Are Americans Just Mean and Stupid?
On page one of today’s San Francisco Chronicle, above the fold, is another article concerning California’s prisons. If I did the math right, California’s prisons hold 7.2% of the nation’s prisoners,...
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There is a saying in the legal community that “hard cases create bad law.” When I was young, whenever I would explain my behavior as contingency planning based on the possibility that something might...
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In Judaism, there is a tradition known as “building a fence around the law.” As the page linked in that last sentence indicates, it derives from a verse in the Tanakh — the Hebrew scriptures known to...
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