July / August 2002

The main problem with becoming a lawyer is not lawyer jokes; it is going to law school. I remember my fears. Most college seniors who wanted to get into my school were rejected. Those who got in nursed the general suspicion that they might not be as smart as the rest of the people who made it. The unspoken goal was to appear smarter than you were.

When Lt. Col. Martha McSally takes to the skies, she is the embodiment of a modern-day hero: courageous, selfless, and loyal to God and country. She is a patriot who has willingly put her life on the line to protect American interests abroad-a perfect example of how far women have come in their fight for equality.

Economist Milton Friedman claims school vouchers, by stirring market competition, will create more efficient schools. Whether or not he's right, there's every reason to think vouchers will produce more equity in public education.

In dealing with pirates and terrorists the newly formed United States of America reaffirmed its nonreligious status. Unlike governments of the past, the American Founders set up a government divorced from religion. The establishment of a secular government did not require a reflection to themselves about its origin; they knew this as an unspoken given.

Jehovah's Witnesses are no strangers to Supreme Court litigation. They defended their constitutional rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion in the U.S. Supreme Court more than 45 times in the years between 1938 and 1945 alone.