About seventy percent of Americans do not have a will. Many procrastinate. They believe they do not have enough assets or they simply do not want to consider their own mortality. If someone has not written a will, one has been written for them. State law determines what happens to the property of someone who […]
Archives for January 2013
Florida Misdemeanor Law
January 26, 2013 by
While less serious than felonies, a Florida misdemeanor arrest and guilty finding leads to criminal records with the FBI and state police. Florida misdemeanors carry a maximum punishment of a fine and up to one year in jail. Crimes for which a person may be punished by more than one year in jail or in […]
Affirmative Defenses to Criminal Charges: Self-Defense, Necessity, Entrapment, Insanity & Intoxication
January 25, 2013 by
In some criminal cases the defendant admits committing a criminal act. A legal excuse or justification may exist. This is an affirmative defense. For a person to be guilty of a crime, there are two things that must exist. The person must perform an action that is prohibited by law, and do so with an […]
Driving With a Suspended License in Illinois
January 23, 2013 by
The State of Illinois can suspend or revoke a person’s driving privileges for 36 reasons. Over 500,000 people in Illinois are unable to legally drive. Driving[1] with a suspended or revoked license (DWLS) in Illinois[2] is a serious matter. It is a criminal offense. Many people assume getting a ticket for driving while suspended is no different than any […]
Illinois Misdemeanor Law
January 20, 2013 by
While the penalties are less serious than felonies, a misdemeanor arrest and guilty finding leads to criminal records with the FBI and state police. Illinois misdemeanors carry a maximum punishment of a fine and incarceration of up to 364 days in jail. Crimes for which a person may be punished by more than one year in jail […]
The Negro and the Constitution by Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 20, 2013 by
The oratory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. moved people to action to address the wrongs of racial discrimination. He is best known for his “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963, given at the Lincoln Memorial before an estimated audience of 250,000 and millions more on television and radio in a exemplary […]
First Amendment to the Constitution: Freedom of Religion
January 18, 2013 by
Freedom of Religion is the first of our natural rights acknowledged in the First Amendment and limits government’s power to establish an official religion or interfere with a citizen’s exercise of religion. This is a recognition of freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. The first ten amendments to the US Constitution are referred to […]
How to Create a Crisis and Steal a Nation: Part Three
January 10, 2013 by
This series begins by outlining the concepts of the Cloward-Piven Strategy of creating a crisis and then using that crisis to advance a political agenda and how the theories of Cloward-Piven built upon the radical teachings of Saul Alinsky. The second installment provides a real life example of the technique at work in Kansas City […]
The Lithuanian Legend of the Iron Wolf and the Fall of the Soviet Union
January 3, 2013 by
A legend surrounds the founding of Vilnius, the present day capital of Lithuania. It is The Legend of the Iron Wolf. The legend begins with a hunting trip undertaken by the Grand Duke of Lithuania,[1] Gediminas to the holy woods in the Valley of Sventaragis around the year 1323. Gediminas was joined by the nobles of […]
Primer on Economic Systems and Societal Organization
There are words used to describe systems of government and economic approaches to organizing societies. In public discussions the differences are often lost and terms of government are used interchangeably with terms of economics. Though a given approach to organizing government may lend itself to adopting a given economic system, government and economics are not […]