The Jihad Seminar Oct 10, 2008
As the American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes said almost a century ago: "We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.". It is obvious that legislation of this type is a lawyers' picnic but its real vice is that it can be used by groups to suppress ideas they don't like. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Your say: how do we stop the panic? Oct 10, 2008
The situation is rightly articulated by Oliver Wendell Holmes is that: "There is something much scarcer and rarer than ability; it is the ability to recognize ability.". On the other hand, the distinction between "The Rare and "The Hyped" is by far difficult, and people or institutions are easily misled to believe one with the other. The theories of leadership, needs to make a serious attempt to recognize this lapse. In an axiomatic approach, we see that the leaders of "The Rare" Quadrangle, do... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Thomas L. Friedman: Palin's kind of patriotism Oct 8, 2008
No one said it better than Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.". I can understand someone saying that the government has no business bailing out the financial system, but I can't understand someone arguing that we should do that but not pay for it with taxes. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
On path to presidency, stark contrast in role models Oct 7, 2008
When Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declared that Franklin D. Roosevelt was "a second-class intellect but a first-class temperament," it came off as a dry-martini putdown. But scholars saw it as capturing the essence of FDR's greatness, how his jaunty personality helped the country maintain a sense of optimism throughout the Great Depression and World War II.. (Boston Globe)
President Bush Discusses Judicial Accomplishments and Philosophy Oct 7, 2008
Before Oliver Wendell Holmes took his seat on the Supreme Court, he met a supporter who wished him well in his new duties. The supporter expressed satisfaction that Holmes would be going to Washington to administer justice. (White House News Releases)
WHICH CONSTITUTION? Academic explores the Constitution's purpose, role in today's society Sep 19, 2008
Beginning with Associate Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the absolutes of the Constitution were undermined, and the door was opened for an evolutionary theory of law. Therefore, in 1907, Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes said "the Constitution is what the judges say it is." Why go through the democratic process of amending the Constitution when it can be made to say anything through judicial fiat. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Facts just the facts Sep 11, 2008
But in it I said I carried Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes in a private elevator and was nervous about getting it level with the floor so as not to risk the great old man tripping and falling. I also had written that Justice Sanford and Chief Justice Taft had died on the same day, March 8, 1930. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
EXCERPT: Read a little from 'Supreme Courtship' Sep 9, 2008
It was when Justice Brinnin became convinced that the ghost of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was whispering in his ears trying to influence his vote that he reached for the aluminum foil. Chief Justice Declan Hardwether, who was himself going through a rough patch at the time, found the situation embarrassing. (USA Today -- Life)
Will The 'Bare Below The Elbows' Rule For Doctors Cut Infection Rates Or Just Patient Confidence? Sep 9, 2008
Obstetrician Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) established an early link between infection, surgeons attire and cleanliness. He urged fellow surgeons to wash themselves, put on clean clothes and refrain from deliveries for 48 hours after coming into contact with a case of puerperal fever. (Science Daily)
Holliston resident president-elect of Mass. Bar Association Aug 26, 2008
She is also an Oliver Wendell Holmes Life Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, and has served on its grant advisory committee. In addition, Yarashus is a past president of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. (Holliston Tab, MA)
Running To Prevent Aging Aug 24, 2008
-Oliver Wendell Holmes. Source: Stanford University Medical Center (2008, August 11). (Suite101.com)
Overheard, out and about, Mrs. Grundy sees all, tells all Aug 23, 2008
"Congratulations to Cindy Benson for 22 years as educational administrative assistant at First Baptist!The Alabama Department of Archives and History has planned a presentation at noon September l8 in the Department in Montgomery for the public to hear Dr. John H. Blitz speak on prehistoric Moundville.Representatives of local units of the Alabama Education Association in Conecuh, Covington, and Escambia counties (known as District 24) met for the first time this academic year July 28 at Reid... (Andalusia Star News, AL)
Politics: Experience no sure sign of success as president Aug 18, 2008
He recalled Oliver Wendell Holmes' description of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a second-rate intellect with a first-rate temperament. That ability to know what is important, who to pick, who to listen to, what you put first in your priorities. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
'Staycation': Two Thumbs Down Aug 17, 2008
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote it is required of a man that he share those actions and passions, "at the peril of being judged not to have lived." Most of us will reject the boring, enervating, vapid staycation. One final word: I am not directing the above remarks to people who simply don't have the funds to travel, and must therefore vacation at home. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
LETTERS: NCT, Aug. 7, 2008 Aug 8, 2008
as oliver wendell holmes observed, taxes are the price we pay forcivilization. liberaljim wrote on Aug 7, 2008 4:46 PM:Ron, at 12:26 on "continuing the education of liberaljim"1. (North County Times)
Roger Cohen: Aux barricades! France and the Jews Aug 3, 2008
" I don't agree with Levy. I think too much has been made of Sin? and his feeble attempts at humor and that firing him risks stirring, rather than assuaging, what remains of French anti-Semitism. Let's be clear on three things. Sin? clearly nurses some vile views about Jews. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as refracted in France through a growing Muslim population and virulent anti-Zionism among leftists, has produced new forms of anti-Semitism. There are murmurings in a Catholic-right French... (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
'Twilight' 's last gleaming Jul 28, 2008
He proudly notes that two leading figures in the legal proceedings were Boston-born graduates of Harvard Law School: Moorfield Storey, who represented the defendants before the Supreme Court, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote the landmark decision. Coming out. (Boston Globe)
Property rights are not supreme Jul 27, 2008
In Abrahams v. United States, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote that legislation that effects property or economic rights needed only a rational basis to establish its constitutionality whereas limitations on freedom of speech could only be justified by a clear and present danger. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that government actions that infringe on property rights must merely reasonably relate to a legitimist interest while First Amendment freedoms usually receive more protection... (Winona Daily News, MN)
JOSEPH S. NYE JR.: Voters gauge candidates' emotional IQs Jul 18, 2008
Call: (800) 877-3400. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
No rush to retire black robes on Supreme Court Jul 14, 2008
Goldstein predicts only Stevens will retire during the next four years and not before he surpasses Oliver Wendell Holmes who stepped down two months shy of his 91st birthday, in 1932 to become the oldest sitting justice ... Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Justices don't rush to retire Jul 13, 2008
Goldstein boldly predicts that only Stevens will retire during the next four years and not before he surpasses Oliver Wendell Holmes to become the oldest sitting justice. That would happen in February 2011. (USA Today)
You may not know how your brain lies to you Jul 5, 2008
In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the Supreme Court wrote that "the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market". Holmes erroneously assumed that ideas are more likely to spread if they are honest. (Xinhuanet, China)
Your brain lies to you Jun 29, 2008
In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the Supreme Court wrote that "the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market." Holmes erroneously assumed that ideas are more likely to spread if they are honest. Our brains do not naturally obey this admirable dictum, but by better understanding the mechanisms of memory perhaps we can move closer to Holmes' ideal. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
In bed with the boys from Fife Jun 29, 2008
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war,' said Oliver Wendell Holmes of the American Civil War. We felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. (Guardian Unlimited)
Empty promises Jun 24, 2008
In the former approach, the following statement by Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes would be worth reflecting upon: Of relative justice, law may know something. Of expediency, it knows much. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Scenes from a life Jun 21, 2008
He spent August 1865, when he was 22, in North Conway, New Hampshire, with his cousin Minny Temple and her sisters; they were joined by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr and John Gray, both civil war veterans, who admired Minny and grew to love her. James's early story "Poor Richard" (1867) dealt with three men, two of them war veterans, one ill, who admire a single brilliant woman. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind Jun 20, 2008
He is often grouped with his famed New England literary contemporaries like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry W. Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. However, because of poverty, he did not have a formal college education. (Suite101.com)
MLB's replay plan needs review Jun 18, 2008
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said tough cases make bad law because they are not the norm. Using calls that were clearly wrong as the catalyst to institute video review may result in bad rules for baseball. (USA Today -- Sports)
Owners Manual For The United States - Just in time for the 4th of July! Jun 17, 2008
Also included are other noted Supreme Court Justices, including Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Hugo Black, William Douglas, William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, and Harry Blackmun ... Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Jurist's career of firsts hits a milestone Jun 16, 2008
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
War Powers Why This Court Keeps Rebuking This President Jun 15, 2008
War opens dangers that do not exist at other times, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote. He had earlier been the author of the Supreme Court s unanimous opinion in a 1919 case upholding the conviction of radicals who had published an antidraft pamphlet during World War I. When a nation is at war, the opinion said, many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that no court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right. (New York Times)
Free speeh, eh? Why is Canada prosecuting Mark Steyn? Jun 14, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court has generally agreed with jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes that the right to swing your fist stops at the beginning of the other guy's nose. To paraphrase Nat Hentoff's anti-censorship treatise Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee, offensive speech in this country ought to be combated with more speech. (CBC.ca)
Roger Cohen: Bush does Europe incognito Jun 12, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes described President Franklin D. Roosevelt as "a second-class intellect but a first-rate temperament." His endless malapropisms have made Bush's intellect the object of ridicule. But his mind was not the problem. (International Herald Tribune)
Investor's Edge Jun 2, 2008
I'm going to ignore the pundits and take the advice of Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Prophesy as much as you like, but always hedge.". Q. Is alternative energy a good equity investment. (Syracuse.com)
Berkman expected to take the stand today May 28, 2008
Goldstick replied that he was citing a quote -- from Ralph Waldo Emerson to famous jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.. "All I meant was that, because of Craig Berkman's social, political and business prominence, we needed to be on firm ground legally," Goldstick said. (OregonLive, OR -- Business)
GRADUATION 2008: Last words from '08 May 28, 2008
As Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. The chain may lengthen, but it never parts.". JOY CHOI. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The fallen live on May 26, 2008
IN 1884, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Civil War veteran and Supreme Court justice-to-be, gave perhaps the most famous Memorial Day speech. "To us who remain behind is left this day," he said as he summoned to mind his comrades from Massachusetts who had perished 20 years before. (Boston Globe)
Remembering Emerson May 23, 2008
In his famous "American Scholar" address at Harvard University in 1837, he declared American intellectual independence from the Old World: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." By the time he joined Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes at Boston's Parker House Hotel in 1857 to plan for the publication of a new magazine (The Atlantic Monthly), he was secure in his reputation as the Sage of Concord, and... (The Atlantic Online)
Random Thoughts May 20, 2008
The great Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a good catchword could stop people from thinking for 50 years. The big catchword this election year is "change"-- and it has already stopped many people's thinking in its tracks. (Townhall.com)
McCain's Supreme wrongheadedness May 14, 2008
"If my fellow citizens want to go to Hell," declared Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a staunch advocate of judicial restraint, "I will help them. It's my job.". It was a clever remark - but a poor recipe for sustaining the Framers' system of checks and balances, or defending important liberty interests against political encroachment. (Boston Globe)
The hand that rocks the cradle May 13, 2008
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother s secret hope outlives them all. At times, mothers are pictured as angels with wings or as goddesses; however, I would rather see an everyday mother, without divine wings or supernatural power, who undertakes all the challenges dished out to her by fate and the world and stands unwaveringly to raise her children with confidence, patience and everlasting, unconditional love. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Energy drink side effects worry schools May 12, 2008
Ask a group of McClatchy High School students what they're drinking and they'll shout out their favorite energy drinks: "Monster!" "Rockstar!" "Boo Koo!" "Go Girls!" Or stop by Nugget Market in Davis on a Wednesday morning and witness adolescents drinking Red Bulls and Monsters before heading to Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High School, where the drinks have been banned from campus. In the past 12 months, the California Poison Control System has handled 26 calls about dangerous reactions to... (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Mother's Day May 11, 2008
"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes. "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power." -- Maya Angelou. (NJ.com -- Times)
11 Things: Mother's Day May 8, 2008
Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.". Mom: "My secret hope is that you'll make your bed someday.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
There's no reason we should pay more taxes Apr 22, 2008
cross1242 wrote on Apr 20, 2008 1:44 PM:" This week, Prof. Clayson discusses taxes. Perusing through his column, we learn that: (1) Taxes neednt be increased. (In the headline but never mentioned again.) (2) Payroll taxes are bad. People should just pay everything on April 15th. (3) All taxes amount to confiscation. (4) Free exchanges create wealth; forced exchanges destroy wealth. (5) All government is incompetent and corrupt. In the end, the only conclusions that can be made from that... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Some things that need looking at Apr 22, 2008
(Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. Supreme Court justice). A plan must be very clear about landowners rights. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Connecting Hitler and Darwin Apr 18, 2008
Oh that mine head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears," runs the lamentation in Jeremiah 9.1, that I might weep day and night for the slain daughters of my people. And yet if anti-Semitism has been the white noise of European history, to assign it causal powers over the Holocaust is simply to ignore very specific ideas that emerged in the 19th century, and that at once seized the imagination of scientists throughout the world. What is often called social Darwinism was a malignant force... (Human Events Online)
South Amenia church restores historic stained glass window Apr 18, 2008
These have the theme of men and women of letters and include authors such as Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes. During the 1930s Depression years, the Howards opened their farmhouse home as a restaurant and bed-and-breakfast. (Henrietta Post, NY)
Letters to the editor (April 18) Apr 18, 2008
The actual quotation is from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in a 1904 decision. His exact words: Great cases like hard cases make bad law. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Onward the Revolution! Apr 13, 2008
Russia "was our friend/When the world was our foe," wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes. When Nixon launched his airlift to save Israel in the Yom Kippur War, autocratic Portugal let us use the Azores. (Human Events Online)
Transcript of Nathan J. Hochman, Tax Division's Assistant Attorney General Announcing Creation of the National Tax Defier Initiative Apr 10, 2008
The saying above the IRS's building on Constitution Avenue, right over there, by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes states it best: "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society." From the quality of the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink, the streets we drive on and the security we expect, taxes are the lifeblood of the American civilized society. Now, what do honest, law-abiding tax payers expect in return from the government. (PR Newswire)
11 Things: Truth for sale Mar 28, 2008
- Oliver Wendell Holmes. (sponsored by: quiet modesty). (San Francisco Chronicle)
Book Review: Change of Heart Mar 26, 2008
In her newsletter for devotees, which is actually called Pi-Cult, Jodi Picoult describes doing research for her new novel, "Change of Heart." Some of it took her to a prison in Arizona, where she found herself right next to the lethal-injection gurney while discussing the death penalty with the warden. She also visited a gas chamber. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
First in our minds Mar 23, 2008
It was this warped construct that led Oliver Wendell Holmes to write "Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man, if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.". We forget that the first Native American met by Pilgrims who landed in 1620 was Samoset, who greeted them in the English he had already picked up from fishermen along the New England coast. (Boston Globe)
Without bonuses, success in selling Mar 17, 2008
- Oliver Wendell Holmes. Here's Mitch Little describing the reaction of sales prospects when he tells them how his sales force works: "They look at me like I have a hole in my head.". (AZCentral -- Business)
Judging the capacity to govern Mar 15, 2008
As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously quipped after meeting Franklin D. Roosevelt: "a second-class intellect but a first-class temperament.". Today in Opinion. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Re: Guest commentary Mar 7, 2008
One of your great jurists, Oliver Wendell Holmes suggested that Taxation is the cost of civilization. I believe he was correct. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
This Day in History Mar 6, 2008
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (1841-1935). Untitled Document. (Montana Standard, MT)
Click for Full Story Mar 6, 2008
In 1935, retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior died in Washington ... Thought for Today: "To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , U-S Supreme Court justice (1841-1935). (KWTX.com, TX)
Hate speech should be discussed, not censored Mar 3, 2008
In fact, its legal history dates back to a famous dissent following the majority opinion in Abrams v. US (1919), when Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes asserted that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideasthe best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. Applying the line of reasoning put forth in Holmes argument, one could infer that because hate speech, by and large, is not regarded as a valuable... (Yale Herald, CT)
Hillary Supporters Jumping Ship Feb 27, 2008
While at Time the Carlson woman gushed that Hillarys friends described her as an amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. " In a Time magazine cover story, Margaret Carlson pulled out all the stops composing a hymn to the sainted wife of President Clinton, and producing a classic journalistic emetic. "As the icon of American womanhood she is a medium through which the remaining anxieties over feminism are being played out, Carlson rhapsodized. (Newsmax)
Keeping those hands clean Feb 25, 2008
American physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. also recommended the practice. Jelinek said the most common disease he has seen that could be reduced through hand-washing is MRSA, of which there are two types: hospital or nursing-home acquired variety, and the community acquired variety which is much more aggressive. (Yuma Daily Sun, AZ)
What Is Love? Students at Auburn tell Feb 13, 2008
And Oliver Wendell Holmes stated that Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. The Bible talks about love a lot, telling us to love one another and that love is patient and kind. (Russellville News Democrat Leader, KY)
A noncommissioned sales force? You're crazy Feb 11, 2008
"Put not your trust in money; put your money in trust." - Oliver Wendell Holmes. Here's Mitch Little describing the reaction of sales prospects when he tells them how his sales force works: "They look at me like I have a hole in my head.". (Boston Globe)
4 comments Feb 10, 2008
"Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live, I am coming.'" Were Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. alive today, he might ascribe that line not to death but to nuclear terrorism. Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, Americans have had to live with the knowledge that the next time the terrorists strike, it could be not with airplanes capable of killing thousands but atomic bombs capable of killing hundreds of thousands. (Human Events Online)
