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Ramona Falls
Ramona Falls is one of the most popular hikes in the Mount Hood Wilderness. The falls is different from most Oregon waterfalls in that it pours over a cliff of columnar basalt, which breaks the fall...
View ArticleMcDonald v. Chicago
The Supreme Court today invalidated Chicago’s law against citizens having firearms for self protection. I agree with the decision, but wish they had decided it on the basis of the “privileges and...
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Know Thyself
I just listened to a Philosophy Bites podcast about self-knowledge. The ancient philosophers gave this as an important aphorism, and Socrates urged that we examine our lives. This podcast explored...
View ArticleThe psychopath’s brain and the courts
NPR has been running a series on how new findings in neurophysiology of psychopaths are affecting sentencing of criminals with this trait. In some cases, it has not swayed juries (e.g. Chicago). In...
View ArticleThis day in history
Besides the obvious adoption by the Continental Congress of the Declaration of Independence, it is interesting to note that exactly 50 years after that Declaration, on 4 Jul 1826 both John Adams and...
View ArticleMichael Steele is Right!
Some Republicans are in a lather because of chairman Michael Steele’s observations that the War in Afghanistan is not likely to be winnable and that it is Obama’s War. While he failed to mention that...
View ArticleThe Right to Bear Arms
I think most Americans don’t understand the full context of the right to bear arms in the Second Amendment. The typical Englishman did not have the right to bear arms. This was reserved for knights,...
View ArticleThe Constitution in Exile
I normally don’t read books by Fox News commentators, but I saw Judge Andrew Napolitano interviewed by Ralph Nader on CSPAN Book TV and was interested in his principled advocacy of strict...
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