Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Across the World, the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Become an Invitation to Autocracy The Wire


Irish Husband: A man who hasn’t kissed his wife in twenty years, but will kill the man who does
via an Irish Mate ;-)



As Ed Morrissey warned in 2018, “When the service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product. If you don’t want to be the product, don’t sign up in the first place.”





Bank Hapoalim Enters Guilty Plea to Conspiracy for Assisting U.S. Taxpayer Hide Accounts and Taxable Income 


DOJ Tax has this announcement: Israel’s Largest Bank, Bank Hapoalim, Admits to Conspiring with U.S. Taxpayers to Hide Assets and Income 




Sydney criminal lawyer in 'shifty-athon' behind bars
The District Court Judge had just delivered a scathing assessment of Croke’s four-year campaign to avoid justice which involved adjourning his criminal trial every year since 2016.

Coronavirus patients could be cash cows for nursing homes LA Times J T McPhee: “Just when one thinks humans could not stoop any lower…”

The Hospital CEOs Keeping Seven-Figure Salaries as Frontline Workers Go Without Pay

Gilead has yet to set a price for the coronavirus treatment remdesivir, but an influential drug pricing watchdog says it could be worth up to $4,500 per patient Business Insider 


Coronavirus: Why so many US nurses are out of work BBC

Don’t Forget the Other Pandemic Killing Thousands of Americans Daily Beast

DeVos sued for seizing student loan borrowers’ wages during pandemic Politico

Reuters data visualizations – Falling Angels?: “Data show how debt has U.S. companies on the edge of danger. The pandemic may push them over. U.S. companies have amassed roughly $10 trillion of debt since 2001, taking advantage of more than a decade of low interest rates and economic expansion


Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Taxation of Electronic Gaming, 77 Wash & Lee L. Rev. 661 (2020):
At a doctrinal level, the subject of this Article is timely. During this time of the coronavirus pandemic, casinos have been closed and large populations have been subject to stay-home orders from local and state authorities. One can reasonably expect a large increase in electronic gaming and thus an increased need for proper consideration of its taxation. This Article considers the proper way to tax electronic gaming of all kinds. It argues that a cash-out rule is the proper rule.


Clinton-Obama in 2020? One former White House official says it’s possible MarketWatch. No, Obama Cannot Be Part of a Dream Clinton/Obama Ticket. Jonathan Turley. I agree with Turley here – constitutionally impossible. And I’m not surprised to see it was Mike Dorf who propounded such a dubious theory. For those keeping score, Dorf was a “co-author” of one of Harvard law professor Larry Tribe’s books.

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You failed as a leader': Barilaro's message to McCormack

Deputy Premier John Barilaro accused federal Nationals leader Michael McCormack of blocking his bid to run for federal parliament in an extraordinary text message.