Legal Commentary

Top Ten Spas in the World : The Telegraph includes Traben-Trarbach's Five-Star Parkschloesschen in their Elite List

Posted on March 05, 2009

Law Firms You Do not Want to Work For : The AmLaw Daily Presents its List of Top Ten Firms in Terms of Associate and Staff Layoffs

Posted on March 05, 2009

The Six Pillars of Russian Strength in the Current Economic Crisis as Analyzed at Stratfor.com

Posted on March 05, 2009

Managing Mortgage Market Malaise : Cringely to the Rescue : Recent Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Increase Suggests a Market Upturn

Posted on March 05, 2009

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

German Constitutional & Election Law : Electronic Vote Computers Rejected by Germany's Federal Constitutional Court for Lack of Proper Public Scrutiny

Posted on March 05, 2009

How to Effectively Bail Out the Automobile Industry in the United States : The Carrot for New Car Purchases : The Stick for Polluting Old Car Drivers

Posted on March 04, 2009

Understanding the Global Recession : Banks and Money : A Primer for Governments, Economists and Laymen : MV = PQ : German Car Buying Model Incentive

Posted on March 04, 2009

Russian Law Online : Top News : Legal Newsletter : Encyclopedia of Russian Law

Posted on March 03, 2009

Publications Authored and Co-Authored by the Law Pundit

Posted on March 01, 2009

American Art and Culture : How about a U.S. Secretary of Culture ? : Life in the USA : Is the American Way of Life Sustainable?

Posted on March 01, 2009

Economic Recovery : Are You a Part of the Solution, or Are You a Part of the Problem? Latham & Watkins as a Negative Example of Recovery Policy

Posted on February 28, 2009

Oil & Gas Cartels and American Inertia on Energy Issues : Major Culprits for the Current Economic Situation in the World?

Posted on February 28, 2009

The LawPundit RSS Feed at Dipity Shows a Timeline of LawPundit Postings

Posted on February 28, 2009

Lulin the Green Comet Passes Earth Not to Return for a Million Years if at all : View the Green Goddess : Now or Never : See it Via a Dipity Timeline

Posted on February 26, 2009
See it now or never. The Green Goddess, comet Lulin, or simply Comet C/2007 N3, whose green color comes from a cyanide-type gas that envelops the comet, has already passed Earth and is leaving quickly. Here is Lulin in the presentation format of Dipity, a timeline-based lifestreaming aggregator of Internet content that apparently anyone can use to make their own personal timeline widgets (we have not tried this out yet fully and we disclaim any and all liability for other news articles on any topic that may show up alongside Lulin on Dipity, and from what we have seen, be prepared to see some things you do not want to see - this is not our timeline):Comet Lulin on Dipity...

World Economic Situation Emphasizes Unique Leadership Role of the United States of America : Friedman at the New York Times Pages Uncle Sam

Posted on February 25, 2009
Thomas L. Friedman has it right in quoting a "senior" South Korean official concerning the current world situation:"?No other country can substitute for the U.S.,? a senior Korean official remarked to me. ?The U.S. is still No. 1 in military, No. 1 in economy, No...

SlideShare is a Nifty Website for Uploading and Sharing Presentations such as Power Point or Photographs, with Audio & Video Integration Offered

Posted on February 23, 2009
We tried our Phaistos Disk and Elamite PPT on SlideShare.net and got excellent results. SlideShare also provided a transcript of the text without graphics or other slide formatting, which is in fact extremely useful for many purposes (see all that below)...

LawPundit Graphic Interface Updated and Modernized including a Veritable Widget Panoply and Special Features Installed

Posted on February 21, 2009
In the course of updating and modernizing the LawPundit blog,we now have the following widgets, gadgets and special features installed. We are not sure we will keep all of these new installations, but most of them for sure:ABA Journal Widget - Latest Legal News - right columnClipmarks special feature - the ClipCast is in the left columnLingospot In-Text Content Discovery - certain selected words or phrases can be featured as lingolinks, e...

The LawPundit Traben-Trarbach Header

Posted on February 21, 2009
As of February 21, 2009, the LawPundit graphic interface has been updated and modernized for the reader, also adding some brand new state-of -the-art bells and whistles to make a reading of this web journal (viz. blog, blawg, weblog) more enjoyable. Here we explain the header...

London by Night, From the Air : Fantastic Aerial Photography by Jason Hawkes

Posted on February 20, 2009
Jason Hawkes was the photographer for the memorable publication Prehistoric Britain from the Air, by Janet & Colin Bord, one of the most prized books in my personal library, which was instrumental in my writing of Stars Stones and Scholars, the cover of which is found in the right column of this LawPundit blog...

World Best Cities in terms of Quality of Life : Business Week presents Mercer Consulting list of Best Places to Live : The Top Ten

Posted on February 19, 2009
Globally seen, what are the best places in the world to live? And if it is good to live there, these places might well be worth a visit when you are planning your next vacation. We show the top 10 here.Business Week carries an article by Carl Winfield at The World's Best Places to Live 2008, presenting the annual Mercer Consulting list of global cities having the best quality of life (see the Mercer Quality of Living Reports)...

Plaxo Pulse as a Coming Blockbuster Social Networking Appplication plus Career Opportunity and Job Search Connector

Posted on February 19, 2009
Looking to connect with people you know, knew or would like to know? At a grownup and/or professional level? Or how about alerting everyone in your firm or company or organizational community, committee or team, etc. - immediately - where you will be, e...

Königstein im Taunus ca. 1895 : Photograph of the Detroit Photographic Company via the Library of Congress : Rendering 1646 AD : Modern Video of Town

Posted on February 17, 2009
Since the LawPundit was born in Königstein im Taunus, I have added some more information for family and friends and for anyone else interested in this part of Germany.Königstein im Taunus in the late 19th Century (1890 to 1900) : Photograph at the Library of Congress, also found at the Wikipedia from the Wikimedia Commons:The Evangelical Immanuel Church is seen just below the castle to the left

Königstein im Taunus : Clovis I : The Rothschilds : Frankfurt : Deutsche Bank : Financial Center of the European Union

Posted on February 17, 2009
Königstein has an interesting history which reaches back into ancient legend. As noted at the Wikipedia:"Shrouded in legend, the town's founding date is unknown. The best known legend says that it was the Merovingian King Chlodwig (466-511) [Clovis I], who had a castle built on a mountain and a chapel in a neighbouring dale, who also founded the town in thanks for a prophecy that came his way

Yana Fedoruk and Vladimir Popolzin in Königstein im Taunus at the Evangelische Immanuelkirche : Coincidence or Destiny?

Posted on February 17, 2009
Are there coincidences or is there an invisible web in which everything is meshed?I had cause to think about this as regards my previous posting about Yana Fedoruk and Vladimir Popolzin at the Parkschlösschen in Traben-Trarbach.After making that posting I ran across a link online the next day which indicated that Fedoruk and Popolzin had played in Königstein im Taunus at the Evangelische

Cartographia: Mapping Civilisations by Vincent Virga and the Library of Congress is a "Must Have Book" for Library Shelves

Posted on February 17, 2009
We are a bit late on this, but Cartographia: Mapping Civilisations by Vincent Virga and the Library of Congress is a "Must Have Book" for your library shelves. For example, it features the Waldseemüller Map, the first map to ever use the term "America":"Waldseemüller map is the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia...

The Origin of the Cult of Horus in Predynastic Egypt : The Falcon was the Symbol of the Pharaohs on Earth & in Heaven - As Above, So Below

Posted on February 17, 2009
The so-called "Followers of Horus" were the people who first occupied Egypt and who created Pharaonic Civilization, starting in the predynastic era. Horus, the Pharaonic falcon, was not only their "God of the Heavens" but also served as the symbol of the first Pharaonic kings, the Pharaohs, and their predecessors...

Yana Fedoruk on the Accordion : A New Talent in a Pleasing Performance

Posted on February 16, 2009
We had the pleasure of seeing and hearing the new accordian talent Yana Fedoruk live on the accordion yesterday at the Parkschlösschen in Traben-Trarbach at one of its cultural evenings. She was accompanied by teacher, composer, arranger and concert accordionist Vladimir Popolzin who introduced the program, which Fedoruk played from memory of course: Blue Moon - Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart, Love

Scribd Embed of Phaistos Disc: An Ancient Enigma Solved : Two corroborative Old Elamite scripts deciphered using Phaistos Disc Greek Syllabic Values

Posted on February 14, 2009
This posting is self-explanatory and is part of a series of postings that will appear periodically on LawPundit relating to critical questions of evidence in fields of academic research other than law. Historical questions are too important to be left solely in the decision-making ambit of scholars who have no training in evidence and whose treatment of available facts can be quite

Archaeology and Evidence : The Norse Pharaohs : Astronomical Decipherments Relating to Tanum Hierakonpolis Nazca Sahara Mesopotamia Middle East

Posted on February 14, 2009
The Norse Pharaohs is a book that I wrote ten years ago as part of my series of publications on Origins: Studies in the History of Mankind and its Languages. There was also an accompanying CD-ROM.In The Norse Pharaohs I present decipherments for various megalithic, rock art and other ancient locations where there is generally evidence of the influx or influence of ancient seafarers: Tanum (Sweden

Lingospot In-Text Content Discovery and Clipmarks ClipCast Widget added to LawPundit : New Cutting Edge Technologies for Blogs and Websites

Posted on February 13, 2009
You want to post clips to your blog immediately? You want to alert the world to what you have written, published or created - writing, art, photography, video, etc.? Permanently? In a portable anywhere-embeddable ClipCast widget? We explain the technology here...

Bloggers, promote your law blog by nominating your blog for inclusion in USLaw.com's Law Blog Directory and RSS Reader. Benefits described.