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Big Tobacco and the Supreme Court: Double Jeopardy, Civil-Style?
Ted Frank, Special to BMI | October 25, 2006
     Jesse Williams started smoking as a 21-year-old soldier in Korea in 1950. Though Williams was taught as a child that it was unhealthy to smoke, and, in turn, taught his children not to smoke, he refused entreaties from doctors and family to…
Remember Social Security?
Kristina Rasmussen, Special to BMI | February 14, 2007
     After making a brief appearance in 2005 and spending 2006 in the wings, Social Security reform took center stage again last week with the inclusion of “personal retirement accounts” in President Bush’s budget proposal.      Following the…
The Real Gas Threat - from OPEC
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., Special to BMI | March 26, 2008
     Skyrocketing gasoline prices may be pushing the U.S. economy over the edge, but the oil-rich lords of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil cartel don’t give a hoot.      Chakib Khelil, OPEC’s president and Algeria’s…