No Golden Charm To Fix Our Money Problems

June 15, 2011

Gold, as jewelers are always eager to remind us, lasts forever. So will discussions of the gold standard. Until the Great Depression, the gold standard tied the U.S. money supply to the supply of gold. Each printed dollar represented an equal value of gold, held at a depository. The system has been out of use for decades, but some Tea Partiers and other conservatives believe a blast from the past …

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The Executioner’s Tweet

June 23, 2010

Capital punishment is carried out in this country behind closed prison doors, not on network television — though, if we are trying to deter heinous crime, one would think we ought to make the death penalty as visible as we can. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff seems to have found the next best thing to live television. Moments after he ordered the execution by firing squad of Ronnie Lee Gardner …

Stealing Love Away

May 19, 2010

Most people no longer think of their romantic partners as property. But, in a few states, the law has failed to keep up. Seven states (Hawaii, Illinois, North Carolina, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Dakota and Utah) still allow an abandoned spouse to sue his or her partner’s new flame for “alienation of affections.” In an alienation of affections case, one person in a failed marriage alleges that a third party …

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A Mid-Term Election Preview

May 18, 2010

It isn’t exactly Super Tuesday, but after voters in four states go to the polls today, we will have a better idea of which incumbents are in trouble this year, and exactly how much trouble they are in. Only one congressional seat is up for grabs today. Democrat Mark Critz, who was chief of staff to Rep. John Murtha, faces Republican Tim Burns in a bid to complete the remainder …

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