama bin Laden. President Obama rightfully told us the night bin Laden was killed, “Justice has been done”. But what else will 2011 be remembered for in terms of our military’s legacy? It certainly has the potential to be remembered as the year that the [...]
I’d like to talk about the arguments for and against same-sex marriage – the so-called “merits” of the case. The legal arguments surrounding Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to strike down proposition 8 are complex and interesting. The political gambles made by Boies and Olson on the plaintiff’s side, and by Walker on the judge’s, are exciting. Nonetheless, the legal aspect [...]
This is the sort of topic into which I normally don’t like to wade, but in the last couple weeks there have been two flare-ups around a public person’s ambiguous sexuality. First, a CBS blogger referred to possible SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan as “openly gay.” Since, if she is gay, she is not open, this prompted a harsh response from [...]
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