Here is my Facebook post regarding the New Zealand shooter’s manifesto that got taken down for violating Facebook’s Community Standards:

I’ve read at least a dozen articles that reference the New Zealand shooter’s manifesto.  They all fo…

Doug Bandow’s latest essay on the United States Postal Service is relevant to my blog post on the same in December. 

In November, I blogged about the impact on mineral producers in Osage County, Oklahoma from a new mandate issued by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, requiring an environmental assessment as a precondition to any future drilling activity.  I made men…

“You know, a person’s mailbox is federal property, and it is against the law for anyone other than a postal carrier to put anything in it.” Have you ever heard that and wondered whether it is true, or just an urban myth?  The first time I r…

According to Forbes, the U.S. has hiked the fee to renounce U.S. citizenship 422%, so voting with your feet is becoming more difficult.  This is how the government responds to a record number of citizens leaving for greener pastures — all st…

A North Carolina court discovered such a thing in Rothrock v. Cooke (N.C. Super. Ct. June 11, 2014).  Mrs. Rothrock had sued her husband’s paramour, Miss Cooke, for Alienation of Affection and Criminal Conversation.  Underlying these alli…

“Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”  That is the retort frequently given by the arresting officer, prosecutor, or judge to the cry of a citizen surprised by an obscure law.  In a decision as recent as 2008, the Oklahoma Supreme Court offered…

In January, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma released its ruling in Bishop v. United States, declaring Oklahoma’s legal definition of marriage to be unconstitutional.  As part of his constitutional analysis, J…

This is an update to this earlier post about a foreclosed property I was interested in bidding on at sheriff’s sale.  The bank’s appraisers valued it at $146,000 at the time of the sheriff’s sale.  Afterwards, it was listed for sale at $121,9…

Last Friday, in Derek Kitchen, et al. v. Gary R. Herbert, et al., a federal judge ruled that Utah’s constitutional amendment banning state recognition of same-sex “marriage” is unconstitutional.  “The court hereby declares that Amendment…

It seems that everyone with a blog has a tale about their failed attempt to sign up on-line for Obamacare.  My own tale is already a month old and is no different from all the others, but I’m starting to feel like there is a noticeable void i…

I was recently in the District Court of Nowata County for a civil motion docket.  Intermixed with the civil matters were several criminal plea hearings.  One of them was for a defendant charged with possession of a controlled substance and d…

In yesterday’s post, I asserted that Fannie Mae lacks the authority to exempt itself from state disclosure laws. After doing additional research, I now conclude . . . that I was right.

A federal district court judge in Pennsylvania recently ruled…

In a previous post, I described my own encounter with the heavy-handed and self-defeating procedures utilized by Fannie Mae to unload its REO/foreclosed properties.  I quoted the following provision from the contract addendum that Fannie Mae asks…