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James C. Nelson

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The Great Seashell Threat: a Former Montana Supreme Court Justice on the Comey Indictment

In modern parlance, “86” means to deny entry or to get rid of. If the bar has a customer that is habitually drunk, gropes female patrons, refuses...

05.05.2026 20

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James C. Nelson

The Rule of Law

There is one thread that holds the cloth of democracy together. That is the Rule of Law. For the most part, we take the rule of law for granted; we...

03.05.2026 10

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James C. Nelson

Birds of a Feather

As the old saying goes, “birds of a feather stick together.”  It appears that pedophiles do too. Take, for example, Ghislaine Maxwell.  She is...

10.02.2026 10

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James C. Nelson

The Rhyme: Kent State and Renee Good

On May 4, 1970, following Republican President Richard Nixon’s April 1970, announcement of the expansion of the Viet Nam War into Cambodia, the Ohio...

15.01.2026 30

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Trump by the Book

One takeaway from Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s excellent book, Strongmen, Mussolini to the Present, is that there is a playbook pursuant to which all...

22.10.2025 20

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Our Republic: Finally Lost to a Moron

As Benjamin Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a woman asked: “Well Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy?” ...

01.10.2025 20

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James C. Nelson