Jet’s Design Limited Tear’s Damage
The Southwest Airlines jet that peeled open at 34,000 feet frightened passengers with a loud bang and forced them to breath through oxygen masks, but the plane performed as designed to limit damage, federal investigators said Tuesday. Flight 2294 from Nashville to Baltimore lost pressure Monday night when a 14-by-17-inch rectangle of the Boeing 737-300′s [...]
White-Collar Cons Ask The Pros
Wealthy first-time convicts are turning to a novel cottage industry: prison coaches with advice on what it’s like inside the big house. Feeding off of notorious financial scandals, consultants school anxious inmates for fees of up to $20,000. White-collar convicts such as Martha Stewart and Bernard Madoff sought their help to learn about inmate life. [...]
House Democrats Aim to Tax the Rich
Taxing the rich may be popular with many Americans, but some experts warn that a proposed tax on the wealthy to pay for an overhaul of health care could be bad economic medicine. House Democrats included a surtax on families making more than $350,000 in a sweeping health care bill unveiled Tuesday – the latest [...]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a Question of Eugenics
Here’s what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine: “Frankly I had thought that at the time (Roe v. Wade) was decided,” Ginsburg told her interviewer, Emily Bazelon, “there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” The [...]
Family Travail Gave Brooke Hogan Something To Sing About
Brooke Hogan, whose parents went through a bitter divorce, says some good has come out of the chaos. For one, it helped inspire her newest album, “The Redemption,” hitting stores Tuesday 7/21. “Have you heard how crazy my family is lately? I definitely had enough to write about,” says the daughter of retired wrestler Hulk [...]
How to Handle Sonia
Republicans have been given fair warning. Should GOP senators treat Sonia Sotomayor as contemptuously as Democrats treated Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, they should expect Hispanic hostility for a generation. The chutzpah of this Beltway crowd does not cease to amaze. They archly demand that conservatives accord a self-described “affirmative action baby” from [...]
Health-Care Competition
The statist establishment would love a single-payer health-care system like Canada’s if it were politically achievable. Barack Obama said that if we were starting from scratch, single payer is what he’d back. But, thankfully, Americans are still libertarian enough to cringe at turning the medical system entirely over to government. So with single payer out [...]
Lawfirms Not Immune to Economic Downturn
Overshadowed by layoffs in Florida’s construction, services and retail industries, lawyers are increasingly feeling the impact of the state’s worst recession in more than three decades. Tampa-based Holland & Knight has found itself listed among the nation’s top 10 biggest law firms with the most layoffs in recent months, having shed 70 attorneys and 243 [...]
Fresh Faces Dominating State House Races
Republican candidates dominate fundraising efforts in the House as the top hopefuls try to secure open seats, according to campaign finance reports through the month of June. Nineteen of the top 20 fundraisers seeking House seats are Republicans. The lone Democrat in that list is House Democratic Leader Franklin Sands, who ranked 19, according to [...]
Snakes on a Glade: Senator Nelson Presses for Everglades Serpent Hunt
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has an explosive idea for dealing with the problem of large snakes in the Everglades after one killed a child this month: shoot them. Nelson, who has stuck to his guns about the need to rid the Everglades of Burmese python after one suffocated a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom, took [...]
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