http://blog.ttrottlaw.com Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:28:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.ttrottlaw.com/?p=146 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 ... http://blog.ttrottlaw.com/?p=142 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 ... http://blog.ttrottlaw.com/?p=140 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 ... http://blog.ttrottlaw.com/?p=138 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 ... http://blog.ttrottlaw.com/?p=136 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 ... http://blog.ttrottlaw.com/?p=132 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 ... http://blog.ttrottlaw.com/?p=126 Whatever one may think of America's love-hate relationship with alcoholic beverages, excessive drinking among college age people can be a problem. I see it right here in West Chester. It's not just the fact of the drinking. It is often what results: DUI, domestic abuse, date rape, burglary, trespassing. Not ... http://blog.ttrottlaw.com/?p=123 I was sitting watching CNN tonight when I saw a fascinating statistic. In 2001, Afghanistan produced 12% of the world's poppy crop. The poppy, as we all know, is the lovely flower that produces the key ingredient in heroin, opium. Today, our allies in the "war on terror" produce 93% ... http://blog.ttrottlaw.com/?p=108 Tom Ridge, former governor of Pennsylvania, and erstwhile Director of Homeland Security (oh how I hate that name) admits the technicolor threat index was politically motivated. In a soon to be released book (doesn't that figure), Ridge states that President Bush's political operatives wanted the threat index raised just before the ... http://blog.ttrottlaw.com/?p=106