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DOBBS V. JACKSON for Dummies (Part 4 of 5: "Stare Decisis")

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Hello friends, and welcome back .  I pretty much stopped writing since January. When your precious, charming, lovely, smart, witty daughter gets married and buys a house, you had better be there to help them make transition, or you have no purpose in life. I also got a part-time job at my true habitat, a local municipal golf course, so 2023 has been a bad year for my blogging. Still, in the past year, I have managed to cross off a couple of items on my musical bucket list, and learned the guitar solos to Hotel California and Kid Charlemagne .  Maybe it's time to start posting videos? Our legal journey can be summarized, so far, as follows: the Dobbs decision is a resultant of two primary vectors. These vectors are moral force and social experience .  Applied through Reason during the course of Time, our common law system arrived in 2022 at a place where logic could lead, where apolitical imperatives could survive, a place where -- after 50 years in the jurisprudenti...

Varieties of Durham (Part 1 of 2)

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We are All Boat People Start here . You could look it up, but I'm here so you don't have to.  The word "Durham" should invoke more than the surname of the DOJ Special Counsel whose work triggers both sides of the political echo chamber.   True, from a corporate mass media perspective, that's the first bell rung when you hear a reference to Durham.  Etymologically, the combination of Olde English " dun " (hill) and  Scandinavian " holmr " (city) was adopted by 1st century Normans.  City on a hill? Hmm. They eventually stopped adding the letter -r- because, the Anglo-French quite often lost or combined words containing the letters -l- , -n- , and -r- .  They just couldn't properly pronounce " dunholmr ." Geographically, there are two primary locations called Durham. One Durham is a city and county bordering the North Sea in England (pop. ~511,000). The other Durham is a city located northwest of Raleigh, North Carolina. Durham, NC ...