Tag Archives: politics
Law for Laymen: #1 Why We Have Laws
NTI is pleased to present this post, the first installment in our new “Law for Laymen” series. Law for Laymen will be a continuing series that attempts to make the law more accessible for non-lawyers or those trying to become lawyers who have just begun their journey through law school. Most importantly, this series will […]
Guest Post: Sean Hannity and the War with Iran
NTI is pleased to present the second post in our Guest Poster series. Our first guest poster was Zubin Doshi. Well he’s back, and this time he’s talking about Sean Hannity and his version of “news journalism.” Comments are always welcome. Enjoy! Sean Hannity and the War with Iran ~ by ZUBIN DOSHI I have […]
Last Night’s Oscars Were So Excruciating They Make Me Wonder If Torture Is Ever Permissible
Everybody’s talking about last night’s Oscar awards and that makes me want to talk about torture. Just kidding, Seth McFarlane did a great job and actually made the Oscars enjoyable for the first time in a long time. Seriously though, today I’d like to talk about Zero Dark Thirty, how it has once again revived […]
Setting the Stage: Looking for those who affirmatively act
This came up recently with friends with respect to college admissions. Topics like affirmative action have a way of leading to heated debates and impassioned advocacy. Forget the same old arguments about why colleges should or should not practice affirmative action. I am just offering a new way we can use it to everyone’s advantage. […]
First post
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches […]
What to do when you get your jury duty notice, and why our jury system remains valuable.
While wandering the blog-o-sphere the other day, I came across a post from a distressed blogger who had, apparently, received a much uninvited jury duty notice. The author of this particular post was soliciting advice on whether and/or how to get out of jury duty. I didn’t respond, but if I had, here’s what I […]
The Credit Nightmare continues: 1 in 5 Americans has an error on his or her credit report
The Problem. If you watched 60 Minutes tonight, you heard the disturbing news that an eight-year investigation by the Federal Trade Commission has revealed that twenty percent of Americans have an error on their credit report, and ten percent have a significant error that negatively affects their credit report. What’s worse? The report goes on to detail […]
Bridgeport Police Beatings not black and white, but instead reflect a fundamental societal problem
Like many, I was shocked by the recent CT Post report of a new video depicting the brutal beating of Orlando Lopez-Soto of Bridgeport, Connecticut, by the police in Beardsley Park in 2011. Atrocious conduct such as this is unequivocally unacceptable, should be condemned and we should both demand and expect not only that the […]
Daniel P. Scholfield
Prerna Rao
A New Type of Ink 