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Six years ago, Apple released the iPad and suddenly the market for tablet computers, which had been around since the early 90s, exploded. Simple, mobile tablet computing was now a real, worthwhile thing. But since 2010, Apple has been surpassed by its competitors, especially when it comes to using tablets for professional purposes. The primary […]

Just when we thought the email ‘Scaliagate’ scandal at Georgetown University’s Law Center was dying down, in fact, things have started to heat up. It appears that GULC’s Prof. Gary Peller has filed a Notice of Grievance against Dean Treanor for what are allegedly retaliatory and defamatory statements related to Justice Scalia’s passing last month. […]Read More

In what had the appearances of being a major legal battle over arsenic levels in California wines, the industry scored a major win when Judge Shepard Wiley dismissed a lawsuit against 83 California wine brands. Celebrations are sure to follow the defendants’ successful demurrer of the suit Doris Charles v. The Wine Group. Despite the […]

Meet John Sturgeon, a hunter, a septuagenarian, an Alaskan, and, as of Tuesday, a victorious Supreme Court litigant. Sturgeon wound up before the Supreme Court after his hovercraft broke down as he was starveling through the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve to hunt moose. Park officers told the moose hunter he couldn’t use his hovercraft, or […]

Allow me to rehash a few clothing-centric adages for a moment: dress for success, dress for the job you want, not the job you have, the suit makes the man, the pantsuit makes the presidential candidate, etc. You’ve heard them all before, but there’s some serious truth behind those platitudes. Clothes don’t just change how […]Read More

Teachers have a lot on their plate: the students themselves, lessons plans, administrative duties, and countless others. Add this one to the list: students stealing nude photos off your phone when you’re not looking. Union County High School teacher Leigh Anne Arthur left her phone on her desk for only a few moments while hall […]

…. Recommends Further Investigation of Contracts Valued At Over N75bn A committee set up to probe contracts awarded by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) from 2011 to 2015 has indicted more than 300 companies and prominent citizens including serving and retired officers of the armed forces. Over N7 Billion has been recovered […]

The main catalyst that pushed the price of oil from a 13 year low in early February, when crude briefly traded in the mid-$20 to well over 50% higher less than one month later in one of the world’s most furious short squeezes, was the recurring infatuation with the fabricated narrative that OPEC would if […]

Via Dana Lyons’ Tumblr, The broadest U.S. stock index has reached an area of significant potential resistance. This will be our last in a series on major U.S. stock indices encountering areas of potential key resistance on their charts – any more would really be redundant. The post-February rally has been impressive in its breadth […]

The name of Russell Clark and his Horseman Global hedge fund are well-known to regular readers: Clark is perhaps best known not only for having run a net short book since early 2012… … but for being consistently profitable and successful during this period, a time when most of his “pedigree” peers have been underperforming […]

Via Eurasianet, While Georgia has been caught up recently in a major pipeline competition, with Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran all making a play for the action in this small, strategically located energy-transit hub, some men in the central Georgian village of Ruisi have been busy with a pipeline project of their own. They lay a […]

Donald Trump “has a good brain and he’s said a lot of things,” which is why he often “speaks with himself” when he needs advice. Be that as it may, Trump has apparently chosen to give his “good brain” a well deserved break when it comes to investing the portion of his net worth that […]Read More