Nathan Lustig

A British woman from Liverpool recently found her now adult son on Facebook after being unable to find him since he was abducted by his father.  The woman was married to a Hungarian man, but they got divorced.  The ex-husband had visitation rights and took the boy to the zoo, but never came back.  The [...]

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The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel recently ran a 5 part series called The Preacher’s Mob: The Rise and Fall of a Milwaukee Crime Boss, detailing Michael Lock’s criminal escapades over a 10 year period.
The series is fantastic.  It provides an in depth view into Lock’s rise, his criminal exploits (including murder, drug dealing mortgage fraud and prostitution) [...]

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Government has done little, or nothing, to address energy independence, social security, a sprawling, complex tax code, healthcare, infrastructure, over crowded prisons, underachieving school and job creation. Instead, government has focused on abortion, illegal drugs, same sex marriage, online sports gambling, online poker, steroids in baseball and short term fixes to America’s major problems.

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I was scheduled to ref a soccer game last night in Madison and, as always, I checked the weather before the game. It looked like there was going to be some rain in the first half, and then the potential for thunderstorms in the second. Refs are always trained that if they see [...]

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No, I’m not talking about me (too young and too poor).  I’m talking about professional athletes and what they choose to do after retirement.  The NBA estimates that over 60% of players go bankrupt within 5 years of retirement, but what do the rest do?  Many athletes who made sound money management decisions go on [...]

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Note: This is the second in a series of posts about policy changes that make starting a business easier.  The first post on heath care is here.
According to the US Department of Labor, there are a little over 1 million new businesses created in the US each year.   The popular misconception is that 90% fail within [...]

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