Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter closes out the year by looking at the latest homelessness census released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which found a staggering increase in the number of people living on the streets or in shelters. Number of People […]
Samantha Sophia on Unsplash ‘/> Is the Bible too “sexually explicit” for minors? The Canyon Independent School District in Texas was apparently concerned that it might be. The district pulled the Bible from school library shelves earlier this month as part of a review of potentially “sexually explicit material.” According to Superintendent Darryl Flusche, the […]
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Trump can’t dodge damages payment. Donald Trump is still on the hook for a $5 million payment to writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of sexually assaulting and defaming her in a civil suit against the former and future president. In 2023, a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarded […]
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From Bell v. Kiffin, decided two weeks ago by Judge Michael Mills (N.D. Miss.): With any beneficial law, … there will always be some litigants who seek to abuse it, and this court believes that there is good reason to suspect that this case involves such a litigant. In so stating, this court notes that […]
After the 2016 election, many commentators urged President-Elect Trump to follow the lead of President Carter, and create a blind trust. The Associated Press, for example, observed “The tradition stretching back to Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s is for presidents to put personal holdings such as stocks into a ‘blind trust’ run by an […]
“When it comes to alcohol consumption, there is no safe amount that does not affect health,” declared the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022. “No, moderate drinking isn’t good for your health,” headlined The Washington Post citing a 2023 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) meta-analysis probing the epidemiological association between mean daily alcohol intake […]
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