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Daily Archives: December 13th, 2013

Friday Night Music, being rich is the best defense edition

I've been sporadic about this lately, I know, but when I read this article, an old Bob Dylan song came to mind. First, the gist of the article: 16-year old Ethan Couch was driving drunk at THREE times the legal limit and had Valium in his system. He plowed into four people going 70 miles […]

Yet more on “free trade”

Here's an example of what we'll be seeing more of, if the U.S. gets what it wants in the TPP “free trade” talks. Tobacco companies are pushing back against a worldwide rise in antismoking laws, using a little-noticed legal strategy to delay or block regulation. The industry is warning countries that their tobacco laws violate […]