Tim Trott’s Blog

President Obama has just concluded his speech on the end of combat operations in Iraq. As we now turn to the joy of the welcoming home our service men and women, let us not forget those who brought us into this illegal war.
Others have made the case more eloquently than I. The Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld [...]

There has been much ado, lately,  about Muslims and political office. Much of this pointless controversy is being fed by the supposedly strict constructionist radical right who believe the nation should be free and safe for all…as long as they are White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
Now I admit to being something of a Constitutional nerd. I hand [...]

So the feds charged Blago with 24 counts of criminal violations. They got a hung jury on 23 counts, and a conviction on one. What does all this mean?
In a criminal case, a jury must render a unanimous verdict for either acquittal or conviction. When a jury cannot reach a unanimous verdict, the result is [...]

So there was delightfully friendly snowball fight in DC. Why not? Here we are in the midst of the Holiday Season. It snows. It’s the natural thing to do. A snowball hits a red Hummer. A man gets out brandishing a gun. That’s right. A gun. It turns out this fellow is a DC detective.  [...]

I have been patient. So too, I am afraid, are many people who awaited our new President’s progressive leadership. We’re still waiting.
Health care. During the campaign the President was a proponent of universal health care. Not anymore. The President offered no plan of his own, leaving it to that impotent debating society known also as [...]

John Scher, that friendly “video professor” guy on TV who implores you to, “Try my product,” for only the cost of shipping appears to have quite a scheme going. Here’s the deal. When you think you order one of his computer training CD’s for what you think is only the cost of shipping, you get [...]

Smarter, more articulate persons than I are writing about the passing of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. They are writing and speaking about the great work he did and the personal demons he battled. So I shall leave that commentary to others. As to his legacy, historians have much to ponder as they begin to put [...]

Clarence Thomas notwithstanding, the United States Supreme Court stood up for the Fourth Amendment, and in particular, the rights of children in school. It also struck a blow against overzealous school administrators who all too often think themselves an arm of the police department. In an 8-1 vote, the court held that a strip search [...]