What do you want from the people you elect to public office? Honesty? Candor? Fairness? Intelligence? Independent thinking? To listen to you, the people who voted them into office? If only things were that simple. The problem is the noise. At least in Florida, legislators have a great many […]
Category: Miscellaneous
In days of old when knights were bold and gentlemen believed in honor… In those days of old, if you were to wrong me and failed to pay proper recompense, we dueled…often to the death. Today, in our democracy, we have access to the courts for redress of our differences […]
Ever been cancelled by your insurance company; even though you reported no losses for years, maybe decades? The Florida Senate and the Florida House are fast tracking a bill relating to property insurance in Florida. And, that sounds good on its face, but is it good for homeowners? Easy answer […]
Imagine you own a home – free and clear—no mortgage, no liens, it is all yours. Imagine you are advised that a bank has shown up at your property to foreclose on “their” mortgage and take possession of your property. Just a mistake, right? You talk to the company, they […]
If you and I enter into a contract and one of us believes the other has defaulted under the contract, the party believing they have been wronged can file a lawsuit and ask the Court for a solution to their cause(s) of action. That is a right guaranteed in the […]
April 9, 2011 is an important date and an important event will take place at the Meyer Amphitheatre in Palm Beach County. It’s called the “SleepOut” and it is a symbolic reminder of the phrase: “But, for the grace of God, go I”. Imagine that you have no bed […]
It was a Democrat who made “court packing” a scheme, a political move. And, it was done by an American president I confess to admiring for a great many reasons; his plan to pack the US Supreme Court with only justices who would see things his way, is not one […]
Visions of white clapboard houses with bright red barns have been a staple of Americans’ visions of farming for centuries. The farmer diligently working in his fields to produce food and material for the nation’s bread basket was a worthy subject of photos, paintings and stories throughout the last couple […]
I am familiar with Shakespeare’s quote from Henry VI, “The first thing we must do is kill all the lawyers.” Although, one should note, the quote is often used to malign attorneys when Shakespeare actually meant it as a compliment – the characters in his play were planning a revolution […]
The Food & Drug Administration issued a press release on March 4, 2011 to alert expectant mothers to complications of taking Topamax. The FDA indicates that a higher than acceptable number of infants were born with a condition called cleft lip and palate; when the mothers were taking Topamax (Topiramate). […]
