Those who take police accountability seriously had reason to celebrate this month when Amber Guyger, the police officer who walked into 26-year-old Botham Jean’s apartment, mistook it for her own, and fired a fatal shot into him, was found guilty of murder and...
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10/11/19 Joe Lauria on The New Yorker’s Partisan Disinformation on Biden and Ukraine
Scott interviews Joe Lauria about his recent Consortium News piece calling out the failures of The New Yorker's Jane Mayer and the rest of the mainstream media's "investigative journalists" to actually do any investigative journalism with respect to the Ukraine...
The Letter That CEOs Ought to Be Writing
The mass shootings in August at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and at a bar in Dayton, Ohio, prompted the CEOs of more than a hundred large and small corporations to write a letter to the members of the U.S. Senate about “a public health crisis that demands urgent...
VICTORY: After Viral Backlash, Judge Rescinds Jail Sentence For Man Who Missed Jury Duty
West Palm Beach, FL — Jury duty, like voting, is considered by many Americans as one’s civic duty. But as one young man from Florida would learn, jury duty is anything but voluntary. He overslept, missed jury duty, and a judge threw the book at him, sentencing him to...
Federal Reserve’s Latest Bailouts More Proof Bad Times Ahead
Since September 17, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has pumped billions of dollars into the repurchasing (repo) market, the first such intervention since 2009. The Fed has announced that it will continue to inject as much as 75 billion dollars a day into the repo...
How Rent Control Threatens the American Dream
There is a very real shortage of affordable housing across America’s most dynamic areas, but rent control is an ineffective solution to this problem. It’s no secret that many parts of the country are experiencing a housing affordability crisis. Homelessness is...
The Worst Kind of Employee Imaginable
This is one of those stories that sounds like fiction and totally made up. But it actually happened. Over a long period of time. The warning signs was flashing as red as they could, but complex internal work relationships kept the employee hired far longer than...
The Impossible Burden of the US Regulatory State
Following the infamous Enron and Arthur Anderson scandal of the early 2000's our wise overlords enacted legislation to prevent history from repeating itself. The overreaction of Congress, to a couple of bad actors committing things that were already illegal, is a...
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