This story is one of the more scary items I've seen reported by the media. The New York Times ran a story about a nurse (Anne Mitchell) in Texas who informed state regulators that a doctor (Rolando G. Arafiles Jr., MD) at her rural hospital was practicing bad medicine. What did she get in return? H ...

This story is one of the more scary items I've seen reported by the media. The New York Times ran a story about a nurse (Anne Mitchell) in Texas who informed state regulators that a doctor (Rolando G. Arafiles Jr., MD) at her rural hospital was practicing bad medicine. What did she get in return? H ...

Put some bleachers out in the sun And have it out on Highway 61. --R. Zimmerman John Dawson Winter III, b. Beaumont, Texas (1944- ). Note to "no guts no gospel" weenies born after 1965: Johnny Winter is a straight-up Boomer Hero. Listening to him could make you tougher. Make you ready ...

There were 10,357 foreclosure notices published in February for the 13-county Metro Atlanta area, up 27 percent from January and 34 percent from February 2009. Alpharetta-based Equity Depot released the numbers in a report today, according to a post by Henry Unger in his “The Biz Beat” o ...

My people were entirely Nordic, which is to say they were idiots. Every wrong idea which has ever been expounded was theirs. Never once had they opened the door that leads to the soul; never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark. --Henry Miller (1891–1980), Tropic of Caprico ...

In Edelman v Poster ;  2010 NY Slip Op 00788 ;  Decided on February 4, 2010 ;  Appellate Division, First Department  we see a situation in which a matrimonial retainer agreement boldly stated a right to arbitrate, yet the Appellate Division, First Department, determined that clie ...

Public Interest(s) and Fourth Amendment Enforcement by Alex Reinert of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, to be published in University of Illinois Law Review. Abstract: Fourth Amendment events – the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is one of ma ...

New Orleans voters to cast ballots for Ray Nagin’s successor today - NOLA.com Despite wall-to-wall coverage of the Saints’ first-ever Super Bowl appearance in Miami, a high voter turnout is expected in today’s local and special state elections in New Orleans. A 40-45% percent turn ...

The New York Times reports that the Transportation secretary Mr. Ray LaHood told Toyota drivers that they should stop driving their recalled Toyota vehicles until they can be repaired at a Toyota dealership. According to the New York Times, Mr. LaHood was very strong in his words about the defecti ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has squandered over $101,000 tax dollars on “in-flight services” on congressional delegations since 2008, according to new documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch. Expenditures on Pelosi-led CODEL ...