No one could blame David Brown for being piqued at Hugh Hefner. Brown bought a chunk of Playboy Enterprises Inc., believing in the way the company made money, which is mostly by feeding male sexual fantasies. That formula hasn’t worked ...
Read More »Underwear bomber got worst treatment law allows
For those who think it an outrage that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents Mirandized the Christmas Day underwear bomber 50 minutes into his chat with agents, I have two words for you. Richard Reid. With a shoe containing partly burned ...
Read More »Obama, Alito dis each other in free speech brawl
Whether you think it outrageous or terrific that the U.S. Supreme Court last week ruled corporate funds can pay for political ads, or if you don’t much care, there is humor to be mined in a flap the decision created ...
Read More »Bank bashing makes passing Wall Street tax riskier
When it comes to forcing a little humility, a spark of gratitude, a tiny payback from financial firms that taxpayers rescued, President Barack Obama and Congress walk a thin line. They can keep on stoking the fury of Americans who ...
Read More »Doomed deals spark tug-of-wars between creditors
Those who years ago bought Tribune Co. bonds now are hurling nasty claims at the so-deserving Sam Zell, the real estate magnate whose takeover loaded the storied newspaper company with so much debt that it fell into bankruptcy. Longtime bondholders ...
Read More »Republicans want the Senate back with just one win
For the weight given Tuesday’s Senate race in Massachusetts, you would think the Democratic majority status in the Senate hung in the balance. It didn’t. But its supermajority status did, and that’s what counts these days, sad to say. Without ...
Read More »If marriage is so special, then spread it around
However passionate and polarized the gay marriage debate grows, sometimes it is difficult to tell one side from the other. “Where marriage is honored, and where there is a flourishing marriage culture, everyone benefits – the spouses themselves, their children, ...
Read More »Ex-banker begins 3-year prison term wondering why
One of the perks of wearing the robe of a federal judge is that you don’t have to explain yourself. But when a judge sends to prison for three years-plus the man who pointed U.S. tax collectors to billions of ...
Read More »Body scan isn’t only way to see bomb in underwear
Sixteen days before an al-Qaeda trained Nigerian with explosives in his underwear boarded a Detroit-bound plane, the U.S. director of terrorist screening crowed about the “true information success” of U.S. watch-listing. “An excellent example of interagency information sharing,” Timothy Healy ...
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Read More »Tiger Woods’s affairs a gift to lawyers
Whether a one-night hook-up or a long-running romance, a relationship without marriage rarely requires lawyers. Why call in a legal expert unless there’s a pre-nup to negotiate, a will to write or a divorce to handle? Tiger Woods’s sex life, ...
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Read More »Cheating husband texting on office pager sues boss
When California cop Jeff Quon wanted to talk dirty to his girlfriend at work, he did it by text. When he wanted to get personal with his wife, he texted her, too. News of Tiger Woods’s digital messages to alleged ...
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