Justice in Massachusetts: Get It Now With One Easy Payment Of $75.00!
By James Baxter, NMA President In the thin air atmosphere of appellate court deliberations it is sometimes difficult for we mere mortals to grasp the logic and rationale of great legal minds. That is unless we get back down in the mud of vested interests, obfuscation, and contorted self-serving reasoning.
Justice in Massachusetts: Get It Now With One Easy Payment Of $75.00!
By James Baxter, NMA President In the thin air atmosphere of appellate court deliberations it is sometimes difficult for we mere mortals to grasp the logic and rationale of great legal minds. That is unless we get back down in the mud of vested interests, obfuscation, and contorted self-serving reasoning.
Off The Rails
By James Baxter, NMA President Rationality, Rule of Law, Equal Treatment, Limited Authority, and the Balance of Power between the branches of government are a sampling of the “rails” that guide our society’s actions. On occasion, often in response to a crisis, real or imagined, the society runs off these rails and the principles and […]
Off The Rails
By James Baxter, NMA President Rationality, Rule of Law, Equal Treatment, Limited Authority, and the Balance of Power between the branches of government are a sampling of the “rails” that guide our society’s actions. On occasion, often in response to a crisis, real or imagined, the society runs off these rails and the principles and […]
Not Making The Grade
By James Baxter, NMA President A recent article in Slate Magazine by William Saletan was largely a hatchet job on one Rick Berman, who heads up a lobbying firm that represents all the “bad” industries and evil special interests. The specific target was Mr. Berman’s American Beverage Institute, a trade association comprised of chain and […]
Not Making The Grade
By James Baxter, NMA President A recent article in Slate Magazine by William Saletan was largely a hatchet job on one Rick Berman, who heads up a lobbying firm that represents all the “bad” industries and evil special interests. The specific target was Mr. Berman’s American Beverage Institute, a trade association comprised of chain and […]
The History Of The National Motorists Association
In the Jan/Feb and Mar/Apr 1992 issues of the National Motorists Association News (a forerunner of Driving Freedoms), Jim Baxter wrote his account of the first ten years of the organization that was founded in 1982 to combat the restrictive 55 mph National Maximum Speed Limit. This will be a trip down memory lane for […]
Federal Gas Tax Expires On September 30th
By James Baxter, NMA President It won’t be long and the grandstanding will start up in earnest. Nothing focuses the political mind like the potential loss of hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenue. Come the end of September, and with it the expiration of the 18.4 cent fuel tax, we will be thoroughly […]
Public Hearings: How Have Our Expectations Sunk So Low?
By James Baxter, NMA President I have long suffered the knowledge that most of what passes as public discussion on a range of political, social, cultural, and public policy issues is at best uninformed opinion and at worst deliberate and calculated lies. In between we have myths, unfounded assumptions, old wives tales, emotional rants, vague […]
Public Hearings: How Have Our Expectations Sunk So Low?
By James Baxter, NMA President I have long suffered the knowledge that most of what passes as public discussion on a range of political, social, cultural, and public policy issues is at best uninformed opinion and at worst deliberate and calculated lies. In between we have myths, unfounded assumptions, old wives tales, emotional rants, vague […]