William L. Anderson

We've been through this before. What began as the Inevitable March to the Coronation of Queen Hillary is turning into Hillary's Worst Nightmare: an attractive candidate, Bernie Sanders, is runnin...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2015/07/bernie-sanders-and-socialist-unicorn.html

In my previous post on the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's gay marriage decision , I noted that U.S. Progressives are taking their victory laps, and I suspect that before they are done, tho...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2015/07/evangelical-christianity-and-its.html

It really was The Week That Was. Where do I begin? The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down all prohibition of gay marriage in the manner that it struck down state laws forbidding abortion in 1973,...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-week-that-changed-this-country-and.html

By now, anyone associated with higher education in the USA has heard about the explosive entry of newly-minted Ph.D. Saida Grundy to the Boston University faculty. Before making her Twitter accou...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2015/06/boston-university-controversy-has.html

In my recent post on how Democrats are unhinged from reality, I stuck with economics, since that party had adopted a full-blown share-the-wealth populism that, when applied before, always ends in...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2015/06/unhinged-from-reality-part-ii.html

For the past 14 years, I have worked in a place dominated by Democrats, and the most liberal ones at that. In the view of many of may colleagues, there is nothing that government cannot do as lon...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2015/05/unhinged-from-reality-part-i-democrats.html

Last year, while visiting the home place in Chattanooga, Tennessee, an old family friend asked me if I was excited by the prospect of Ben Carson running for president? I replied that given Carson...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2015/05/would-ben-carson-be-permitted-to-work.html

During his presidency, Barack Obama on many occasions has claimed that the market economy is based upon what he (and other leftists) call "trickle-down economics." A few years ago, Obama declare...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2015/05/arenas-stadiums-and-glitzy-shopping.html

I wish I could say that the recent events in Baltimore are shocking , but in the larger scheme of things, I only can wonder why it took this long for violent unrest to hit that city in the wake o...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2015/04/baltimore-is-burning-and-no-one-is.html

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would not hear the appeal of Sholom Rubashkin , sentenced to 27 years in prison in a case that involved a federal judge who was in on the planning o...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/10/scotus-judges-and-prosecutors-are.html

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent piece on how federal prosecutors and judges have so rigged the system that the only thing left to do when charged is to plead guilty, guilt or innocence ...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-federal-conviction-machine.html

A couple years ago, I wrote on what I believed was a miscarriage of justice in the federal case against Sholom Rubashkin, the CEO of a now-shuttered kosher meat facility in Iowa. The Rubashkin c...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/09/sholom-rubashkin-and-zealous-judge.html

The recent acquittal of Autumn Rae Faulkner in Elkins, West Virginia, in which a jury deliberated for only an hour, provides ironclad proof that prosecutors, state and federal, should NOT be pro...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/09/west-virginia-prosecutors-prove-once.html

This morning I spent time with a some men aged 80+ at a small roundtable discussion, and the topic dealt with the modern application of Claude-Henri de Rouvroy Saint-Simon’s dictum that “the ...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/08/on-administration-of-things-my-post.html

Radley Balko has asked me to blog on The Agitator this month. I'll be making periodic posts and also linking to this blog.

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/08/im-blogging-on-agitator-this-month_223.html

:TODAY IS ELECTION DAY in the LMJC, and while House has no opposition and will be returned to the bench, there is a choice for district attorney. While I don't know Doug Woodruff and have not fol...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/07/more-updates-on-tonya-craft-case-will.html

There are few people more likely to rush to judgment when criminal charges are made than police officers and prosecutors that regard themselves to be the avengers of wronged victims. A rush to j...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/07/suspicious-indictments-in-marion-county.html

Standing before the podium with his reading glasses perched on his nose in a Really Serious Position, former FBI Director Louis Freeh read the summary of his damning report on what happened at Pe...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/07/louis-freeh-and-sandusky-report.html

Even though at our house we don't have television reception, we do have a TV and watch videos. My kids like to watch reruns of shows like "Bones" and "Castle," and I admit to enjoying the old "Na...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/07/america-as-south-park-nation-where-life.html

In the bawdy, satirical cartoon show, South Park, one episode seemed to be something akin to life imitating art (if one calls the show "art"). Called "The Wacky Molestation Adventure ," the child...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/06/america-as-south-park-nation-where-life.html

Recent news from North Carolina that federal prosecutors have imprisoned “scores” of men who apparently broke no laws might have been shocking at one time in our nation’s history, but no m...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/06/victoria-sprouse-and-outcome-driven.html

During Tonya Craft's trial, "judge" Brian House acted according to signals given by prosecutor Chris Arnt, and that was the least of his wrongdoing. In a previous post on this farce of a "judge,"...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-campaign-signs-bring-down-outhouse.html

“Good fences make good neighbors,” – Robert Frost in “Mending Wall”  A Texas jury in 2007 believed prosecutors that claimed Hannah Overton deliberately force-fed salt into her foster...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/06/alcohol-lies-and-ambition-another-texas.html

Ten years ago, Brian Banks, a high school football star from Los Angeles with a promising future, pleaded "no contest" to raping and kidnapping classmate Wanetta Gibson in a school stairwell. De...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/05/another-big-lie-from-authorities.html

Well, "judge," I see that you have a new Facebook page, this one dedicated to your re-election. Since no one of which I know is running against you, I guess that makes your re-election about as c...

http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2012/05/open-letter-to-judge-brian-house-part.html