Jury Summons

I thought I should let you know that I have a new project in the works.  I've just started a new site over at http://judgeright.wordpress.com
You can see some of my older work at http://judgeright.blogspot.com which has been essentially abandoned and of course, this VOX site is the one I've been most active on lately.  If this project works, I hope to have started a small, knowledgeable community of nine justices to discuss current events in the news.  A self appointed think tank to judge ideologies or worldview, if you will, based on morality and historical consequences of policies.  Have a look.   

I've been featured on VOX's front page with an article entitled "The World does NOT Hate America" and I've had another article reach nearly a thousand hits in a single day called, "Liberals Redefining Hate"  This to say that I am capable of drawing an audience and want to use some of your posts/articles as arguments or briefs.  I do ask that we keep the language clean and respectful to make knowledge acceptable.  Other than that you don't have to do anything different than what you're doing now.  If you make the pool, I will simply cross post the relevant articles with links back to the jurors' sites.  The alternative is to give jurors authority to author directly to the JudgRight blog albeit, limited to the pages section rather than the front page.  As the votes come in, the most effective articles are posted on the front page as majority and dissenting briefs.  Current jurors are samples of how your blogs are to be featured.

Issues are raised in articles written by Dennis Prager, Michelle Malkin and others (conservatives) and Howard Zenn and others (liberals) as though presenting their cases from opposite sides on the same issues.  The jurors then submit their opinions and vote for the best of the pool for majority opinion and dissenting opinion, building an archive of verdicts.  Comments open to anyone with limited moderation to keep them clear of spam and abuse.  The general purpose being, we encourage people to be informed and think through major issues of our times and in order to do that, generate traffic to our varied websites.

UPDATE:

[I have put the same information on my StumbleUpon page to widen my search for jurors.  Feel free to spread the word.  I am collecting applications for the moment and we’ll see how many want to jump in.  If there are very many, I may set up ‘lower’ courts with 5 and 3 members in keeping with circuits and whatever is beneath the circuit courts.  Everyone is eligible until further notice.]

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Any bloggers interested in participating should private message me with the following information.

Your First Name:

(will be used as site ID.  Example: Judge Bob)

Your Site URL:

(will be used to link back to your site)

Estimate of attention/time/wordcount you can dedicate to this project.  (Example:  Minimum 400 words per issue raised, 1 issue per week)

We vote on which issues to take up, so I am looking for a group with like interests (politics, religion, strong opinions, and odd behaviors) and varied backgrounds to provide a wide array of perspectives to draw from.