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The Cult of the Result: Bump Stocks and Mifepristone. Posted by Ed Folsom, June 21, 2024. Last week, the Supreme Court issued opinions in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and Garland v. Cargill. In Alliance, the Court reversed a … Read More
The very political New York prosecution of Donald Trump. Posted by Ed Folsom, June 18, 2024. Ever since Donald Trump was convicted in New York State court, on May 30, his political enemies have struggled mightily to convince the … Read More
The “Adults in the Room” of Climate Change are Freaking the Kids Out. Posted by Ed Folsom, May 28, 2024. According to a recent Portland Press Herald story, Colby College ran a survey of Maine Medical Association members in 2020 … Read More
The Very Old Lineage of Wokeist Tactics. Posted by Ed Folsom, May 16, 2024. The left never changes its core themes and language. I stumbled across the pro-communist passages quoted below recently, taken from a 1954 report of the Senate … Read More
Twitter’s Speech Police Make It Personal. Posted by Ed Folsom, April 28, 2024. Several days ago, during the ongoing anti-Israel, anti-Jew, pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas rallies across the country, I happened across an anti-Israel Tweet on Twitter. In substance, it stated that … Read More
It’s Not the Guns. Posted by Ed Folsom, April 15, 2024. On Saturday, a madman went on a stabbing spree in an Australian shopping mall, killing five women and a man before being shot dead by a police officer. Eight … Read More
Interim Report on Lewiston Shooting Pierces Sagadahoc S.O. Fog. Posted by Ed Folsom, March 26, 2024. Independent Commission Report Pierces the Sagadahoc S.O. Fog. A little over a week ago, on March 15, 2024, the Independent Commission to Investigate the … Read More
Maine’s Crime Rate & Criminal Cases Drop, Court Backlogs & MCILS Cases Rise. Posted by Ed Folsom, March 5, 2024. As criminal case filings declined, court backlogs grew. As discussed in my last post, Maine’s courts are experiencing a large … Read More
Why Are So Few Lawyers Willing to Work for the MCILS? Posted by Ed Folsom, March 3, 2024. Judge Rejects Latest Proposed ACLU/MCILS Settlement. On Wednesday, February 28, 2024, Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy rejected the second proposed settlement agreement … Read More
Update on Thought Police Here and Abroad. Posted by Ed Folsom, February 22, 2024. Are you aware of how much our government polices online speech, suppressing what it dislikes and boosting speech that furthers its narratives? The practice is pervasive. … Read More
