Chris Christie’s Justice Problems
PHOTO: Gage Skidmore In a nearly two-hour press conference yesterday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie attempted to take accountability for #Bridgegate (or, if you prefer, #Bridgeghazi) while...
View ArticleSexual Assault Ignored in New Anti-Trafficking Rules
By Derrick C. Goode, U.S. Air Force Human trafficking is a little-known and devastating feature of the U.S. military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Third-Country Nationals (TCNs) from developing...
View ArticleSCOTUS Opinion Update: Drug Dealing, Patent Stealing, and Crazy Pilots
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), decided three cases this week, and one case last week, all of which shed light on several pressing questions in your life and mine. For instance, just...
View ArticleSpoiled Brat Sues Parents, Probably
Photo credit: via Flickr user JR, http://flic.kr/p/5ScZZL The latest viral news story seems to have a perennial favorite of the American media consumer: a young, entitled woman making big mistakes in...
View ArticleSenate Rejects Iconic Civil Rights Lawyer
The United States Senate failed on Wednesday to confirm Debo Adegbile as the assistant attorney general for civil rights. Adegbile’s nomination will not proceed to the Senate floor for a vote, because...
View ArticleHobby Lobby’s Poorly Crafted 401(k) Plan Stirs Controversy
It’s delicious irony that Hobby Lobby’s 401(k) plan invests in pharmaceutical companies that provide contraception, while it’s been making headlines, and history, over the past year because it doesn’t...
View ArticleTorture, Fort Hood, and the Legacy of War
By United States Air Force photo by Major Francisco G. Hamm [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons “My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your...
View ArticleThe NFL’s Domestic Violence Witch Hunt
As I watch the NFL’s player punishment apparatus spinning ever faster as it hands out random punishments to players who have perpetrated domestic violence and child abuse, I think of what Rodimus Prime...
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