Crisis Management

Tired of the daily grandstanding by a “Crisis President” that wallows in third grade ad hominem invectives, gratuitous self congratulations, and thinly described projections of irresponsible personal dithering and fiddleing on other national and international leaders?  I suggest turning off the tube and picking up a copy of A.J. Baimes’ The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, […]

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Presidential Address in Time of Crisis.

Twelve score and four years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, except for migrants, women and the media. Now we are engaged in a great pandemic, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and […]

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Emolument or Emolient? Does the Constitution prohibit financial conflicts of interest by the President of the United States?

One of the timely the questions working its way through the federal district courts in Manhattan and the District of Columbia is whether Donald Trump’s apparent conflicts of interest in his and his family’s ongoing involvement in the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC and other golf course and real estate development ventures implicates the […]

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