Good Advice From Governor Bone

I’ve been reading the book:
Bone, Scott C. 1925. Alaska, its past, present, future. [Juneau, Alaska?]: Issued by the Governor’s Office.
Scott C. Bone was the 10th Governor of the Territory of Alaska. As he was leaving office in 1925, he had a small book of his articles and speeches printed. There is a lot of interesting [...]

Filter Sarah Palin Through Galatians 5

Now that Sarah Palin is a private citizen, I can now criticize her without breaking my rule of not criticizing my state’s elected officials.  I am also rescinding the “no comments” policy about Palin. If you want to talk about her here, assuming she’s relevant to the conversation, go ahead.
For the record, I was a [...]

Missing Piece of OH Abortion Bill

Lately, Ohio House Bill 252 has been making news.  This is the bill, if passed and upheld by the courts, that would prohibit a woman from having an abortion unless she has the written consent of the biological father. The consent requirement is waived in cases of rape or incest.
In principle, I’m sympathetic to this [...]

If You Knew Him Like I Did

If you think law review articles are dull,  think again. Law review articles cover the gamut of human experience. This seems to be especially true of articles from the Alaska Law Review. A quick glance through current and back issues pulled up these intriguing titles:
“If You Knew Him Like I Did, You’d Have Shot Him, [...]

Holy Dissent: Biblical antigovernment activity

Recently I got an e-mail from someone who had seen my August 2005 piece “Holy Dissent” which argued against the idea, popular at the time, that we owed unconditional obedience to the President. I searched my blog to refresh my memory of the piece only to find it wasn’t there. It was actually written in [...]

If You Discuss Health Bill Use Actual Text

I expect to see a lot of commentary on what is and is not in the recently introduced House health care bill. HR 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Whether you’re for it or against in whole or in part, my hope is that you will cite the actual text of the bill [...]

Infrared Daniel and Louise

Infrared Daniel and Louise
Originally uploaded by AlaskanLibrarian

The Adler Planetarium in Chicago has an infrared camera plus a large monitor that displays the camera’s image. So i couldn’t resist the urge to snap our picture in a different part of the spectrum. My camera is blue because it is the same temperature as the room. Our [...]

Greetings from Madison / Have Some Patience

I’m writing this blog from my sister-in-law’s laptop in Madison, Wisconsin. I just arrivived a few hours ago, but I’ve really loved what I’ve seen of Madison so far. It’s also a welcome change of pace from downtown Chicago, where I was attending the 2009 ALA Annual Conference. I’ll have more to say about that [...]

History Abuse: Tony Blankley

Note: This post was written on July 5th and being automatically posted by WordPress. If I don’t mention a major happening in Iran since then, that’s why. As this as entry is being posted, I’m currently winging my way to the ALA conference in Chicago where I hope to be blogging from if I have [...]

Real Sovereignty for Iraq, at Last

As far as I can tell from news reports, the United States has kept its word in following the US-Iraqi Status of Forces Agreement and has pulled out of Iraqi cities as of June 30th except for a few instances where the government of Iraq asked them to stay. Again, from public reports, the requests [...]