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A pedestrian steps off a curb, a shared scooter clips her at the hip, and three seconds later the rider is a block away. The medical bills land in her lap. One version of this case lives or dies on whichever bystander stuck around to give a statement. The other version runs on a data … Read more
If Republicans had been successful in holding the House and Senate, they would have defied a historical trend. Only a handful of times has a sitting President retained the advantage of a Congressional majority at the midterms, with the last being George Bush in 2002. The country was still united after 9/11, and the voters … Read more
We’ve had some really trashy executive councils in the past, not too long ago. Aside from that gerrymandered, unwinnable seat occupied by Karen Liot Hill (KLH), the other 4 seats have been occupied by some real pieces of work, like Deb “liberty and justice for SOME” Pignatelli (in Wheeler’s seat), the PappASS (predecessor to Ted … Read more
You can listen to the debates, discussions, explanations, and, oh yes, the excuses, but the bottom line is the Left cleaned our clock on Tuesday. The Republican candidates fought hard, and in most cases were the better person and the more qualified, but the die was cast in the spring when Donald Trump put both … Read more
Randi Weingarten is an amazing woman. Now you might think I am going to heap praise on her, but not today, or ever. Amazing and Randi always have a negative connotation. In this case, she and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), along with the folks at the National Education Association (NEA), spent a combined … Read more
Accusations are flying from both sides about the government’s weaponization for political gain. We know that there have been behind-the-scenes actions taken against opponents for years; look up Watergate on Google. But the modern version has its roots in the Obama administration. Whether out of seeking power over the opposition or outright fear, Obama used … Read more
The Grand Jury Subpoena That Arrived by Email: How Federal Prosecutors Are Normalizing Remote Testimony — and What a Witness Can Still Refuse
When a lithium-ion battery ignites inside a rented apartment, the question of who pays rarely has one answer, and the fight starts the moment the hoses are rolled up. The battery pack, the charger, the device, the outlet, the lease, the renter’s policy, the landlord’s policy, the retailer who sold the thing, the importer who … Read more
A breaker that trips twice in a week isn’t defective. Swapping it for a bigger one is the fastest way to turn a nuisance into a fire. The breaker is a sensor with a switch attached, and when it opens, it has already measured something on the circuit behind it and decided the condition is … Read more
It’s 6 p.m. and the living room reads 74, which is what the thermostat was told to deliver back in July. Outside it’s 62 and dropping. The compressor kicks on, runs a short cycle, shuts off, and the homeowner opens the app wondering why the bill keeps climbing. The schedule the thermostat learned over a … Read more
Most of what a modern garage door opener costs to run gets burned while nobody is using it. The motor barely registers. The transformer keeping the radio receiver, safety sensors, LEDs, and Wi-Fi module alive 24 hours a day is the real meter-spinner, and that’s the component federal regulators have been chasing for a decade. … Read more
Everyone keeps blaming the substation. The real constraint on the next wave of data center buildout is thermodynamics on the back side of the rack. Chips can be fed. The heat they throw off has to go somewhere, and in a lot of markets there is nowhere left to put it that isn’t already fought … Read more
As the holidays are often built around bringing loved ones together, they can amplify a family member’s or friend’s absence from the dinner table. Although you’ll likely feel immense pain that they cannot be there with you, there’s still room for joy during the festive season. Whether you’re celebrating Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, or Christmas, there are … Read more
The Left never gives up, especially when it comes to restricting your natural rights. Even in the wake of US Supreme Court decisions and countless court losses over a wide range of attempted restrictions, the Dems keep looking for ways to make you not want to own a firearm. From draconian limitations to a legal … Read more
If your first decision as an adult is to chemically or surgically neuter yourself because you think you’re in the wrong body, I think that’s crazy, but you be you. The gene pool will likely sigh with relief while Darwin’s ghost smiles at a mentally unstable human being self-selecting not to procreate. Adults. You want … Read more
In 2023, a public-health group sued to force the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to hand over anonymized player-tracking data that a state gaming statute had already required casinos to collect. The fight was about research access, but the underlying fact is the real story: casinos now keep a detailed, time-stamped ledger of what individual players did … Read more
AI answer engines are already quoting your client reviews back to prospects, and most firms have no idea which ones. A prospect types a question into ChatGPT or lands on a Google AI Overview, and the model stitches together a response from whatever text it can find under the firm’s name. A Google review from … Read more
One text thread on a personal phone can cost a bank nine figures, cost a supervisor a job, and pull a rank-and-file employee into a securities investigation that does not care whose SIM card carried the message. Since late 2021, penalties tied to off-channel communications have climbed past a billion dollars across Wall Street, and … Read more
A fall in a big-box aisle can cost a shopper a broken hip, months of rehab, and a five-figure medical tab before the insurance letters even start. The robot humming past the produce section a dozen times a day may have seen the wet spot that caused it. It may have logged the exact minute, … Read more
A plaintiff’s investigator is standing in a tow yard with a laptop, a Nexiq cable, and a preservation letter that went out to the carrier the same afternoon of the crash. Before anyone talks about black ice, cell records, or the driver’s logbook, one number comes off that truck’s engine computer: the top speed the … Read more