Dave Oedel
OEDEL: The constitutionality of data mining
When Edward Snowden exposed the blanket data-mining of all Verizon calls, and it was also revealed that the federal government has access to the major Internet servers, some expressed outrage. There’s good reason to question whether it’s appropriate for government to mine such massive data sets...
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About Dave Oedel
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.
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OEDEL: Is higher education worth it?
When responding to questions about whether higher education is worth it, I’d be considered traitorous as a tenured law professor at an expensive, remarkably good law school, if I didn’t insist that higher education has intrinsic value.
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OEDEL: Subsidizing mobility
Surprised that Democratic former Macon Mayor C. Jack Ellis and conservative pundit Erick Erickson are singing the same tune? They appear to be doing just that by implicitly championing big public subsidies for transportation to connect Macon passengers with bigger cities.
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OEDEL: Our public trough
The so-called “farm bill” is moving higher on the congressional agenda -- after having been kicked down the road in 2012 and then extended in 2013 along the lines of the 2008 farm bill as part of “fiscal cliff” avoidance. The farm bill will soon occupy the legislative...
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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...
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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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