Justice Antonin Scalia added a stellar new entry to the annals of wickedly entertaining U.S. Supreme Court dissents on Thursday. You didn’t have to read between the lines. You didn’t need to know the ...

In Part 17 of this "Thinking Clearly and Speaking Freely" series, I argued that free markets help combat Cancel Culture while, conversely, expansion of government control and intervention supports ...

There’s debate among Sullivan County commissioners as to whether or not they understand their own rules of conducting business. And some have argued they don’t believe the Sullivan County Commission ...

Robert’s Rules of Order was first published in 1876. And today it continues to influence many organizations that use the book, including colleges, universities and academic organizations. Princeton ...

Once again, President Bush has confounded his critics by doing what he said he would do. He has nominated to the Supreme Court someone he believes will not make law from the bench, but interpret laws ...

Last week supporters and opponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act anxiously awaited the Supreme Court's ruling on the law's individual health insurance mandate. Imagine their ...

During my tenure as president of one of the nonprofit boards I served on, there was a dispute between board members and the executive director over something the director proposed to do. He thought – ...

Last night's school board meeting was an interesting one. Robert's Rules of Order governs the school board (and many other bodies) but I've never seen it come into play quite so prominently during a ...

The film "Mr. Chairman: The Fundamentals of Parliamentary Law" discusses the importance of parliamentary procedure and the rules that govern meetings. It emphasizes the role of the chairman, the need ...