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View More NewsA jury in Wales convicted Detective Inspector Emma Gardner of the North Wales Police of unauthorized access to computer material, for illegally accessing confidential police computer records to look up information for her friends. Prosecutors said Gardner searched police databases without a legitimate law enforcement reason for information on one man and three women, which she then shared with them. “I have my uses,” she told the man in question. The post Brickbat: Making Myself Useful appeared first on Reason.com. Read the full article here
In a scathing decision issued on Monday, a federal judge in Florida ruled that President Donald Trump’s January 29 lawsuit against the IRS was nothing more than a pretext for a “settlement agreement” granting him, his family, and his supporters huge favors at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. The plaintiffs and the defendants “worked in tandem and were never actually adverse,” writes U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, who ordered sanctions against Trump’s lawyers. “Because this fact was so obvious and so insurmountable, the Court finds that this matter was brought for an improper purpose—to gain the imprimatur of judicial legitimacy…
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Every four years the world gathers to remind Americans that soccer is boring. The World Cup arrives, a billion people weep with joy, and everyone who wasn’t indoctrinated before the age of six sits there waiting for something…anything to happen. Then suddenly it almost does. Then just as quickly it doesn’t. Then it almost does again. This is the rhythm of the world’s most boring game.It’s “the beautiful game,” and for most of my adult life I’ve been patiently informed, usually by someone who calls it fútbol, that I simply lack the sophistication to appreciate it. But they’re wrong. Soccer…
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Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Watch where you’re driving this week, and keep an eye out for innocent bystanders, please.…
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