Andrew W. Barbin, PC

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Answering a calling on my heart tonight..... https://andrewbarbin.blogspot.com//calling-if-we-but-liste

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C.S. Lewis, Abolition of Man

Website had been down when ISP was sold and I did not act to save the content soon enough... It is back in an amended form, not entirely as I would prefer aesthetically, but the content is back and though not as wide as a church door nor as deep as a well it will do it is enough..... www.awbpclaw.com

May one be pardon'd and retain the offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself... Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence. What then? what rests? Hamlet Act III, Sc. 3)

Verdict $600k prior recovery $328K Net $928k https://photos.app.goo.gl/d6Vb27MXNhUkURqn7

Babb Case status: the $5.5 million dollar employment case verdict for Dr. Babb remains on appeal pending decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Count on an issue related to jury charges in cases involving at-will employment issues. the watched pot has not yet boiled. Argument Video: https://youtu.be/b3Fed60hTmo?t=251

Philadelphia Trial Update: Mainline Attorney the late George DeAngelo ducked depositions, died 4 years after being sued but before trial, and the attorney for his estate asserted the Deadman's Rule to preclude evidence. While he was still alive, he produced a so-called accounting, and returned (without release or other agreement) $328k which he euphemistically characterized as having been "overcharged." The judge allowed all claims (Breach of Contract, Negligence, Breach of ...Fiduciary Obligations and Conversion) to go to the jury against George, his son David DeAngelo (with whom he practiced and the Firm DeAngelo and Eurell. The jury found that my client knew or should have known of the actionable conduct regarding David and the Firm, prior to the latest date for the statute of limitations. They found that all of the claims against George were timely and rendered a verdict against George on each count. In addition to the $328k previously recovered, the jury awarded a verdict of $600k For a net $928k. Now to deal with the insurer and convert a verdict into something that can be disbursed and spent......

"I'm not a hawk and I'm not a dove. I just don't want my country to be a pigeon." Scoop Jackson (D) Washington State One of the last real Democrats....

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Not over til the last vote is counted. Military ballots and Republicans who requested a mail ballot but threw it out when they decided to come election day not counted til the 10th. These should break for Trump. Whether by enough unknown....

The Prescience of Daniel Webster Patriot Statesman I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever. Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 y...ears, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world. We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land -- nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well ; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters. They think there need be but little restraint upon themselves. Their notion of the public interest is apt to be quite closely connected with their own exercise of authority. They may not, indeed, always understand their own motives. The love of power may sink too deep in their hearts even for their own scrutiny, and may pass with themselves for mere patriotism and benevolence. Daniel Webster, Speech delivered at Niblo’s Saloon, New York (March, 15, 1837).

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. But as I grow older I grow calm. I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be-that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace. The other day my dream was pictured to my mind. It was evening. I was walking homeward on Pennsylvania Avenue near... the Treasury, and as I looked beyond Sherman's Statue to the west the sky was aflame with scarlet and crimson from the setting sun. But, like the note of downfall in Wagner's opera, below the skyline there came from little globes the pallid discord of the electric lights. And I thought to myself the Gotterdammerung will end, and from those globes clustered like evil eggs will come the new masters of the sky. It is like the time in which we live. But then I remembered the faith that I partly have expressed, faith in a universe not measured by our fears, a universe that has thought and more than thought inside of it, and as I gazed, after the sunset and above the electric lights there shone the stars. This too shall pass...

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. But as I grow older I grow calm. I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be-that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace. The other day my dream was pictured to my mind. It was evening. I was walking homeward on Pennsylvania Avenue near... the Treasury, and as I looked beyond Sherman's Statue to the west the sky was aflame with scarlet and crimson from the setting sun. But, like the note of downfall in Wagner's opera, below the skyline there came from little globes the pallid discord of the electric lights. And I thought to myself the Gotterdammerung will end, and from those globes clustered like evil eggs will come the new masters of the sky. It is like the time in which we live. But then I remembered the faith that I partly have expressed, faith in a universe not measured by our fears, a universe that has thought and more than thought inside of it, and as I gazed, after the sunset and above the electric lights there shone the stars. This too shall pass...

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today. Thomas Sowell

"It is not possible to repeal the law of supply and demand, of cause and effect, or of action and reaction. Value is a matter of opinion. An act of Congress has small jurisdiction over what men think." Calvin Coolidge Says July 29, 1930

Let us use this time of forced inactivity to Renew What is Essential to Our Paths Forward We believed once in the victory of truth; but we do not now. ... We believed in our fellow men; we do not now. We believed in goodness; we do not now. We were zealous for justice; but we are not so now. We trusted in the power of kindness and peaceableness; but we do not now. We were capable of enthusiasm; but, we are not so now. To get through the shoals of life more easily we have lightened our craft, Throwing overboard what we thought could be spared. But it was really our stock of food and drink of which we deprived ourselves; our craft is now easier to manage, but we ourselves are in decline. Schweitzer, The Light Within, at 21-22 (1959), quoting Schweitzer, Memoirs of Childhood and Youth, at 73-74 (1955). #TogetherWeCan

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Do not rush into litigation which can be honorably avoided. No city prospers under siege.

I shall stand by the Union, and by all who stand by it. I shall do justice to the whole country...in all I say, and act for the good of the whole country in all I do. I mean to stand upon the Constitution. I need no other platform. I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, my God's, and Truth's. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American; and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of... my career. I mean to do this with absolute disregard of personal consequences. What are the personal consequences? What is the individual man, with all the good or evil that may betide him, in comparison with the good or evil which may befall a great country, and in the midst of great transactions which concern that country's fate? Let the consequences be what they will, I am careless. No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer, or if he fall, in the defense of the liberties and constitution of his country. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment Independence now, and Independence forever. Whipple, Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson, Faneuil Hall, Boston (August 2, 1826), at 169-70 (1894).

Revels, banquets, and repose, were invented for effeminate courtiers; but toil, disquietude, and arms alone were designed for those whom the world calls knights-errant. Cervantes, Don Quixote

Diligence is the mother of success, and in many important causes experience hath shown that the assiduity of the solicitor hath brought a very doubtful suit to a very fortunate issue, . Don Quixote de la Mancha

One who has not lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life’s mountain top experiences. Only by losing yourself in this way can you really find yourself. Richard Nixon, In the Arena, 120 (1990)

I am find that I am recalling more and more frequently - a story which heard when I was a boy; It has really had a great deal of influence in shaping my views on church questions. It was in a Southern Methodist church that I heard it. The minister said that there was a mill and that many people brought wheat to the mill by several roads. When they arrived with the wheat - some coming by one road and some by another - some over the hill and some along the stream - the miller... never asked them by what road they came, but simply whether the wheat was good. If we are one in the essentials we can afford to be charitable towards each other in the non-essentials. William Jennings Bryan, Democracy’s Appeal To Culture, Speech to Syracuse Alumni Assn., January 27, 1905, in The Real Bryan, at 30 (1908).

"While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to him only in this case they are answerable." George Washington letter to Benedict Arnold September 14, 1775

"It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan." Calvin Coolidge, Foundations of the Republic at 68