Ever since Rome decided to grab the mantle for itself in 1054 and mix politics with religion, patronage has played a role in the careers of priests, bishops, and cardinals. Of course, I am not naive to think politics and the lust for power was not present before the West broke from the East, but […]
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Yes, you can is the quick answer. A few weeks ago, I published a post on the Gazette shooting which involved a newspaper story that sparked the tragic shooting. Fortunately, not all social media reviews of restaurants, doctors, lawyers, and other businesses result in mass shootings. However, there can be consequences to posting a review online.
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Ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft are so popular with Floridians, they are outpacing traditional transportation companies like taxis and car services. Part of their popularity is their ubiquity. They’re relatively quick and cheap. But there’s one hitch. Who pays when an Uber or Lyft vehicle is involved in a car accident? In May 2017, Florida
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July 4th is tomorrow, a Wednesday. That won’t dampen revelers and parties from getting out of hand. The 4th of July holiday is right in the middle of summer-a little over a month since the last holiday Memorial Day and more than a month to the next one-Labor Day. Perhaps that’s why so many people
The tragic massacre that took place at the Capital Gazette, a local Annapolis Maryland newspaper owned by the Washington Post, appears to have been sparked by a 2011 court case in which the shooter, Jarrod Ramos, pleaded guilty to a harassment charge in the District Court of Maryland, according to court documents. An article was
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No, that’s not a typo. It’s an important legal doctrine that governs how the judicial branch of our government functions. If you haven’t ever heard the term blame your 7th grade civics teacher. Stare decisis is Latin which means “to stand by things decided”. In other words, precedent. The bulk of court opinions and decisions
The US Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling by a vote of 5-4 and struck a victory for privacy rights. Carpenter v. United States is the first case about phone location data that the Supreme Court has ruled on. That makes it a landmark decision regarding how law enforcement agencies can use technology as
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To many Catholic insiders, today’s news that US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the retired archbishop of Washington DC has been removed from public ministry comes as no surprise. For decades, many knew there were two sides to this prince of the church-Uncle Ted who sought young seminarians as bunkmates and sexual mates and the high powered
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I’m not going to take sides in this post. I’m going to lay out the facts after having watched the full interview of former President Bill Clinton and let the readers decide. First, let’s lay down some ground rules. 1)Don’t comment if you haven’t watched the actual interview. If you’re commenting because you’ve read someone
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The most hated people on earth are those who commit sex crimes, especially if they involve children. Short of murder, there is probably no more heinous crime that could be committed. It’s not politically correct to defend those accused of such crimes. In fact, many lawyers, including myself, have been publicly criticized for doing so.
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