Rearranging Chairs on the Titanic: How the Media Blew the Story of Trump v Bannon
By WBE | 1.5.2018 | Columns,In The News,Ken Wexler
Donald Trump hates all media that criticize or disagree with him. This is so very dangerous, for it is not the duty of the media to support our leaders. Rather, it is their obligation ...
By WBE | 3.22.2017 | Columns,In The News,Ken Wexler
What the Democrats in the Senate should do about Judge Gorsuch is truly a dilemma. The failure to hold hearings on President Obama’s appointee Merrick Garland was unprecedented, even ...
By WBE | 6.10.2016 | Columns,In The News,Ken Wexler
It seems to be well-established by Donald Trump himself that he is an unapologetic racist, misogynist, divisive, self-aggrandizing narcissist with all of the attributes of a fascist dictator. ...
Class actions are a procedural device enabling courts to handle large numbers of similar claims efficiently and economically. The procedural device serves two purposes.
Spending $100 to get ...
I have a poor excuse for not blogging for a long time --- there have been so many issues to blog about that I have been paralyzed. While true, it is such a lame excuse that I am forcing myself ...
Illinois Senator Mark Kirk suffered a stroke about a year ago. He is only 53 years old, was an active member of the Navy Reserves and worked out regularly, so it was, to say the least, a ...
I spoke recently at the annual conference of the National Association of State Treasurers (“NAST”). The panel I was on was directed to Dodd-Frank and the impact of its financial reforms two ...
By WBE | 1.19.2012 | Columns,Hall Of Shame,In The News,Ken Wexler
It always amazes me how editors of newspapers can mold public opinion merely by the wording of headline and the placement of a story. The New York Times today gave me another reminder of this ...
Republicans Block Another Obama Nominee, Consumers Suffer Another Blow
By WBE | 12.16.2011 | Columns,For Consumers,In The News,Ken Wexler,You Should Know
On Thursday, Dec. 8, in a 53 to 45 vote, Senate Republicans blocked the nomination of Richard Cordray as the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Despite Cordray’s backing by 37 ...
Let’s get one thing straight: I would love to have public school teachers, fire departments, police departments, national defense, research, healthcare, social security, prisons, public parks, ...
What’s Wrong With THIS Picture? Emasculating the SEC is NOT Good for the Country
By WBE | 6.23.2011 | Columns,For Businesses,For Consumers,For Investors,Hall Of Shame,In The News,Ken Wexler,You Should Know
I picked up the Financial Times this morning. Like the Wall Street Journal, it has a series of short paragraphs (blurbs) in a column on the left-hand side of the first page. The top one was ...
Strict Construction My Eye: Supreme Court Blows by Seventh Amendment
By WBE | 6.22.2011 | Columns,For Businesses,For Consumers,In The News,Ken Wexler,You Should Know
On June 20, 2011, the United States Supreme Court took another sledgehammer to the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution. Maybe ...
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