RIGHT. Let's start filing civil lawsuits. Especially class-action lawsuits.

Expensive class-action lawsuits.

IF ONLY THEY WILL: Justices can settle America's class action problem. As an unwilling participant in several class-action suits, I think they should be banned outright and forever.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Class-action lawsuits produce big payouts --- for the lawyers. Ain't it the truth. I was the recipient of two class-action awards this year. In neither case was the 'award' worth the price of the stamp I'd need to deposit it. And in both cases, the lawyers' checks were in the millions.

A CLASS-ACTION SUIT I'M (FINALLY) PLEASED TO BE A PART OF: Rand Paul Suing President Obama.

This class action suit isn’t about Republican versus Democrat, or progressive versus conservative. This is about defending the basic civil liberties of every American from a government that has crossed the line.

It's about time.

NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION

[I]t is a very bad thing — politically and morally as well as economically — that so many tax payers in the U.S. pay no income tax at all. Some public-spirited lawyer should bring a class-action suit on their behalf, asking why so many people have been denied this essential perquisite of citizenship simply because they are of (relatively) modest means. It is an outrage (this counsellor should argue) that this not-so-hidden half of the population be treated as second-class citizens and be deprived of a stake in the future of our commonweal.

It’s a pleasant thought, but there’s no evidence to support the thesis that tax payers make better voting choices than tax recipients. And if you’re a net tax recipient, is it not a rational choice to go with the party that promises more (What’s the Matter with Kansas?)?

HOW TO GET RICH without hardly trying: become a class-action lawyer. The settlement was for $11.5 M; the 'class representatives' (names under which the case was filed) got $5,000 each, the lawyers were paid (first, naturally) $2,616,000.18; and I got a check for $1.35 (ninety cents after the stamp needed to deposit the check).

SUPREME COURT to decide whether millions of female employees can sue Walmart. If the court grants class certification, get ready for plenty of "you hurt my feelings" class-action lawsuits. UPDATE: the Supremes appear to be skeptical.

DALLAS POLICE OFFICER files lawsuit against Black Lives Matter. Other defendants in the class-action suit include President Obama; Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton; the Rev. Al Sharpton; Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and billionaire activist George Soros.

Good luck, sir. I wish you every success.

PUNCHING BACK: Greedy class-action lawyers take one on the chin. Here's a personal example of their greed.

HOW TO TAKE THE TWITTER FILES TO COURT: File a class action against federal agents seeking an injunction against social-media censorship efforts.

This I'd really really like to see....

ABOUT TIME: Judge Tosses Iffy Class Action – Says Plaintiff Can’t Claim She’s Too Stoopid To Understand Policies.

WHY NOT? Democrats should pay reparations. Class-action lawsuit, anyone?

OXYCLINTON:



Heh. And if it works, you can expect the 'bad drug' class-action lawsuits in early 2017.

LAWYERS LINING UP for class-action suits over oil spill. And if you don’t think that money is coming out of your pocket, you must be a liberal.

FROM MY EMAIL: The Lawyers' Party.

Barack Obama is a lawyer. Michelle Obama is a lawyer. Hillary Clinton is a lawyer. Bill Clinton is a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate). Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.

Look at the leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Harry Reid is a lawyer. Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different: Former President Bush is a businessman. Former Vice President Cheney is a businessman.

The leaders of the Republican Revolution: Newt Gingrich was a history professor. Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976.

The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich. The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America.

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?.Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation. This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become adverse parties of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.

When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.

The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers!

Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!

A lawyer with a [government] briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. Or as Instapundit has more succintly put it, fewer laws mean fewer opportunities for graft and corruption.

PUNCH BACK: "It's time for all small businesses to file a class-action lawsuit against President Obama and the federal government for creating a 'Hostile Work Environment that terrorizes us and prevents us from earning a living."

OH, ABOUT THOSE HEALTH INSURANCE REBATES? Most of the money goes back to your employer (who paid most of the premium). You get what the suckers in a class-action lawsuit get -- used.

INSTAPUNDIT: "Apparently, the GOP values donations more than votes." And the party isn't getting one thin dime from me until I see action on behalf of the middle class (e.g., me). Specific candidates, yes; party, no.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE of political correctness run amuck:

An eight year old elementary school student in Taunton was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick figure picture of Jesus on the cross.

The second grader at Maxham Elementary school was told by this teacher that the drawing was violent. This was after the class was asked to sketch something that reminded them of Christmas....

The school denied that the student was suspended: “School officials did not specify any action they took, but said they followed ‘well-established protocol,’ including reviewing the child's records and consulting with school psychologists.”

At the moment, this appears to be a "he said, she said" case. But given school tendencies toward "zero tolerance", the way to bet is against the school.

FROM THE WAYBACK MACHINE, Ayn Rand in 1944:

The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.

Totalitarianism is collectivism. Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group — whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called “the common good.”

Throughout history, no tyrant ever rose to power except on the claim of representing “the common good.”

And yes, I struggled through Atlas Shrugged myself. It took about 20 years.