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If you’re the typical U.S. consumer you just shelled out money to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Collectively Americans spend multiple billions each year on candy, flowers, jewelry or some other gift to spark romance with a loved one.
Historians agree the celebration likely began in ancient Roman times with the mid-February fertility festival called Lupercalia.
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Did we learn nothing from the so-called crack cocaine plague of the 80’s and 90’s? For those with fuzzy memories, the media back then erroneously and breathlessly declared that crack use had reached epidemic proportions.
Newsweek declared crack was “the most addictive drug known to man!” The full truth would eventually come out. Crack was only half the problem.
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If you carry too much cash the federal government can take it away from you. Yep, you read that right. If an agency, like the Transportation Safety Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration or U.S. Customs and Border Protection finds someone carrying large amounts of cash they can confiscate it by simply declaring it to be “suspicious.” This is not a rare occurrence.
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Are you among the countless Americans who feel so passionately about the upcoming presidential election that you wrote a check to your favorite candidate? But if your candidate dropped out of the race can you get your money back?
At one time there were a whopping 29 democrats running for president . Now only twelve remain. Collectively those candidates amassed hundreds of millions of dollars in donations. Some from large contributors like corporations, some from political action committees, many from small individual contributors, maybe just like you. [Read more…]
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January 2020 ushered in a unique new law in New York State that abolished cash bail for defendants arrested for non-violent crimes. Activists in the bail reform movement called it landmark legislation that stops judges from locking up the poor while they await trial simply because they can’t afford bail.
Others, many in law enforcement, are calling it “a disgrace” and say the politicians forgot to consider a most important point: public safety. [Read more…]
This column might win me no fans on college campuses but there is something that must be said.
Universities across the country are unconstitutionally punishing those accused of sex-based misconduct with no regard to the civil rights guarantee of due process. They say they are acting lawfully under the so-called Title IX law of 1972. But the meaning of that law has been twisted over the years by a tortured Victorian-era school of thought almost beyond comprehension. [Read more…]
If you’re the typical U.S. consumer you just shelled out money to celebrate Valentine’s Day. ...
Did we learn nothing from the so-called crack cocaine plague of the 80’s and ...
If you carry too much cash the federal government can take it away from you. ...
Are you among the countless Americans who feel so passionately about the upcoming presidential election ...
Photo courtesy: Alpha Stock Images January 2020 ushered in a unique new law in New York ...
