Ellis Washington

Is Giuliani a dime-store Dewey?
Saturday, November 17, 2007 by Ellis Washington -- [Rudy Giuliani] a thrice-married, ex-mayor of New York whose career [43% approval rating] was on life-support, but for 9/11. ~ Ellis Washington, "Neville Chamberlain's revenge ...

Obsolete lawyers and IEDs
Saturday, November 10, 2007 by Ellis Washington -- The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. ~ Shakespeare, "Henry VI" (Part II) Desperate times calls for desperate measures. We as Americans may not always understand or agree with such tactics ...

Judges gone wild
Saturday, November 03, 2007 by Ellis Washington -- There was in a city a judge, which feared not God neither regarded man. ~ Saint Luke The Constitution isn't a suicide pact. ~ Justice Robert H. Jackson In our modern, post-Christian, ...

California burning
Saturday, October 27, 2007 by Ellis Washington -- While California burns down, Harry Reid, from D.C. town, Blames global warming, Cries, "It's so alarming!" But Rush proved Reid's a clown. ~ Paul (a poet and reader of my WND column) ...

Clarence Thomas' 'My Grandfather's Son'
Saturday, October 20, 2007 by Ellis Washington -- The mob I now faced carried no ropes or guns. Its weapons were smooth-tongued lies spoken into microphones and printed on the front pages of America's newpapers. It no longer sought to break the bodies of its victims. Instead, it devas ...

Our leftist propaganda factories
Saturday, October 13, 2007 by Ellis Washington -- A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house. ~ St. Matthew 13:57 This column is about truth vs. expediency; rigor vs. regression; trust busting vs. academic monopoly, s ...

Is a college degree required for success?
Saturday, October 06, 2007 by Ellis Washington -- Professors seemed to have only two things in common: they were personally ambitious, and they had renounced religion. ~ Paul C. Vitz, Ph.D. (Lecture notes delivered at Columbia University on the psychology of atheism) ...

Queen Oprah and her anointed squire
Saturday, September 29, 2007 by Ellis Washington -- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. ~ Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859) The only difference between a good person and a bad person is which way they turn their passions. ~ ...

Symposium: Freud's legacy – does medication = healing?
Saturday, September 22, 2007 by Ellis Washington -- I swear ... to please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug or give advice which may cause his death. ~ Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) Hippocratic Oath for medical doctors

The Osama bin Laden Equal Protection Act
Saturday, September 15, 2007 by Ellis Washington -- There's always a conflict of interest when people who don't really like America are called upon to defend it. ~ Ann Coulter I have never respected former President Jimmy Carter. I thought he was a dis ...

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Ellis Washington, former editor at The Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute, is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including "The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law" (2002). See his law review article "Reply to Judge Richard Posner." Washington has just completed the manuscript to his latest book, "The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust" (2007).


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