President Obama delivered the commencement address to the graduating class at Notre Dame University. I did not hear his speech, but as I walked by one of the television rooms I saw his image on the screen. As he was speaking, I thought for a moment about a commencement speech that a former Chief Justice [...]
At 3:00 this morning, as I waited for officers to walk by my cubicle for a morning census count, I listened to an NPR broadcast reporting on Pesident Obama’s mandate to cut hundreds of millions in wasteful spending from the U.S. budget. That report inspired me to write a few blogs on the need for [...]
Many of the men with whom I serve time at Taft Camp seem like children on the days leading up to Christmas. They are giddy with anticipation for the prison reform legislation that they feel certain is about to pass. The talk focuses on bills the Congress is about to introduce that will provide more [...]
President Obama made another significant break from the policies of the previous Bush administration when he signed an order authorizing federal funding for stem-cell research. The reports that I saw on CNN indicated that President Obama would not allow the specious value of politics to interfere with the objective findings of science. We have seen [...]
