
Dan was graduated from Yale University in 1963 and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1966. He practiced law in Washington, D.C., retiring in 1996 to sail with his wife in the Caribbean. They settled in a rural area in Panama in 2001. Dan spends most of his time training and riding horses and trying to write a bit. In the interest of full disclosure, he voted in 2008 for Senator McCain and Governor Palin, there being no other viable option.
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The California Supreme Court Properly Decided the Case Involving Homosexual Marriage
The recent California Decision on homosexual marriage has little to do with homosexual marriage.
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Further Reflections on the Nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court
Two Second Circuit decisions recently noted in blogs do not suggest that Judge Sotomajor should not be confirmed.
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The Envelope, Please...The Supreme Court Nominee is...Good Grief!
Judge Sotomayor appears to be a viable nominee to the Supreme Court.
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Should Appointment to the Supreme Court Hinge on Empathy?
Experience as a competent appellate court judge should trump all else in the selection of a Supreme Court justice.
54
Excessive Pride Goes Before a Fall
To proclaim moral superiority when the consequence is suicide is not very clever.
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Legal Analysis Should Not be a Partisan Plaything.
Partisan gamesmanship can easily backfire. That is likely to happen in the highly emotional "torture" debates.
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The Pirates of Somalia, Part II
The U.S. Navy finally did the right thing, rescuing the captain of the hijacked ship and killing three pirates.
51
Channeling Some Dead White Males
What would two lamentably deceased sages say about Life, the Universe and Everything as we now think we know them?
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The Audacity of Sensitive Silence
Voluntary albeit sensitive silence can be no less insidious than forced silence.
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A Rant: Warning Labels Are Not Enough, But They Might Help
Lazarus-like, the World will rise from its troubles fully healed, despite our Masters. Please ignore the side effects.
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