Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

Der Furor made a lot of promises to a lot of different constituencies while clawing his way back to the presidency. If history is any judge,...

In reviewing the story of the Alabama supreme court decision on the status of embryos being stored for in-vitro fertilization (IFV) treatmen...

The US Code has 51 Titles and tens of thousands of pages of laws, but it seems there's always a need for yet another one. How often have...

One of the more bizarre arguments being made on behalf of Der Furor by his lawyers, acolytes, and sycophants in an attempt to shield him fro...

There has been a great deal of discussion over the last year or two about reforming the Supreme Court. Exactly what that means and how it mi...

* Update: I wrote this post several days ago. Yesterday, this story appeared on CNN:  Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars after First Fatal Crash ...

If you are concerned about the hopeless gridlock in Washington (and you should be), you should also be interested in the announcement from ...

The untimely death* of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has had the collateral effect of tremendously enlarging the diameter of the rin...

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that it puts all sorts of information at your fingertips that you never knew was there....

I know I shouldn't just automatically accept the 7,000-line-super-fine-print user agreements that most of us just click through when we...

As we gear up for another year of the useless name-calling and finger-pointing that has replaced good government at the national level, the...

This morning at 10 o'clock the Supreme Court is expected to render its decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and ...

As we've seen, Article I of the Constitution describes the Legislative Branch, and Article II the Executive Branch. Today, Dear Readers...

If you thought you just felt the earth shake, you were probably right. I have found something upon which I agree ... at least, in part ... ...

Well, that's not exactly how they said it, but it sounds better my way. In an 8 to 1 decision handed down yesterday (Justice Alito dis...

Stop the presses!! Iran is pissed off!! According to this story reported on CNN the other day, the Navy's designation of a particular ...

There was a fascinating article in yesterday's Washington Post that is worth spending a few minutes to read and ponder: One Nation, Unde...

Today is December 5th: the 77th anniversary of the date on which Prohibition was repealed by the 21st Amendment to the Constitution (which ...