by Ron Barak | Sep 13, 2016
Hey, we’ve had federal legislation for decades about truth in lending. A lender is required to make certain written disclosures about loan terms. There are consequences if those disclosures are false. Even if true, the borrower generally has 72 hours to back out of...
by Ron Barak | Aug 25, 2016
A friend of mine told me a story that got me to thinking. (C’mon, I do, sometimes.) She had purchased a round trip ticket to fly from X to Y and then back to X. It was a pretty good price: $320. As matters turned out (and they often do), my friend had to return...
by Ron Barak | Aug 11, 2016
A couple of years ago, Bill O’Reilly recorded a piece on America’s race problem. With apologies for the fact that I’m too tech challenged to figure out how to provide the piece without the obnoxious advertising that surrounds it, here’s what he...
by Ron Barak | Aug 2, 2016
Don’t look now, Donald, but Browns actually can be good. Sometimes. No silly, I’m not talking about Trump’s attitude regarding Hispanics! I’m talking about Jerry Brown, Governor of California. You remember Leslie Van Houten, don’t you? She was one of Charlie Manson’s...
by Ron Barak | Jul 28, 2016
Will he ever get it right? Probably only when he leaves office. Under six months, and counting. In a rare move, both houses of Congress and both sides of the aisle actually agreed on something and sent a bill to President Obama. They proposed that post-office...
by Ron Barak | Jul 26, 2016
Mary F. Commanday is the mother of J. Christopher Stevens, former U.S. Ambassador to Libya, who was killed in the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi. The New York Times (of course) published her letter to the editor this past Friday in which she...
