Wash Park Prophet

There are important gaps in our public law system: * If we are to reject taxpayer standing, voter standing, and citizen standing, we need to...

 

There are lots of theories about why this is the case. It isn't just better medical care that turns homicides into aggravated assaults, ...

Prosecuting federal officials for crimes arising under state law committed in the course of their federal duties is not only not forbidden b...

  Good parenting is raising children who are a force to be reckoned with. For those not familiar with the comic, Puck (left) informally adop...

In a long period of disuse during the pandemic, almost all of my suits, many of them favorites that I'd had for many years, became unusa...

The liberal answer to the despotism of Russia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and other petrostates is ultimately pretty straightforward: use tech...

This is just from this week and only captures about half of the miserable awful things that happened. It is one nightmare after another. Som...

 

A 70 year old friend of mine writes on Facebook that she just got a new electric snowblower because her "HOA dues no longer cover snow...

  This is a very long data set (1213 years), that wasn't designed by anyone concerned about human created global warming.

I have my 2026 World Almanac now and there are some statistics I keep a close eye on. * As of March 31, 2025, the U.S. had 1,307,679 active ...

  The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War ...

Americans pay a huge amount for healthcare, while getting results that are below the developed world norm. Partially this is because a mixed...

* A study linked eating cheese to lower dementia risk . * Teen alcohol, nicotine, and drug use in the U.S. is at record lows , and cocaine a...

* Property crime rates in 2024 were the lowest that they've been since 1976. Pretty sure that the labeling of this lines is wrong. * Imm...

Draw whatever conclusions you wish. I suspect that lawyers would also show wide variation based upon the nature of their practice.

Private equity is playing a larger role in the housing market. Why? Because rapid increases in interest rates, that have increased faster th...

Who is winning and losing in the post-Trump 2.0 economy? Winning New York City (tech) San Francisco (finance and tech) San Jose (tech) Losin...

Experience tells us which economic theories are right and which are not, often with unexpected results. * In theory, a higher minimum wage s...