For more than a decade, only we here at LoS, it has seemed, correctly characterized the seemingly endless “low interest rate environment correctly. See here. And here. And here. And here.
And since most of my readers
Eleven Years Later
By John Regan
We posted a lot about Casey Anthony back when her trial was going on.
In 2011.
So there’s a new documentary out that seems to conclude, as we did 11 years ago, that Casey’s father was a logical suspect in…
More Of The Same
By John Regan
So, the SCOTUS nominee coming out of the Biden administration is being hailed as an historic departure from past appointments, and a victory for diversity and racial justice.
It’s nothing of the kind.
What the SCOTUS most needs now is…
Form, Substance, And The Supreme Soviet
By John Regan
We haven’t posted in a long while. We make no apologies. We’ve been busy.
Something has occurred to us recently that warrants a post or two. A theme we have visited before. Maybe a timely theme as well.
What, really,…
Who Could Possibly Know…
By John Regan
whether a $60 million pain and suffering award was “too much” and needed to be cut in half?
The Appellate Division, First Department. That’s who.
It’s a lot of money either way, of course. At least, in context it…
“Meticulous Rebuke”
By John Regan
We take it that Dahlia Lithwick over at Slate would generally not approve of District Court judges issuing “rebukes” to the SCOTUS. But she loves this one.
We at LoS are quite struck by this passage:
In order to…
Hyper-technical
By John Regan
Read the SCOTUS blog article on Brown v. Davenport – upon which we have opined before – and see if you can figure out just what the issue is here.
The best thing to say about it, at this point,…
The Toppling Of A Mayor
By John Regan
Politics ain’t beanbag. We get that.
She knocked off Tom Richards, who was an odd choice for Rochester mayor, speaking demographically. But he was not odd in one important respect: the shadowy powers that be held him in high regard.…
The Election Of The President
By John Regan
At some point someone has to say something. Might as well be us.
There’s a website characterized as “far right” on Widipedia called “The Gateway Pundit” (“GP”)
GP reports that there was a “rally” yesterday in Georgia presided…
Open Letter To Don McClean
By John Regan
Last verse of the immortal “American Pie”:
I met a girl who sang the bluesAnd I asked her for some happy newsBut she just smiled and turned awayAnd I went down to the sacred storewhere I’d heard the music, years…