Judges and National Security – The Supervision of Counter Terrorism
Last week I attended the 4th Annual Meeting of the American College of Business Court Judges in Chicago along with…
Author: Steven Platt
The Hague works for Peace, Security and Justice Across the Globe
For one week this past September 2008, I and one other Maryland Judge, Judge Cathy Hollenberg Serrette, by coincidence also…
Choose Your President and His Advisers Carefully
The improved economic outlook that I hoped for in my last column clearly has not come and in fact is…
Campaign’s and Candidates’ Messages Clash
The events of the past two weeks have exposed to an even greater extent than before how the manner in…
Economic Crisis Necessitates Leadership Which Rises Above Mistrust and Anger of Constituents
As I write this column, the Congress of the United States in its hopefully tentative lack of collective wisdom (at…
The Debate on Economic Issues Takes Shape
I noted in my last two columns that unfortunately the discussion and debate on global and domestic economic issues which…
McCain Opts out of Meaningful Debate on Global and Domestic Economic Issues
The Editor of the Daily Record assigned the headline to my last column of “If it ever was, Reaganomics is no…
The Collapse of the Deregulated Economy
Whether you believe that we have unknowingly acquiesced in “The Great Risk Shift” described by Yale Political Science Professor Jacob…
Is this a “Change Election”?
Columnist Robert J. Samuelson recently described as one of our “fondest political myths” that elections allow us to collectively settle…
The D.C. Gun Ban and The Founding Fathers – Did They Care?
Now that the nominations of this country’s two major political parties have been determined, the policy debate may begin in…