Scholar? Back it up…
Dear Editor, In this brave new era of rampant pseudo intellectualism, we must be continually weary of anyone proclaiming to be a scholar, especially a constitutional scholar.
Maryland Matt back on the chopping block
Dear Editor, I see that Maryland Matt Rosendale is running for Congress for the third time. I know he stated, I believe in one of his campaigns for Congress, that he was proud to be from a military family.
Term limitation unfavored by career politics
Dear Editor, I am very familiar with the lone individual who is responsible for not allowing state legislatures to impose term limits on members of the U.S Congress. This individual was my constitutional law professor while I was in law school in the school year of 1985 to 1986.
Christianity and original sin
Dear Editor, Over 15 years ago my wife Sherry and I were living back in California for a while. We went to a presentation on the Muslim religion put on by one of the local catholic parishes. An individual who was identified as an Imam from one of the local Muslim congregations spoke to us. […]
Requiring popular vote precedence is unconstitutional
Dear Editor, Recently a number of state legislatures have passed legislation that amounts to an end run around the U.S. Constitution or at least around the electoral college that is found within the constitution.
Medical economic burdens
Dear Editor, In my medical specialty most of the patients that find their way to our offices do so because of pain complaints. Most of that pain is acute but some of it could be characterized as chronic. When a medical seminar in Billings concerning the latest available treatments for chronic pain was available, I […]
Miranda warnings protect government officials
Dear Editor, Recently, I was asked what I meant by the term “case law”. Actually, it is another way of saying judge made law. More specifically it is law made by appellate court justices. One of the most well-known types of case law was made in the Miranda case which originated in Arizona in the […]
There is really no difference between relativism and today’s progressive thinking.
Dear Editor: In just the first hours in law school a student is told that his goal in law school is to learn to think like a lawyer. Another thing learned early on in law school is that there are no wrong answers but there are simply good arguments to prove or disprove a given […]
Time for Zinke to tender his resignation?
Dear Editor: During the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Montana, I heard general Flynn, an Obama-era officer, enthusiastically endorsing the one I call the flying sergeant, Troy Downing for U.S. Senate, on a Billings radio station. I may have promoted him by calling him a sergeant. As one who flew in combat in Vietnam, […]
These parents can start by quitting smoking themselves
Dear Editor: I became licensed to prescribe opioids over 40 years ago. When I first began performing surgery 40 years ago many of my colleagues routinely prescribed aspirin and Tylenol combined with an opioid after most of their surgical procedures. In my military residency training, we were encouraged to try to avoid these types of […]