Articles written by Pat Nolan

Pat Nolan|Sep 8, 2014

“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”— Humpty Dumpty in Alice through the Looking Glass The indictment of Governor Rick Perry should send a shudder down the spine of every American. The vindictive special prosecutor used Humpty Dumpty’s logic to say statutes say the opposite of their plain meaning in order to charge the governor with a crime for exercising his lawful veto. If a popular sitting governor can be indicted on such a flimsy basis, then every one of us is vulnerable. The facts are strai...