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Facts of life versus politics, hype, opinion & “scandal”

With all the stuff stirred up over Hillary Clinton’s emails–and the hysteria spilling off the pages of usually respectable newspapers–it’s a spritz of tonic to read this terse factual  sentence from the National Law Journal. To repeat, “law.” That is, … Continue reading

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Why sue? To hurt businesses for hurting us

I thought of one of my early posts — Why Sue? It’s Political –– as I read Wil S. Hylton’s New Yorker article, “A Bug In The System” (February 2, 2015). Hylton’s story concerns food-borne bacteria that, thanks to an … Continue reading

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Ferguson MO’s traffic fines & jail conspiracy

An excellent New York Times article by Monica Davey about the until-now secret horror imposed upon citizens, too often black, by municipalities that derive their income from bogus traffic stops, subsequent fines and never-ending punitive measures including imprisonment: Ferguson One … Continue reading

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