Last Night’s Debate: The Winners and Losers

by Tyler Deamer on Dec.06, 2011, under Law Office

Newt Gingrich was the big winner of last nights GOP debate, along with Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, says Chris Cillizza in the Washington Post. “The former House Speaker seems to be adjusting nicely to his newfound frontrunner status.” The big losers were Mitt Romney, thanks to his $10,000 bet and an unfocused performance, and the GOP establishment in general, many members of which were hoping Gingrich would fall. To put it more succinctly: “Newt wins; Romney loses; Paul rises,” sums up Andrew Sullivan at the Dish.

“Romney had the most to lose tonight, and he certainly did,” writes Stephen Green at PJ Media.

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Strangeways: ‘working prison’ aims to reduce reoffending

by Ava Thornton on Dec.01, 2011, under Justice System

Possibly the most exclusive white tablecloth restaurant in the north-west, Crofters employs some of the most attentive, polite and pristinely presented waiters to have served me a meal. Diners need to book well in advance for the full à la carte menu, yet the chefs are willing to cook to order.

Just a shame you’re unlikely to get a table. Why? Plastic cutlery is the giveaway. Because you won’t find Crofters in Yellow Pages, but inside HMP Manchester – aka Strangeways. The chefs and waiters are all prisoners. And my fellow diners are their guards.

Britain’s largest high-security, Category A prison has long been a touchstone for argument about the purpose of prisons. Fo

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Embattled Herman Cain campaign plans ‘major announcement’

by Tyler Deamer on Nov.29, 2011, under Law Office

ATLANTA Rapidly becoming a mere footnote in the presidential race, Herman Cain sent mixed signals Friday on whether he would abandon his beleaguered White House bid on Saturday after a woman’s allegation of an extramarital affair.

He said he would make a “major announcement” on whether he would press on at an event still being billed as the grand opening of a new headquarters.

It is the latest and perhaps final twist in a campaign saga that has taken the Georgia businessman from unknown longshot to surprise frontrunner to embattled tabloid subject.

He arrived at his suburban Atlanta home on Friday afternoon to talk with his wife of 42 years, Gloria, about whether to press on after his campaign was rocked by multiple sexual harassment allegations and this week’s claim that he had a 13-year affair.

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Employees of West Palm Beach company guilty of scamming elderly with unnecessary septic products

by Ava Thornton on Nov.24, 2011, under Justice System

A South Florida trio is facing up to two decades in prison after conning elderly customers into buying unnecessary septic products — in some cases more than 70 years worth of toilet paper, federal prosecutors say.

Salespeople for FBK Products, of West Palm Beach, told their victims that they needed the company’s special toilet paper to avoid ruining their septic tanks. The reason: the federal government changed regulations on toilet paper, the company claimed.

Three of the suspects, Christopher Lincoln, Mary Moore and Joseph Nouerand, this week pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to commit wire fraud. The

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CA University Reviews Pepper Spraying of Occupy Demonstrators

by Tyler Deamer on Nov.19, 2011, under Law Office

Sunday, November 20, 2011 10:24

As some faculty members called for her ouster, the chancellor of The University of California Davis launched an inquiry into the pepper-spraying of apparently peaceful Occupy Davis protesters by campus police, reports the Los Angeles Times. A video of the Friday incident that went viral on the Web showed an officer dousing protesters with a canister of pepper spray as they sat huddled on the ground. The police had been attempting to clear the university’s Quad of tents and campers.Faculty and students reacted with outrage. Nathan Brown, an assistant professor of English, said the episode was the latest example of “the systematic use by UC chancellors of police brutality” to suppress protests.

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