Paris This is definitely new. Having a US president welcome a recession is unique, especially after the Biden term where we read, almost daily, about the efforts to avoid one or find a “soft landing,” whatever that might have been. Now in the Trump version of the “end times,” we’re expected to embrace …
Category: United States
The Problem of Honor
Pearl River The Knights of Labor, an early American laborunion,n used to bar bankers and lawyers from membership in their organization. These days, in the United States, it’s easy to see why lawyers were included in such a ban. Many of us could have quite a long and engaged argument about the evidence in …
Make Bill of Attainder Work Against the Madness
New Orleans The United States Constitution is clear. The government can’t punish individuals without judicial determination, or in America’s whacky world, corporations, since the courts have ruled that they are “individuals” for legal purposes. I don’t want to dive down that hole with you this minute, though, but stay with me. Article I, …