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All In a Day’s Work
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor On February 7th, 2014, the sad reports were compiled from the deadly day before. On Thursday, February 6th, at least 24...
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Is Voting Going the Way of the Edsel?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor Is there anything more fundamental to a democracy or democratic republic then the ability of its citizens to vote for their...
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Governor Walker and Illegal Political Activities
Submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor This past week, thousands of emails from within Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker’s inner circle were released as part of an appeal by...
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Abdullah al-Shami vs. The Fifth Amendment
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor The Fifth Amendment protects all United States citizens by guaranteeing us all the right of due process of law. The Fifth...
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Time to Clean House at J-PAC?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor As the son of a fallen Air Force pilot whose remains were never found, I am sensitive to the plight of family members of...
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The United States Supreme Court of the Chamber of Commerce
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor This session the record is 7-1. Since October of 2011, the record is 28 wins and 4 losses. That is a record that any team...
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Hobby Lobby and the Truth
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor Unless you have been in a coma the last few weeks, you have probably heard of or read about the Hobby Lobby case recently...
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Mr. Mayor, Show Us the Money!
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor I guess you don’t have to be from Chicago or Illinois to know who Rahm Emanuel is. The current Mayor of the City of...
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The CIA Psychologist Who Designed the Torture Program Claims It Was Not Torture
Respectfully Submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)- Weekend Contributor We have seen and heard the claims from Donald Rumsfeld and others that the leaked Senate torture report is off base...
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Communications Management Units and Prisoners Rights
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty-(rafflaw)- Weekend Contributor If you were like me, you may never have heard the term “Communications Management Units” before. They are basically a...
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The Arizona Solar Tax and Who Benefits From It
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor When I think of places that would be ideally suited for taking advantage of solar power, Arizona is high on the list....
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May 4th, 1970, The Day My Generation Lost Its Innocence
Submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor I was going to write this last weekend on the actual 44th anniversary of a very sad event. For some reason, I had a hard time focusing...
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Did The Justice Department Lie to the Supreme Court…And Get Away With It?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)- Weekend Contributor Thanks to the disclosures made by whistleblower Edward Snowden, we now know how far our government went to hide the...
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The NRA Has Blood on its Hands
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)- Weekend Contributor It has happened again. A mass killing at the hands of a person armed with knives and three semi-automatic handguns and...
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How Many Children Died to Protect the Honor of the Catholic Church?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor It is an agonizing story, and a book has been written about it and a movie was also recently made about it. The story I am...
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Happy Fathers Day Sonny
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)- Weekend contributor This is a personal story that I need to share with you. For many years before I became a Dad, Fathers Day always gave me...
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Forty Billion Dollar Failure
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor Forty Billion Dollars is a heck of a lot of money. It seems like an even larger number when you realize that just one...
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Supply Side Kansas and ALEC
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor In these post Recession days, we have seen various stories of state and municipalities economies make positive strides...
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Corporate Veil and Hobby Lobby
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor We have heard the phrase for quite some time now. “Corporations are people”. It sounds so simple, but what does it mean...
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Is Water a Right?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor I have been watching the water crisis in Detroit for some time now and I have been amazed that it is not a bigger story....
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Senate Resolution 400 and the Torture Report
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor Since the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted in April of this year to declassify its long-awaited Torture...
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Bank of America Escapes Jail… Again
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor It seems that a week doesn’t go by without news of the latest Big Bank agreeing to pay billions in a settlement with the...
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Economic Patriotism or Treason?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)- Weekend Contributor We have read in recent weeks and months about the continued movement of corporate profits by US corporations to their...
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Halliburton Commits Crimes and Gets a Fine
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor I guess I should not be surprised anymore, but it still saddens me to read that our old friend, Halliburton, has pled...
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9/11 and the Saudis and State Secrecy
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor In light of the recently observed 13th anniversary of the events on 9/11/01, I read an article this week that caught my...
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Banks Have the Federal Prison System Handcuffed
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor I have written in the past about our large financial institutions and their uncanny ability to break the law and escape any...
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Voter ID Unmasked
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor I can still remember the first time I voted in a National election. I was a young, 18-year-old student and I could finally...
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Two Corporate Crimes and No Accountability for the Suits
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor It never ceases to amaze me that the heads of major corporations and officers of those companies just never seem to go to...
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Prosecuters Seem Surprised that Banksters May Still Be Breaking the Law
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor We have written on multiple occasions about the illegal activities of Big Banks and Wall Street financial firms as well as...
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Why is it Illegal to Feed the Homeless?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor Did you know that somewhere in America, it is illegal to feed the homeless in public? It can’t be true can it? It is true...
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Banks Ignore the Bankruptcy Laws
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor In the past, I have written about the Big Banks continued unlawful actions that only result in “slap on the wrist fines”...
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Foreclosure Fraud?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor Since the Great Recession officially started in December of 2007, millions of people have lost their homes to foreclosures....
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What Are You Thankful For
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor Although I am a few days early, I wanted to wish all RIL readers a Happy Thanksgiving. I would guess that most of us have...
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Corporate Greed
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor Now that we have celebrated Thanksgiving, I was struck by the news that Congress is considering legislation that would...
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Bail-Ins and Empty Pockets
Respectfully Submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor The Banksters are at it again. You may recall an article that I wrote in March of 2013 which detailed a plan agreed to by...
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The CIA Lost Its Soul and Took Ours With It
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor This past week’s news reports of the Senate report on the CIA Torture program were both distressing and enlightening. I...
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Just How Much of Big Bank Fines Are Actually Paid and Who Profits?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)- Weekend Contributor It should not surprise any of the regular visitors to this blog that I have written many articles detailing the abuses of...
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NSA Abuses Never End
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor The instances of reported abuse of our country’s laws by our Intelligence services seems never-ending. The National...
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An Upside Down World of Justice
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty, (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor In our sometimes upside down world, it can seem that the lives and secrets of our intelligence service employees and their...
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The Sad and Negligent Decision to Hire Officer Timothy Loehmann
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor It is always tragic when anyone is killed. It doesn’t matter if it is accidental or intentional. The tragedy of someone...
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The CIA’s Whitewash Investigation of Itself
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor It is unfortunately not surprising that anything that the CIA does should be considered suspect. When the CIA recently...
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Will HSBC Be Too Big To Jail…Again?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty, (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor British banking giant, HSBC reached an agreement in 2012 with the Department of Justice that kept it from being hauled in...
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Gov. Bruce Rauner Declares War on Higher Education and the Poor in Illinois
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor I have to give Governor Bruce Rauner credit for not taking long to show his hand and publicly attack the Higher Education...
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Cutting the Great Outdoors of Wisconsin, Along With Everything Else!
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor A few weeks ago, I wrote about the massive cuts to education and programs for the poor by the new Governor of Illinois,...
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If The TPP is Such a Great Idea, Why Keep it a Secret?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw) Weekend Contributor The Obama Administration has been pressuring members of Congress to pass the bill that will give President Obama the “fast...
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Follow The Money
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor Over the last few years we have seen many stories and articles that discuss the problems States and Municipalities are...
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Is The Cell Phone Kill Switch in the Wrong Hands?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor You may not have heard of it before, but the government has the ability to shut off cell phone service at any time, under...
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What is the Cost to Purchase a State Supreme Court?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contributor The answer to the question posed in the title, in the state of Wisconsin, is $8 Million dollars. For those of us who think...
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Bankers Make a Mockery of the Law, and No One Goes to Jail
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Weekend Contibutor It has happened again. Several big banks have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar and are paying billions in...
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Have We Lost the Right To Protest?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)–Weekend Contributor In the years since the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War began, there have been some sizeable protests and demonstrations,...
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