Our financial information research company is going to be temporarily adding 15 top tier legal minds to our staff in order to conduct an intensive due diligence and legal research project in Washington DC. We are hiring individuals who are independent and can work from their home office and local law libraries yet can still be accountable to a team and are available to begin … [Read more...] about Working On a Fake Job
The Taser Problem in a Nutshell
The increased use—and abuse—of Tasers by police has been the subject of some recent controversy. Kip Esquire sums it up perfectly: A big part of the problem with tasers is that they were originally marketed as a substitute for guns, but have become a substitute for exertion. Tasers are, increasingly, not used to save lives but to merely make cops' lives easier. … [Read more...] about The Taser Problem in a Nutshell
Those Other People Should Pay Their Employees Better
Radley Balko discusses the hypocrisy of the living wage movement. … [Read more...] about Those Other People Should Pay Their Employees Better
Tremors of Terrors
I'm not sure what to make of this latest busted terrorist plot in Germany: BERLIN - Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday. ... Sudwestfunk televison, citing unnamed security … [Read more...] about Tremors of Terrors
Evil Lawmaking: License Suspension
Continuing my series of articles on bad, sloppy, or downright evil lawmaking, I'd like to talk a little bit about how much states love to suspend or revoke people's driver's licenses. A suspended license is a branch of a problem I mentioned earlier: Free Punishment. A suspended license is just a database entry and a form letter. It probably costs the state less than a buck, … [Read more...] about Evil Lawmaking: License Suspension