Carl T. Bogus is Professor of Law at Roger Williams University.
Jun 08,2013
Q. Why doesn’t George R.R. Martin use Twitter? A. Because he killed off all 140 characters. Reading this excellent piece (from which I've copped the joke) by...
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Here’s a concise legal briefing that may be helpful to understanding the so-called Associated Press scandal. Do journalists have a constitutional privilege that protects them from criminal investigations seeking...
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The Washington Post op-ed page today has dueling columns related to the so-called Benghazi scandal – one by Ruth Marcus (here); the other by Charles...
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“My thinking was when we beat them in 2012 that might break the fever, and it’s not quite broken yet,” President Obama remarked at a...
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Rats in their maze. They are the giant food conglomerates: Kraft, General Mills, Post, Kellogg, PepsiCo, Campbell Soup, and others. We are the rats. I’ve just...
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Today I checked the websites of leading gun control organizations, including the Violence Policy Center, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the Law Center to Prevent Violence,...
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Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, has written a wonderful 16-page description of Edmund Burke’s thinking, entitled Burke Between Liberty and Tradition....
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At least 83% of Americans favor universal background checks for gun purchases. At most, 15% oppose them. According to one survey, even 75% of NRA...
More >>Mar 24,2013
Don't mourn the political demise of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons bill. Here’s why. The philosophy behind an assault weapons ban is that there are two kinds...
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