In the city of San Francisco you can be arrested for intent to solicit a prostitute. This is something of a thought crime. If the government believes you intended enough to do an action, though you never agreed to do that action, than it is a crime. For example, if you make...
Prostitution should be legal and regulated. The reason that it is illegal is because of religion. Religious puritan beliefs, the same beliefs that less than 10 years ago made consensual homosexual sex a crime in many states, lead to bad public policy. In regulated brothels in...
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is hosting the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 10-13. The International CES offers global technology manufacturers,...
created by Brooke Balsley | 5 wks ago | updated 5 wks ago 191 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments
" Another deadline has been scheduled for the foreclosure fraud settlement with the banks and the state attorneys general; the numbers of the latter has gone down from 50 to 43. This time Tom Miller is serious about getting it done. Since last March Miller has been...
Unfortunately, police who commit crimes typically get away with it. But sometimes, justice prevails. In the case of a Las Vegas man beaten and tased by a cop for filming the officer conducting a traffic stop, the cop has finally gotten fired. In the video the cop violates...
Unfortunately, police who commit crimes typically get away with it. But sometimes, justice prevails. In the case of a Las Vegas man beaten and tased by a cop for filming the officer conducting a traffic stop, the cop has finally gotten fired. In the video the cop violates...
Blue Lagoon Pools, a pool construction firm based in Las Vegas, has been found guilty of negligence and failure to follow local building codes. Blue Lagoon’s negligence has led to the award of over $183,000 to eighteen homeowners who contracted the firm to build pools in...
created by mgerman | 10 wks ago 52 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Third-world behavior in America Another crazy story about a gunman from a western state where gun slinging remains more of a popular right than in more civilized communities, I think. Fellows ought to be able to...
The United States of America was created with three check and balance components meant to allow governing of the country through the representative process. The United States is not a true democracy; it is a...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 27 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago 787 views | 15 recommendations | 24 comments
Cue the music, fade in:'Do, do, do ,do, do … wa, wa, wa … do, do, do, do, do … wa, wa, wa … 'Like the showdown in Clint Eastwood's classic film, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the TEA Party, wearing...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 27 wks ago | updated 27 wks ago 360 views | 8 recommendations | 13 comments
Well, Democrats and Republicans both showed they have a problem when it comes to problem solving solutions. Let's put it this way... If you say you are a man of the people, you d better solve problems for the people. Not sure I understand politicians; they spend hundreds of...
created by WillRogersUSA | 33 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago 38 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Since the beginning of time, the caveman time, man has been the master of all domains. The ruler, the chief. If he wanted something, he'd just take it. His food, his woman. It has always been the same... Kings,...
created by WillRogersUSA | 35 wks ago | updated 35 wks ago 66 views | 4 recommendations | 0 comments
http://thesop.org/attachments/2011-002/25698_IMG_89_1307159878.JPGWell, today, as I type this out I am at the doc’s office. Now don't worry ‘cause Mrs. Roberts makes sure that I do the right things to keep me young ‘cause she's younger than me & no one wants to...
created by WillRogersUSA | 35 wks ago | updated 35 wks ago 50 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
he level of bank foreclosures and Federal National Mortgage Association foreclosures in New York may not have risen to the level seen in hard-hit areas like Nevada and Arizona, but the housing crisis did...
created by cassy82 | 39 wks ago 56 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"As Florida Republicans threaten to disrupt the presidential nominating calendar by holding their 2012 primary date in January instead of later in the year, Iowa's Republican governor is vowing to protect the traditional first-in-the-nation status of his state's...