Just before the Attorney General of North Carolina appeared on television to announce his decision on the Duke University "rape" case, one of the many expert TV legal commentators said that Attorney General Roy Cooper would probably use the words "insufficient evidence" but not the word "innocent" in dismissing the case...
On this oft-despised day, otherwise known as Tax Day, most people would agree that our tax system is broken, a mess, needlessly complex, in many cases unfair and terribly inefficient.
The worst thing about the global oil spike brought on by increased consumption is not worries over global warming, or the idea that the United States is not “energy independent” (Japan does not overly worry that it must rely on others for food), but that our thirst has driven up the world price—and with it the importance of the Middle East while sending half-a-trillion dollars in petroprofits to a primordial region...
