Opinions
Outgoing Justice Benjamin strikes a libertarian chord
MORGANTOWN – Outgoing state Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin has always had a libertarian lean.
Three strikes and Ed Kohout is out
Edward R. Kohout has been suspended at least three times in the course of his legal career: once by the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University in Birmingham and twice by our Supreme Court of Appeals, this last time permanently. In case you're wondering, he was suspended from law school after being caught selling books he'd stolen from the university bookstore.
Internet access necessary for growth
PARKERSBURG – While the energy sector has served as a powerful engine of growth here in West Virginia since the Industrial Revolution, a new economic driver has made its way to the Mountain State: the internet.
We're not indestructible, yet
Powered exoskeletons to make us stronger, brain implants to make us smarter –what will they think of next?
Good Gravy!
EDITOR'S NOTE: This editorial originally appeared in the Nov. 16, 2007, edition of The West Virginia Record. Also, both cases mentioned in the following editorial eventually were settled out-of-court and dismissed.
A chance to make West Virginia great again
“Well, well, well.” That's what the chap said when he saw three holes in the ground.
Trump won, and I don't understand why you don't understand
CHARLESTON – Since election night when the impossible first started appearing possible, I've seen countless questions of "How did this happen" (often in all caps on social media).
Trap, trash and trick: How lawyers win with 'junk' science
WASHINGTON – Despite a recent scolding by more than 100 Nobel laureates for its science-denying campaign against perfectly healthful and environmentally beneficial genetically modified foods, Greenpeace and others with a financial interest in misleading the public are no more likely to change their ways than are the personal injury lawyers now using their own junk science to manipulate St. Louis juries and drive multimillion-dollar verdicts with groundless allegations that talcum powde
Some politicians lie, because they have to
It's called the narrative. Honest people would call it a lie, but idea-less politicians and demagoguing media call it “the narrative.” It's the story a thoughtless politician tells to make themselves look good and their opponents look bad. It has little or no basis in fact and is often the polar opposite of the actual truth.
Could anyone wish that Darrell McGraw were still state attorney general?
Everyone prefers good times to bad times, but there is one downside to the upside: If the good times last long enough, you can forget how bad the bad times were, you can start to take the good times for granted, you can get bored with the good times, and you can even start to remember the bad times fondly and long for their return.
A vision for the future at Rock Creek Development Park
CHARLESTON – For the past 30 years, I have looked at thousands of acres of flat land at the Hobet mine site in Boone and Lincoln counties and thought about the enormous possibilities those acres could bring about for West Virginia – if we ever had the opportunity.
Millionaire Reynolds says he isn’t
What is it with Democrats and their inability to call things by their right names? Theft isn't theft. It's income redistribution. Riots aren't riots. They're protests. Even when it's a good thing, Democrats feel obliged to call it something else or deny that it is what it is. Like being a millionaire.
Morrisey deserves praise for defending W.Va. coal miners
CHARLESTON – For the last four years, no one has done more to defend our jobs, our industry and our West Virginia way of life than Patrick Morrisey, as our Attorney General.
Are you tired of being CONned?
The multi-year effort of two Illinois hospital operators to block a rival group from obtaining a permit to build a new facility in their service area finally failed this year when a state appellate panel unanimously ruled against them.
Forced arbitration is a rip-off
CHARLESTON – Earlier this month, an editorial in The West Virginia Record described attempts to restore consumers’ right to hold criminal corporations accountable in court as nothing more than a money grab for trial lawyers.
If Blankenship can be railroaded, so can you
In two weeks, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond will hear arguments on former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship's appeal of his misdemeanor conviction for conspiracy to willfully violate mine safety standards.
Our fight against an unchecked bureaucracy
CHARLESTON — Did Congress give the EPA the power to make states like West Virginia change the way we get our electricity?
Clean Power Plan won't do anything for the climate
Dear Editor, Judges considering arguments against the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan (http://wvrecord.com/stories/511013695-federal-court-hears-arguments-in-epa-clean-power-plan-case) must recognize that the rules will have no measurable impact on climate.
The Obama Administration's last-minute attacks on arbitration
Trial lawyers don't like arbitration, because arbitration reduces money-making opportunities for trial lawyers.
Common ground found during drug crisis
WASHINGTON – Nearly every day, we see another story in the news about an overdose in West Virginia.