Trump, Business Corruption and a “Horrible Law”
Wall Street Journal, When You’re Called to Your Life’s Work:
Callings
come in many ways, some unexpected. ... A chance encounter with an
elderly homeless man led physician Lara Weinstein to her work treating
marginal populations. “It was almost like a transcendental experience,”
says Dr. Weinstein, a family doctor in Philadelphia.
A network of Australian border security officials is allegedly working for organised criminals, including drug and tobacco smugglers, in the most serious corruption scandal to ever hit the nation's border agencies
Smuggling
’Sick and asphyxiating’ – why we live in an age of anxiety Guardian
Defense bill would require women to register for draft:
Like the Bourbons, the Legislators of East Attitude appear to have learned nothing and forgotten nothing:
Women would have to register for the draft under an amendment added to an annual defense bill Wednesday.“If we want equality in this country, if we want women to be treated precisely like men are treated and that they should not be discriminated against, then we should support a universal conscription,” Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) said.
What do people actually do in coffee shops when they seem to be working?
Surprise: Beyoncé’s Ivy Park Collection is Being Made in Sweatshops The Fashion Law
Billionaire Ken Griffin: ‘We are more and more in a winner-take-all world’ Business Insider
The Herald's state political editor Sean Nicholls has told a defamation trial he did not intend readers to think that Nick Di Girolamo was appointed to a government board because his company donated $10,000 to a Nationals MP. Mr Di Girolamo, a lawyer and businessman with links to the Liberal Party and the Obeid family, issuing Fairfax Media, publisher of the Herald, for defamation over a series of articles published between December 2012 and August 2013. Capitalism in all its glory Nick Di Girolamos
SOCIALISM IN ALL ITS GLORY: Venezuela Unleashes Tanks as 4 Killed, 1,200 Arrested. With empty store shelves and no toilet paper
Hadn’t realized Karen Hinton, of Chevron-Ecuador suit PR fame, was (now-exiting) flack for NYC Mayor De Blasio [New York Post; Jack Fowler/NRO]
Trifecta: Trump, The New York Times and sexIs reporting on Donald Trump’s personal life fair game?
Kay Bell, Trump says he won’t release his taxes before election
Robert Wood, Flip-Flop Or Not, Trump Is Still Right About Taxes. If you hold every possible position at once, you are bound to be right.
- Al.com, Trump's Tax Returns Could Contain Clues to Wealth, Donations and ... Golf?
- Bloomberg, Trump Says Doesn't Expect to Release Tax Returns by November
- Crain's New York Business, Here's Why Trump Doesn't Want You to See His Tax Returns
- Fortune, Here's What Might Be Hiding in Donald Trump's Tax Returns
- David Herzig (Valparaiso), What If Trump Becomes President While His Tax Returns Are Under IRS Audit?
- National Review, Trump’s Refusal to Release Tax Returns Is a Ticking Time Bomb for the GOP
- New York Times, What We Can Learn From Donald Trump’s Unreleased Tax Returns
- New York Times, What We Can Learn From Donald Trump’s Unreleased Tax Returns
- Slate, Trump Won’t Release Tax Returns, Citing Audit That Conveniently Won’t Be Finished Before November
- USA Today, Romney: Trump's Refusal to Release Tax Returns 'Disqualifying'
- Wall Street Journal, Furor Grows Over Trump’s Withheld Tax Returns
- Wall Street Journal, In Break From Tradition, Donald Trump Rules Out Releasing Tax Returns Ahead of Election
- Washington Post, Donald Trump Is Building a Giant, Beautiful Wall Between America and His Tax Returns
- Washington Post, Why Won’t Trump Release His Tax Returns? Here Are a Few Possible Reasons.
- Washington Post Fact Checker, Trump’s False Claim That ‘There’s Nothing to Learn’ From His Tax Returns
- The Week, Richard Nixon's Tax Returns Were Being Audited, Like Donald Trump's. Nixon Released Them Anyway
- There are a bunch of stories in May 2016 about Senator Ron Wyden’s bill to require Presidential nominees to release their tax returns. From Accounting Today’s “Senate Bill Would Require Presidential Nominees to Release Tax Returns:
Wyden’s bill, the Presidential Tax Transparency Act, would require candidates to release their most recent three years of tax returns to the Federal Election Commission within 15 days of becoming the nominee at the party convention. Should the candidate refuse to comply, the Treasury Secretary would provide the tax returns directly to the FEC for public release. The bill also provides for redaction of certain information, as the FEC deems appropriate.
"Brother, Spare Me a Dime. Or Else." Online at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay that begins, "Laws that ban street begging often are challenged as a violation of First Amendment free speech rights. Appellate courts are divided on the question, and the Supreme Court has never answered it definitively."
Key said he had "never been kicked out as Prime Minister before."
While his office confirmed, based on information from the Clerk's office, that Key had never been asked to leave the House at any point since becoming an MP - the Parliamentary Library's record shows this is his fourth occasion.
The Library confirmed Key was asked to leave the debating chamber twice in 2006 and once in 2007 while he was Opposition leader.
A spokesman from Key's office said the Parliamentary Library's record was accurate.
Key thrown out of parliament over panama papers row
Loneliness is endemic to urban life: the acute feeling of isolation in a big crowd. Think of Warhol, surrounded always by people but never true friends... but never true friends
FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: From coast to coast, middle-class communities are shrinking.
Employers cannot force workers to be happy...
We wouldn't be here if it weren't for high debt and taxes
It appears they have their own very special quality standards [Lowering the Bar, earlier here, here, etc.]
Update on the story about the lawyer who apparently lied about his mom’s death to get out of court deadlines. Judge Ross didn’t even need to reach the question of whether or not he lied to slap down some sanctions. [ABA Journal]
* A short horror story inspired by author Timothy DeLizza’s Biglaw summer experience. [Your Impossible Voice]
Update on the story about the lawyer who apparently lied about his mom’s death to get out of court deadlines. Judge Ross didn’t even need to reach the question of whether or not he lied to slap down some sanctions. [ABA Journal]
* A short horror story inspired by author Timothy DeLizza’s Biglaw summer experience. [Your Impossible Voice]