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Article posted 18 May 2015 May 18, 2015 at 06:27AM [via Facebook] posted 3am

http://ift.tt/1Gheu4W Monopoly license with extremely restricted supply and a sale price of $200,000-$300,000 proves hard to sell when independent owner operators find an alternative source of fares basically for free. Wealthy old white guy who owns two houses upset.

Article posted 18 May 2015 Once a sure bet, taxi medallions becoming unsellable [via Facebook] posted 3am

http://ift.tt/1Gheu4W Monopoly license with extremely restricted supply and a sale price of $200,000-$300,000 proves hard to sell when independent owner operators find an alternative source of fares basically for free. Wealthy old white guy who owns two houses upset.

Once a sure bet, taxi medallions becoming unsellable

Not long ago, in America’s big cities, purchasing a taxi medallionâ€”the city-issued license to operate cabsâ€”was about as sound of an investment as they came. But with the ascension of Uber and other

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Article posted 17 May 2015 May 17, 2015 at 10:15PM [via Facebook] posted 7pm

Patriotic Correctness enforcers are apparently not only violent but also kind of dumb. (At least, dumb enough not to understand the distinction between speech that offends someone else and a beating that phyiscally injures someone else.) Of course stomping on any and every flag is free and protected speech.

Article posted 17 May 2015 May 17, 2015 at 05:55PM [via Facebook] posted 2pm

We used to be so much freer, back in the old days

Article posted 17 May 2015 Bk [via Facebook] posted 2pm

We used to be so much freer, back in the old days

Bk

#OnThisDay in 1918, the Sedition Act was passed, forbidding Americans from using “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the US government, flag, or armed forces during the ongoing World War I.

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