Last month the First Amendment Lawyers’ Association Meeting was held in New Orleans, Louisiana. What was different about this meeting than all other meetings was that this was the first meeting that Daniel Aaronson, President of the First Amendment Lawyers’…
First Amendment doctrine, is it that hard to understand?
Under First Amendment doctrine, a prior restraint is a situation where words or pictures are prevented from being spoken or published. Therefore, if there was a prior restraint against this article you would not have the opportunity to read what…
Buying Votes Investing in the true America
One of Billy Joel’s famous songs is titled “Only the Good Die Young”. Last month, during the Thanksgiving Holiday, Steve Swander passed away, having suffered from mesothelioma; a form of cancer normally associated with asbestos. Steve truly was one of…
Election 2012 Pontifications ignore Observations
We wouldn’t be columnists if we didn’t have our own slant on the 2012 elections. Unfortunately, our article comes out nearly a month after the elections and therefore, some of what we will say may be stale already, but nonetheless,…
Merit Retention Florida politics and court Justices
It has happened before in other States and now it is rearing its head in the State of Florida. What we are talking about is an attempt by either political parties, or special interest groups in the forms of PAC’s…
Judgeships The legacy that matters
Make no mistake about it, we traditionally vote for the Democratic party candidate. There have been some exceptions and we anticipate those exceptions in the future. That is not to say we are thrilled with the Democratic party but rather…
Political Speeches are a matter of perception
Every four years the First Amendment in its majestic beauty and its shameful ugliness is paraded around for all to see. It is in the form of the political speeches, political rhetoric, the political advertisements, the political pungency and…
Parallel Arguments for guns and pornography
At the time of the writing of this article the shootings in Aurora, Colorado are still fresh in our minds and only a few days old. Many are still in the hospital and families are still grieving and the…
FCC “Seven Dirty Words” S,P,F,C,CS,MF,T
We all watch television, some of us more than others. Every once in a while we hear or see something on a television show that raises our eyebrows because of the language that is used or the graphics that are…
Narrow minds make for dysfunctioning politics
For those of you who follow national and world current events, you are well aware of the situation that occurred in Greece in the last month. For those of you who do not follow world affairs, the country of Greece…