Bank Charges That Are A Crime
If you did a survey of the top ten most distrusted professions, right up there next to lawyers and politicians would be bankers. It’s amazing that we have such a negative view of the banks in light of the fact that almost everyone uses a bank.
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Call The Cops. There’s A Criminal In My Computer!
A common plot of Hollywood thrillers is the “Don’t Answer the Phone” device. In this kind of movie, the babysitter is aware that there is a maniac about to come to kill her or the children. The big moment comes when she gets a phone call from the police who say “The calls are coming from inside the house!” Pretty scary stuff.
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Can You Keep A Secret?
“Transparency” is a term that gets used on television a lot as something desirable, particularly in government terms to require that that our elected officials are being open and honest.. What transparency means is that there is nothing hidden and the people “employing” the elected official have complete knowledge of what is going on at all times.
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Consumer Rights And Protection
The news stories in the last few months have included some pretty alarming stories about bad products that have come to us from China. And we in the west do look with disgust at failures of a government to assure that products produced by merchants are safe for consumers. This is because our government maintains a high level of control, testing, and monitoring of products to assure that the consumers of these products are protected and consumers can buy them with confidence.
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Every Citizen Gets A Vote
One of the founding principles of our system of government is “one man, one vote.” The implication is that every citizen gets one vote in each election and that each vote will have the same potential impact on the outcome of the election as any other person’s vote. The implication is also that, in a perfect world, no citizen will ever be denied his or her right to that vote and that all will be able to and will willingly engage in the privilege of voting for their elected officials freely, openly and eagerly.
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Free Money From The Government
There is a humorous commercial that is shown from time to time in which a rather funny character does his pitch wearing a suit that is covered with question marks and dollar signs. The man is pretty funny looking in his own right. But the upshot of the pitch is that you can buy a book from him that will tell you how to get “free money from the government”.
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Government Records At Our Fingertips
Few know that the internet was actually started as a government project. It was created by the department of defense as a way of protecting our government’s infrastructure by decentralizing the computing power to many computers rather than one. But there is no question that the government has benefited from the move toward electronic records.
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Is It Worth It To File A Malpractice Claim?
When you are injured, getting a legal claim filed is not always the first thing on your mind. But this is one area that it seems the lawyers descend like vultures on anyone who is injured in any way at all. This is one way that the legal profession gets such a bad reputation. Seeing all of those “ambulance chasers” and lawyers trying to talk us into filing malpractice claims on television is not a dignified way to portray any profession.
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Protecting Our Kids Online
The internet has sometimes been compared to the wild, wild west. Part of the reason for that is because in those early days of the frontier, the law was in place to protect citizens of the land but in many cases, it was hard to enforce and criminals ran free to defy laws without fear of being stopped.
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Tapping A Vast Resource Through National Service
In 1994 there was a government agency created that didn’t create a lot of scandal and to a large extent went unnoticed. But this government agency has made a huge contribution to the quality of life for all who get involved with it. It is the agency called Americorps created by the Clinton Administration to replicate the success of the Peace Corps to tap the power of national service to aid those in need across America.
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Term Limits Pro And Con
When America young, if we could have put any sign on the shores of the country for any foreign government to read, it might have said “No Kings Allowed!” The conviction was strong that this new country would never be a place where royalty dominated the people and were held up for worship as was the abuse in so many countries our forefathers came here to escape.
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That Puzzle They Call Medicare Law
We depend on the government to pass laws that are good for the people of this great country. And many laws that get passed do a great job of that. But one requirement of a law to be of any benefit to people is that we, the people, must be able to understand it.
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The Controversial Punishment Of The Death Penalty
In the day in day out creation and enforcement of laws by our government and law enforcement officials, it is a common occurrence for an issue to come up that is layered with emotional and moral questions. At the legislative level even today, our government is wrestling with issues involving cloning and stem cell research and trying to find a middle ground between the ethical, moral and religious issues versus the scientific benefit that might come from the practice.
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The Cornerstone Of Government
Government in any society is a complicated thing. In the United States, with our system of checks of balances between three powerful wings of central government layered on top of fifty individual state governments, each of which handles their checks and balances in an individual ways, our government which is summarized as “of the people, by the people and for the people” has become a phenomenally complex thing.
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The Fbi Protecting Our Safety
Our federal government has literally dozens of bureaus, departments, and commissions. But of all of those agencies, there is probably none who are as “notorious” as the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the FBI. This is an agency who’s reason for being and daily challenges are so dangerous and exotic that we often see the FBI portrayed in movies and TV shows, and almost always heroically.
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The Fcc And Free Speech
When you think about it for very long, you wonder if there is a good reason that the United States even has a Federal Communications Commission. But with a closer look at the value this important government department adds to our public life, we can get a good perspective on the reasons we need the FCC to be there to provide some guidance for how the public airwaves are used.
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The Legal Rights Of Musicians
Creative people of all types all come back to one legal touchstone and that is copyright law. It is often sited in all kinds of cases involving literature, film, publishing and certainly in music. Within the music industry, the ability of copyright to protect an artist’s work has come under new challenges in the last ten years. The rise of peer-to-peer file sharing, online music downloading and other internet related ways that music gets passed around has presented some real challenges to musicians to collect what is due them as owners of music under copyright.
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The Legal Status Of Identity Theft Cases
The law is not a stagnant thing. It is constantly changing, evolving and adapting to new situations and new crimes that must be identified and understood so appropriate laws can be passed to protect honest people from the dishonest ones. This can be a tricky process, especially in this age when crimes using the internet make detection and evidence so difficult.
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The Most Feared Government Institution
To even mention the name of this government institution can set off waves of anxiety and stories of abuse and persecution that is unheard of for virtually any other governmental body in this country. It’s really amazing the ability of three little words to instill fear in the hearts of an American citizen when those three little words are – Internal Revenue Service.
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The Quiet Heroes - The Corps Of Engineers
Many governmental agencies and organizations get a lot of notice, both positive and negative. When the tragedy at Waco occurred several years ago in which the ATF worked to save the lives of so many innocents trapped in the Branch Dividian compound, the ATF took a lot of criticism when that episode ended badly. And yet it is the ATF that works so tirelessly to assure that we can be a nation that enjoys the rights we do but do so safely and within the laws.
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The Tva
We live in a time when there is a lot of debate on how the government might take measures to assure reliable and affordable resources of power, particularly in light of our ongoing gas crisis. We also live in a time when we are trying to find our way as to our role in conservation and the proper way to handle the natural world so we can live “green” and not damage the environment. Thirdly, we live in a time of remarkable natural disasters such as devastating hurricanes, fires and floods.
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Using Our Legal Rights For Estate Planning
“I know my rights!” That is one of those phrases we all like to have in our arsenal if we get into a struggle, particularly with the government or a financial institution. But another phrase that is just as appropriate, especially when it comes to the rights that the legal system gives us is, “Use it or lose it.”
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When A Bar Is Not For Drinking
“Passing the Bar” in the legal profession means something different from walking by a drinking establishment. The Bar Association is the central regulating body by which we can be assured that the legal profession is living up to the highest of ethical and legal standards.
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When A Name Is More Than A Name
Launching a new business is both an exciting and scary adventure for even a seasoned business veteran. But there is something about the spirit of the entrepreneur that drives us to strike out on our own and do something new, despite the risks.
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Who’s That Squatting On My Domain?
In the world of the internet, there are a lot of strange new ideas and words. If you have taken that step of setting up your own web page, you already know what a “domain” is. Basically a domain is that phrase used to find you on the internet. For example, if you set up a web page to see your modern art, you can create a name like, joesmodernart.com and people can find you on the internet that way. So in this example, joesmodernart.com is your “domain name”.
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