23 JANUARY 2022
I work at a law firm that focuses primarily on litigation. From time to time, I hear someone say, “we know” a fact to be true “but can we prove it?” Knowing something to be true is one thing. Translating that into admissible proof in court —…
13 JANUARY 2022
In the now infamous words of Peter Navarro, the Green Bay Sweep, a scheme that had “over 100 congressmen committed to it,” could have succeeded and, he insists, without violence. Goddamned insurrectionists foiled what was otherwise “a perfect plan.” Huddling with Bannon and others, Navarro, a Harvard…
31 DECEMBER 2021
Sergeant Ficarra gave everyone in our sophomore ROTC class a “C” after some overly sensitive kid ratted him out for having barked a variety of conjugations with fuck as their root.
Short of that, a professor in law school gave me my most disappointing grade. …
18 DECEMBER 2021
Self-Portrait, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 48", Richard J Van Wagoner, Circa 1962, Courtesy of Van Wagoner Family Trust**
I post something in remembrance of my father this time of year. He died Christmas day 2013.
Included here are several bold paintings of his with lay commentary…
12 DECEMBER 2021
A “predicate to liberal constitutional government is the freedom of a citizen from government compulsion to testify against himself. . . . It may suit the purposes of despotic power; but it cannot abide the pure atmosphere of political liberty and personal freedom.”
A criminal defendant has…
05 DECEMBER 2021
The liberal justices correctly portend that the Supreme Court’s retrenchment on women’s reproductive rights will not pass the smell test of political neutrality. …
27 NOVEMBER 2021
Emergence, Watercolor, 21.5" x 29.5", Richard J Van Wagoner, Courtesy of Van Wagoner Family Trust**
She died August 28, 2021 of pancreatic cancer. Unafraid of death, she chose not to undergo the most aggressive treatments. Doctors said she could live up to 14 months from the date…
20 NOVEMBER 2021
Issues relating to Critical Race Theory, LGBTQ, and sex are central to the most recent culture wars du jour in school districts across the country. Like whack-a-moles, parents in a bubble, pols, and administrators who advocate banning books from high school libraries, including many of the classics…
14 NOVEMBER 2021
Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was subpoenaed to appear before the Jan. 6 Commission to give testimony relating to events that culminated in the attack on the Capitol. Meadows was a no-show. Even if Meadows had a legitimate basis to invoke executive privilege in answering…
13 NOVEMBER 2021
Today’s essay is a slightly revised version of one I posted a year ago. Utah’s own Dixie State University in St. George, Utah is undergoing a name change. The Name Recommendation Committee and Board of Trustees proposed changing the name to Utah Tech University. …
