Author: Big Eye Sees

The Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953 had a significant influence on world economics that apparently remains to this day in the American state of California. Born in Georgia, part of the Russian Empire, his father was a shoemaker and his mother a house cleaner. Stalin was educated to […]

Posts Not really – they are a panel of your fellow citizens who come to work with their own life’s experiences and biases and make rulings by consensus. That is why you have 5-4 rulings occasionally and why a Justice writes a majority opinion and a Justice representing the members whose opinions differ from the […]

Dishonest politicians (many of whom are lawyers), naïve students, ignorant citizens, illegal immigrants and others frequently express reverence for America being a country operating under ‘the rule of law’.  What is ‘the rule of law’? “Rule of law is a principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are accountable to laws that are: Publicly promulgated. Equally enforced. Independently […]

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines ‘insurrection’ as the act or an instance of revolting especially violently against civil or political authority or against an established government.   The word is frequently in the news these days in connection with ‘protests’ in Washington in January of 2022.  Protest is not considered ‘insurrection’. Protests are rampant in the […]

Sonoma County Deputy Sheriff Joseph Ricks supplemented his base salary of $115,000 with a prodigious $240,000 in overtime pay in 2022. Throw in the pension and medical benefits he received from the county, as well as a few other smaller forms of compensation, and Ricks made close to $465,000 in his public job that year. […]

Due in part to cable documentaries, the public has come to see many creatures as having almost human personalities.  In fact, the intelligence of many forms of wildlife approaches that of human beings as well which gives them added appeal. A prime example the orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale. An apex predator of the […]