The ObamaCare Juggernaut ContinuesSource: The New Media Journal Headline News
As the Congress continues to rewrite and introduce new versions of so called health care reform legislation in both houses of Congress the citizens of the United States are treated to longer and longer bills that are more and more confusing.
The New Pelosi Version of HR3200Source: The New Media Journal Headline News
We are about to lose our Republic because this latest version of HR 3200 takes away our freedom to make our own choices in areas such as what type of insurance we want to have, (if any), how much we are willing and able to pay for insurance, which doctors we choose to take care o …
The Consequences of the Choices Act of 2009Source: The New Media Journal Headline News
Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law.

Michael Connelly's latest novel, unfortunately, suffers from the same malady as Ian Rankin's final (or so he says) Rebus book, best diagnosed by Patrick Anderson of the Washington Post.
Symptoms of this malady include excessive use of cliches and wooden writing and dialogue.
As A …

Michael Connelly is one of my favorite crime writers but in his latest book, The Lincoln Lawyer, he tries his hand at legal fiction.
The result is mixed: The novel is better than the average legal thriller but it is inferior to Connelly's other books.

Robert Crais is one of the best crime writers around and his new book, The Watchman, is further evidence of that fact. The books come out on March 1.
I have been reading Crais for several years and telling others to check him out too.

This interview with Michael Connelly was a personal thrill as he is both one of my favorite writers and someone who successfully made the transition from news reporter to crime writer.

It would be a disservice, and incomplete, to describe George Pelecanos as someone who writes novels about crime. He is, at times, a sociologist, an analyst and an oral historian.