EDIT: A new online sales tax?
So remember when you could buy things online from Delaware and not pay a sales tax? Well, that luxury may be coming to an end. The Marketplace Fairness Act, backed by Amazon.com, won by a landslide when Senate voted 75 – 22 in favor of the bill and shows signs of passing by the end [...]
MARK: A Burger! My waistline for a burger!
Though you might have missed it, there are going to be significant developments to the fast food giants Taco Bell and McDonald’s. Both corporations announced changes they are undertaking in order to conform to our increasingly health-conscious yet fast-paced lifestyles. Yes, it was a sad weekend for fat guys everywhere. Once again, skinny people are [...]
EDIT: On Extinguishing Shame
There is a candidate in the Vicksburg, Miss. mayoral race with a backstory most people would never discuss. On Wednesday, Linda Fondren revealed her history as a “working girl” in a television interview with Fox40. The brothel she worked in 30 years ago was entirely legal, and she even met her husband of 28 years [...]
EDIT: The LAPD settlement
In the midst of a nine-day manhunt for ex-police officer Christopher Dorner in Los Angeles, LA Police Department officers fired more than 100 shots at Emma Hernandez, 71, and her daughter, Margie Carranza, 47, while the two were delivering newspapers at 5 a.m. Feb. 7, according to a Feb. 9 story in The LA Times. Both [...]
SMITH: How not to handle the aftermath
The tragedy that began when two bombs detonated at the Boston Marathon last Monday has finally come to a close. It resolved itself after an intense shootout with police in the Boston suburb of Watertown, which resulted in the death of one suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and the capture of his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. But [...]
