April 14, 2010 by Zale.

It used to be that bullying in schools had to do with bigger kids picking on smaller ones.  While that still goes on, a bigger bully has slowly crept into our schools.  Groups like the ACLU have been making strides to get deeper and deeper into our schools in the name of liberty.  However, what they have actually done is turned our school systems into censorship boards for religious speech.  Here’s a good article that discusses this point further.

Recently, I met with a group of Christians dealing with this issue.  The ACLU filed suit over a student praying and Bibles being passed out at schools.  Oh the humanity!! Now with all that goes on in kids lives, is this what they think they should put their time and effort into?  Ridiculous!  Anyway, the result of that case now has the school system scared to allow the students and teachers to have their constitutionally protected free speech.  Why?  Not because the school actually agrees with the ACLU, but because they are scared of them.

What do we do with bullies?  We stand up to them.  Groups like the ADF, Liberty Counsel and the ACLJ do it all the time.  Don’t fear the ACLU, if you have an issue like this get a God fearing attorney to stand with you (yes, they really do exist)!

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October 13, 2009 by Zale.

An officer pulls over soon to be DUI defendant.  The officer asks the soon to be DUI defendant to do some standard field sobriety tests.  Obviously at the “top of his/her game” the soon to be DUI defendant says, “sure, if you’ll do them with me.”  The questioning officer declines off handed offer, but the officer’s partner, who has been watching up to this point, gladly accepts the offer.  The officer’s partner completes the tests perfectly while the very soon to be DUI defendant falls all over his/herself.  Of course, all of this is caught on the officer’s dashboard camera.

So, whether you comply or not with an officer’s request to do a field sobriety test is up to you, but please, don’t ask an officer to serve as a bench mark on how the test should be completed, unless you know FOR A FACT that the other officer is drunker than you are.

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October 10, 2008 by Zale.

I know that I’m a bit of an anomaly, since I am a conservative trial lawyer (yes, we do exist and I will tell Sasquatch and Nessi hello for you).  Like many Americans, frivolous litigation just drives me nuts.

Here’s a good example.  The headline is: “Judge Tosses Hair Dye Lawsuit for Blonde Who Had Less Fun as Brunette”.  Apparently this lady had to be on anti-depressants since she claimed that brown hair dye was in a box labeled “blonde”.  “Oh the humanity!”  I’m pretty sure that if this lady was on anti-depressants, it wasn’t solely due to this hair incident.  Wouldn’t it have made more sense just to go to the salon instead of the shrink?

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