Kirkwood, Mo., City Attorney John Hessel has vivid memories of a gunman’s city-council shooting rampage that claimed the lives of five people last Thursday.“I remembered every second of this, and everything was in slow-motion,” he told ABAJournal.com. “If you asked me how long it lasted, I would have said 15 minutes. I now know from police officers who listened to an audiotape it took one minute and 13 seconds until he was shot.”The gunman was Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton, who had filed numerous lawsuits against the city, all stemming from citations he had received in connection with his construction and demolition business. Thornton killed two police officers and three Kirkwood officials, including public works director Kenneth Dale Yost. As Hessel ran from the council chambers, he passed police officers coming up the stairs who shot and killed Thornton, putting an end to the carnage.Hessel, a lawyer with Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, managed … [Read more...] about A Lawyer’s Lifesaving Decision: ‘I’m Not Going to Sit Here and Let Him Execute Me’
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‘Am I British or Muslim first? I’m Yorkshire before both’ says Baroness Sayeeda Warsi of Dewsbury
0 Have your say SHE might have sat at the top table of British politics - and even shared a bunk bed with a former Prime Minister - but Baroness Sayeeda Warsi is a West Yorkshire girl through and through. Aisha Iqbal caught up with the Dewsbury-born and raised Conservative peer at the bed factory - founded by her father Safdar Hussain 40 years ago - which she now runs with her elder sister. If you ask Baroness Sayeeda Warsi her proudest recent achievements, they will have nothing to do with politics.After controversially quitting frontline British politics in 2014 over what she called the Government’s “morally indefensible” stance on the ongoing Palestine/Israel conflict, as well as her deepening disillusionment with her beloved Conservative party’s lurch to the right as she saw it, she is now splitting her time between her duties in the House of Lords - she was made a life peer in 2007 - and her business and charity interests.She also recently … [Read more...] about ‘Am I British or Muslim first? I’m Yorkshire before both’ says Baroness Sayeeda Warsi of Dewsbury
Comic Michelle Wolf Responds To Backlash: ‘I’m Glad I Stuck To My Guns’
Media Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email Enlarge this image Michelle Wolf says the title of her HBO special, Nice Lady, was inspired by real life: "For the longest time ... I thought that's how I was supposed to be. I thought I was just supposed to be nice and pleasant — and then I realized that's no fun." Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Netflix hide caption toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Netflix Michelle Wolf says the title of her HBO special, Nice Lady, was inspired by real life: "For the longest time ... I thought that's how I was supposed to be. I thought I was just supposed to be nice and pleasant — and then I realized that's no fun." Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Netflix LANGUAGE ADVISORY: This interview contains language some readers may find offensive. A few minutes into her performance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night, comic Michelle Wolf joked that the event organizers should have done … [Read more...] about Comic Michelle Wolf Responds To Backlash: ‘I’m Glad I Stuck To My Guns’
The H-1B Visa Program: Its Contradictory Perception And Why the U.S. Must Increase The Visa Cap
Since its inception under the Immigration Act of 1990, the H-1B visa has been a controversial program. The H-1B visa is a temporary work visa for non-immigrant workers in a specialty occupation and requires a higher degree or its equivalent.[1] This visa program is arguably the most important temporary work visa, and has been simultaneously portrayed as both as the means to a more competitive American workforce,[2] and as a device for usurping high-skill jobs and competitive pay from “native-born” American workers.[3]This paper aims to address these two contradicting perceptions in order to ultimately show that the H-1B visa is a positive and necessary program that needs to be fully understood and promoted. Part II of this paper will be an overview of the H-1B visa program, discussing the program’s background and history in order to put the program into context. Part III will discuss the current effects and benefits of the H-1B visa program. It will also outline … [Read more...] about The H-1B Visa Program: Its Contradictory Perception And Why the U.S. Must Increase The Visa Cap