With the caveat that I haven’t really looked into the details of the story, or the official police response. And yet, it does have the ring of truth to it.  Perhaps Radley Balko would know better. But there is this piece to chew on. Anyway, for your consideration: Dear Jeff, My big brother Ethan, who had Down syndrome, was killed by three police officers earlier this year. His crime? Not

That’s right: the University of Denver, where I once taught argument, lit, and theory — and where Brian Kiteley, as head of the creative writing program and a champion of the free expression of novelists, finds certain ideas unpalatable and in need of censorship if not shunning (not things of the American Psycho or Lolita or Ulysses or Portnoy’s Complaint variety, though; literary danger arises instead in brief polemics or

His take:  possibly, but the case isn’t airtight.  And then there’s the fact that the move toward employers’ increasing reliance on part-time workers is tied to the the economic downturn, not just to ObamaCare, as the trend predates ObamaCare’s passage. My take:  because nobody really knows what is in the law, or how it will be implemented (selectively, post-election season, etc), some businesses are fiercely worried, while others simply have

This, my friends, is what is commonly referred to as “reaching the tipping point.” Or, if you’re a bored, narcissistic, imperial ideologue who happens to be a wonderful father (rumor has it) and a Good Man who is, Visigothic epithets to the contrary, merely your garden variety liberal Democrat who is doing what he thinks is best for the country — you call it “fundamental transformation,” and your clear intentions

And you’re just figuring this out now? Small-business investors in California were promised big breaks five years ago, but now they’re being told to pay up, instead after a court ruling. After following the law, many of them are getting hit with tax bills as high as $250,000. […] “They relied on California law as it was written, that they would get a tax break if they invested in certain