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n march 2026 the disability rating to qualify for the exemption was 80 going forward it will be 40 this will allow more veterans to meet the first qualification for the exemption but there is more a qualified veteran must still meet the gross income requirements this gets a bit more complicated and i won t go into the details in this posting each county in washington state has different income requirements based on that county s median household income here is the link that shows preliminary income requirements for each county in washington so for now if you are a veteran with a 40 or higher disability rating and meet at least the tier 3 income requirement in your county you will get at least a 50 reduction in your property tax rate depends on your county and maybe more depending on your income bracket link cited above it won t make you rich but it will provide some financial relief at 2 25 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest chicago 32532 3rd ave black diamond wa 98010 usa friday april 24 2026 don t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up does this include a geofence the above is a quote from gk chesterton see short video here bottom line on the parameters for what constitutes a 4th amendment search of persons thus a fourth amendment search occurs when the government infringes on either a property interest or a reasonable expectation of privacy this quote comes from the cert petition for an upcoming supreme court case on the legality of a geofence search warrant i was not aware of such a thing before but the case is very interesting do you have 1 a property interest in the location data that google et al collect from your phone and 2 do you have an expectation of privacy in from the third party use of certain cell phone data the case is chatrie vs us and the question presented that the supreme court will address is whether the execution of the geofence warrant violated the fourth amendment at 3 40 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday march 21 2026 irac method of case briefing i am not a lawyer i just play one while sitting on my sofa apparently this is a basic first year law school technique that students learn to structure legal arguments i have watched quite a few videos on the irac method and the one below makes the concept easiest to understand in my opinion brynodc is an awesome source for legal news and information and is the best explainer i have found information source for this slide here is the video i used to construct the slide at 6 06 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday march 3 2026 french president macron is paging machiavelli to be free one must be feared i had to do a double take when i read the headline in this article to be free one must be feared here are a couple of excerpts from machiavelli s the prince it is much safer to be feared than loved because love is preserved by the link of obligation which owing to the baseness of men is broken at every opportunity for their advantage but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails all courses of action are risky so prudence is not in avoiding danger it s impossible but calculating risk and acting decisively make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth develop the strength to do bold things not the strength to suffer niccolo machiavelli at 12 02 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday january 22 2026 scotus trump vs cook and inm meaning i listened to the oral argument in trump v cook the attempted firing of a member of the governing council of the us federal reserve board i kept hearing a reference to the initials imn one of the frustrating things but an understandable one of trying to follow an oral argument the use of inside baseball shorthand often used by the justices and the lawyers i had to look it up in the legal context of the 2026 supreme court case trump v cook the acronym inm refers to the removal standard of inefficiency neglect of duty or malfeasance in office this standard is a central point of debate in the case which centers on president trump s attempt to remove federal reserve governor lisa cook the crux of the case centers on the meaning of two words for cause statutory requirement for cause the federal reserve act permits removal of a governor only for cause but it does not define what for cause means the parties dispute whether that standard includes things such as inefficiency neglect of duty or malfeasance in office or whether conduct unrelated to official duties can qualify source here at 9 40 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday january 21 2026 capaciousness a word i cannot live up to since retiring from teaching i have become a student of the supreme court i am receiving a fairly comprehensive education in many respects i have to look up the definition of words not generally used in everyday conversations as such i have to look up capacious every time i hear read it which is quite often in the language of the supreme court given one of the general uses of the term i get the irony of having to look it up every time high capacity emphasizes the ability to contain or retain more than average rather than just having a large area at 10 28 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday december 17 2025 the core consumer and elasticity a visual representation of thinking at the margin the brief presentation above illustrates the concept of relative elasticity which is often implicit in articles describing specific economic conditions the excerpt below which caught my eye is from this article on the struggles the fast food chain jack in the box is facing while jack in the box has its fans it s fair to say the chain l acks enough of a dedicated audience to keep it successful during difficult financial periods jack in the box draws casual occasional sometimes inebriated diners especially in social or late night contexts that audience exists but it s too small and intermittent to drive lasting success dedicated audience suggests consumers who prefer jack in the box fare regardless of other choices in the fast food category their demand is relatively inelastic this core consumer is vital to the financial success of any business the goal is to enlarge this core to capture consumers who are not as dedicated relatively more elastic in their demand i think the above short presentation i made vividly illustartes the concept helps me visualize the economic concept of elasticity at 12 01 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday november 1 2025 wondering what the tariff case learning resources vs trump is all about can sum it up in one word regulate yup that s about it what is the meaning of regulate in the context of the ieep article 1 taxing authority section 8 enumerated power and article 2 presidential power to conduct foreign policy the image below is the relevant part of the ieep the definition of regulate and whether it includes the authority for the president to levy tariffs read that a tax is at the heart of a major part of the issue learning resources says the ieep does not use the word concept tariff so there is no authority to do so their claim is that the ieep was an attempt to limit presidential power in this area the trump administration says the word regulate implies explicitly the authority to levy tariffs given that the other prescriptive verbs that follow regulate don t specifically say quotas but they historically have been used to impose such quotas on foreign goods i look forward to attending this oral argument next week at the us supreme court at 8 45 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest say hello to my fellow 65 year olds you are going to see a lot of us for the next 30 years while the graphic below is physically hard to read it seems they could have made the differences a little more stark the lesson it teaches is clear demographics are and will be for a long time a large driver of the federal budget social security medicare etc i turned 65 this year so you can see i am at the forefront of the gray tsunami that will continue to build and crest over the next 30 years this will have a continued impact on the federal budget and social policy for at least another generation from the congressional budget office the long term budget outlook 2025 to 2055 the share of the population age 65 or older is projected to increase over the coming decades continuing a long standing trend see figure 3 2 from 2015 to 2024 that share rose from 14 4 percent to 17 9 percent driven mainly by the aging of members of the large baby boom generation that was born between 1946 and 1964 the percentage of the population age 65 or older continues to increase in cbo s projections rising from 18 3 percent in 2025 to 21 2 percent in 2035 and 23 4 percent in 2055 at 5 28 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest i won the lottery well not that one but the supreme court seat lottery i was just notified that i won a guaranteed seat through the supreme court pilot program to allocate public seats to observe the oral argument in the case of learning resources vs trump on wednesday november 5 the soon to be famous infamous tariff case i have been to washington dc before but not to the supreme court to even visit this is a bucket list item for me so i am happy to have the chance to witness the discussion on an important case as with many cases that have political and economic impact i suspect they scheduled this one as the only one that day because it will be a lengthy oral argument i guess i will get my lottery payment and then some in history and drama here is the cert petition from learning resources here is the response to the cert petition from the government trump s position at 5 05 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday october 29 2025 birthright citizenship reaching back into legal history blackstone edition this recent scholarship on the issue of birthright citizenship is worth a read if you are interested in the topic it errs with historical evidence on the side that birthright citizenship is a thing and is both explicit implied both can be true in the 14th amendment source divided argument without domicile or allegiance gypsies and birthright citizenship by gerard magliocca this essay argues that the invocations of gypsies or roma during the debates on the civil rights act of 1866 and the citizenship clause of the fourteenth amendment drew on blackstone s discussion of them in his commentaries and means that legal immigration status domicile and allegiance are not requirements for birth citizenship in the united states another important entry in defense of the correct conventional wisdom on birthright citizenship at 11 41 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday august 3 2025 even the supreme court wrestles with lie vs lay supreme court issues revisions of opinions when there are mistakes in spelling grammar or other relatively minor errors in construction given the number ot times these opinions are passed around to each justice and their clerks i am surprised any serious mistakes are not caught and corrected pictured below page 10 of the document is one we can all feel the difference between lay vs lie this correction is in the case of trump vs casa the recent birthright injunction case english teachers if you find this enjoy at 9 22 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday july 13 2025 the declaration of independence more on the significance of necessity in the document the declaration of independence is one of my favorite documents in the course of learning about it i have discovered that individual words and phrases were carefully selected to convey the meaning intended words that if one did not know the historical meaning and context would not mean very much i came across a pamphlet written in 1648 during the english civil war 1640 1651 i can t verify that thomas jefferson read this particular pamphlet but the two phrases below are remarkably similar in wording and meaning when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another from the declaration this is from the pamphlet the mournful cries of many thousand poor tradesmen anonymous o parliament men and soldiers necessity dissolves all laws and government and hunger will break through stone walls tender mothers will sooner devour you than the fruit of their own womb and hunger regards no swords nor cannons it may be some great oppressors intends tumults that they may escape in a crowd but your food may then be wanting as well as ours and your arms will be hard diet o hark hark at our doors how our children cry bread bread bread and we now with bleeding hearts cry once more to you pity pity an oppressed enslaved people carry our cries in the large petition to the parliament and tell them if they be still deaf the tears of the oppressed will wash away the foundations of their houses amen amen so be it notice the similarities king george iii would be very familiar with this language when he first read the declaration jefferson channeled the writings of john locke baron de montesquieu and jean jacques rousseau among others why not this one too here is another post i did on the importance of the word necessity in the declaration at 5 18 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom featured post calculating 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