Dave Oedel
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Mercer University law professor Dave Oedel studies and teaches constitutional law, intellectual property, contracts, client counseling and the regulation of core economic activities such as transportation and banking.
OEDEL: Entrenchment or experience?
Jabs have issued from across the political spectrum, from Erick Erickson on the right to the Telegraph’s editors on the left, about the line-up of well-worn, old-guard folks standing for election to lead the newly-consolidating Macon-Bibb government. The roster includes, alphabetically, Joe Allen...
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OEDEL: Religion and schools
Houston County schools chief Robin Hines recited settled Supreme Court authority when he said school officials can’t constitutionally lead prayers or appeal to God at Houston’s graduation exercises May 24-25. As the Telegraph’s editorial noted May 5, the court has outlawed clergy...
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OEDEL: What ‘truth’ did suspected Boston Marathon bomber tweet?
Five hours after the Boston bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cryptically unveiled hints of the bombing brothers’ “message” when he tweeted, “Ain’t no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people.” Aside from referencing the bombings with disarming coolness...
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OEDEL: Another pedestrian down
Five-year-old Ta’Miya Watson didn’t survive her brush with a Bibb school bus turning off Bloomfield Road onto Virginia Drive last Monday afternoon.
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OEDEL: About Boston
What happened in Boston last Monday was something bigger than two bombs exploding. About 26,000 people ran 26 miles at various speeds, almost all of those paces being very quick by most folks’ measures. About a half million spectators, a crowd 20 times larger than the group of runners, watched...
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OEDEL: Extra benefits as largesse
In The Telegraph, former Macon mayor and current mayoral candidate C. Jack Ellis, objected to my sideways reference to Veterans Administration benefits and Social Security disability benefits as possible forms of governmental “largesse” on which, absent Medicaid expansion, an individual...
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OEDEL: An alternative to Medicaid expansion
Last week, I outlined a choice now confronting states: should they expand Medicaid by about half to cover many poor and lower-income citizens not now eligible for Medicaid?
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OEDEL: Should Medicaid grow?
Should Medicaid grow as if it were on super-sizing steroids? It’s a question that states such as Georgia and Florida are pondering these days, thanks to one aspect of the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision last year.
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OEDEL: Profiling pets and people
A week after two pit bull dogs severely injured a Macon man in a wheelchair, another pit bull ripped up a 5-year-old Macon boy. The evidence remains spotty about which dogs are most likely to tear people up, though pit-bull types are routinely near the top of most lists. In part because some owners...
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OEDEL: Junebug, Clayton and Boo, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ similarities
At the end of Harper Lee’s 1960 book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Boo Radley, an apparently crazy recluse, lashes out at a figure of twisted authority, Bob Ewell. Boo intervened to kill Bob while Bob was savagely breaking the arm of a young boy, Jem Finch.
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OEDEL: Expand the Sequester
On the “Tonight” show in the ’60s, former Illinois Sen. Everett Dirksen is said to have quipped, “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.” The federal sequester would cut more than a trillion dollars from federal spending...
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