In 2020, our economic liberty is being threatened by government mandated shutdowns. We are being subjected to regulation of private property, business, and commerce…
Author: Gary Beatty
Gary Beatty lives between Florida and Pagosa Springs. He retired after 30 years as a prosecutor for the State of Florida, has a doctorate in law, is Board Certified in Criminal Trial law by the Florida Supreme Court, and is now a law professor.
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Election of 1800, and Amy Coney Barrett
The system of ‘checks & balances’ built into our Constitution was designed to defuse the detrimental effects of faction…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Supreme Court and Indian Country
They held that since Congress made a Treaty setting the boundaries of “Indian Country” the US government is bound by it…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: ‘Playing Favorites’ with the Land Use Code
One ostensible purpose of land use regulations is to establish objective, legally binding standards thus — theoretically — precluding corruption. Instead they encourage it….
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The ‘Secret War’ in Southeast Asia
I spent a year at Nakon Phanom (NKP) Royal Thai Air Force Base… in northeast Thailand, directly west of the DMZ in Vietnam…
OPINION: Defining ‘Social Justice’
I have an acquaintance who grew up in Russia when it was part of the USSR. She lived there through the fall of that regime…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Groupthink
There is an old saying that “a camel is horse designed by a committee”! That came to mind as I was reading Bill Hudson’s series on the Dry Gulch water reservoir project. There were two committees involved – the PAWSD and the SJWCD. What could go wrong? How is it possible to overpay for property READ MORE
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Tides of Change
As a glass-half-full guy, I’ve taken a positive view of parts of Florida reverting to seabed…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Of Tourism
Tourism has been an integral part of Florida’s economy, for good and ill, since… well, since Ponce De Leon came ashore in 1513…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Crosses and Thought Control
“In Flanders fields the poppies grow, amid the crosses row on row”. On June 21, the US Supreme Court quoted from John McCrae’s sobering 1915 poem when they held 7-2 that a cross erected to commemorate American WWI dead does not violate the “establishment clause” of the First Amendment. The “establishment clause” prohibits Congress from READ MORE
OPINION: Equal Justice Under the Law
Socialism ignores that individual initiative is an inherent human trait…
OPINION: Believe the Survivor? Why?
Covering up an indiscretion is one reason a woman would lie about sexual assault. There are a others…
OPINION: Supreme Court Weighs In on Internet Purchases
A majority of the Supreme Court decided they had to fix what they call a “serious inequity in the law”…
OPINION: Old School Politics
Whenever I hear we need to spend tax dollars “for the kids” I think of Johnson’s words…