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July 10, 2024   From the Southwest Ledger   By James Finck, Ph. D.   Starting with the Jefferson administration, the courts have recognized two types of immunity: absolute and qualified. Absolute is just how it sounds, absolute redress regardless of motive or action. Qualified is also how it sounds, it’s a limited protection. For…

July 03, 2024 From the Southwest Ledger By James Finck, Ph. D.   Historically speaking, presidential debates are relatively new. The first one presidential debate was held between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in 1960. Before then, debates were seen as beneath presidential candidates.   There were plenty of debates for other positions. The…

Most humans are so impressed with Man’s accomplishments that they completely forget that it was God, The Creator, who created an un-ending Heaven, and the Earth, and us. So they were impressed when NASA announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft had encounter some communication problems, and that after some months, our NASA scientists had fixed…

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From the Southwest Ledger   By James Finck, Ph. D.   I have received a great deal of positive feedback from last week’s article, especially regarding the need for many citizens to retake a civics class. For that, I thank you. As an educator at heart, I would like to conduct an in-depth, multi-installment study…

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June 20, 2024 From the Southwest Ledger   By James Finck, Ph. D.   Tragedy erupted on Oct. 1, 2017, at a country music festival in Las Vegas when a lone shooter killed 60 attendees from a 32ndstory hotel window. Mainly using AR-15 style weapons with the help of a bump stock, the shooter carried…

  By Dan Barkhuff and Naveed Shah   The signers of the Declaration of Independence, which America celebrates this week, all knew they were putting their lives on the line. Benjamin Franklin is said to have muttered, “we must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately.”   At the time, treason against the King…