Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer BLOG
The Political “Left”‘s Antifascist Con, Among Others. Posted by Ed Folsom July 28, 2023 How have the politics of individualism come to be labeled “far-right” while the statist collectivism of the self-identified “left” is sold to us as “anti-fascist”? Does … Read More
Progressivism’s Cognitive Infrastructure Police Scrub the Public Square. Posted by Ed Folsom, July 8, 2023. On July 4th, in Missouri v. Biden, a federal judge issued a ruling that enjoins certain U.S. Government administrative agencies and Biden administrative officials from … Read More
Now RFK, Jr., is a Threat to Democracy Too? Posted by Ed Folsom, June 27, 2023. According to the latest-Party-line-thing machinery, RFK, Jr., is now a “threat to democracy.” My local newspaper, the Maine Sunday Telegram, recently picked up an … Read More
Posted by Ed Folsom January 13, 2023. Now Also on Substack. I’ve started putting my posts up on Substack, here. Who knows? I might eventually have to migrate there.
Maine Legislature Proceeds With Hearsay Exception For Personal Circumstances. Posted by Ed Folsom June 5, 2023 This is a follow-up to my previous post (here) regarding Maine LD 765 (2023), formerly titled “An Act to Permit Recordings of a Protected … Read More
Auto-totalitarian Signs. Posted by Ed Folsom, June 2, 2023. I continue to be intrigued by Vaclav Havel’s essay, The Power of the Powerless. Havel wrote it from the belly of the socialist beast that was 1978 Czechoslovakia, then a satellite … Read More
Asylum Seekers Arriving In Portland at Astronomical Pop-Based Rate. Posted by Ed Folsom, May 23, 2023 The magnificence of nonchalant understatement in the following passage in today’s Portland Press Herald about blew me away: “More than a quarter-million people filed … Read More
Disparate Impact: Ironclad Proof of Systemic Misandry? Posted by Ed Folsom, April 25, 2023. Have you noticed the never-ending search in the public discourse for disparate outcomes as automatic, ironclad proof of systemic injustice at work? For instance, fairly early … Read More
To Forgive is Divine. To Forget Would be Abject Stupidity. Posted by Ed Folsom, April 23, 2023. On December 22, 2022, a series of news headlines all told us essentially the same thing: U.S. life expectancy dropped again in 2021 … Read More
Who, Whom? January 6 and the undifferentiated breadth of Sarbanes-Oxley. Posted by Ed Folsom, April 14, 2023. In 2002, the U.S. Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley bill. The bill was intended to improve auditing practices and the public disclosure of financial … Read More
