"No good deed goes unpunished" and "Never judge a book by its cover." There is perhaps no better recent example of both sayings being relevant than in what happened to 29-year-old Kyle Osborn.   Osborn wears a beard with tattoos prominently and proudly displayed on his arms and he owns an auto detailing shop in Harrisonville, Missouri.    On Feb. 6 this year, he found an envelope containing $1,200 in cash lying on the ground outsid...

  The courtroom was hushed as everyone waited with baited breath for the jury’s verdict. The defendants were for years, one of London’s most glittering couples: he a fast-rising politician with fashionably left-of-center views on social issues and a background in high finance that had yielded a multimillion-dollar fortune; she a top government economist, who once hinted to an interviewer that she had ambitions to be Britain’s first female chancellor of the Exchequer...

  They say that these days it takes a lot to shock most people. The constant bombardment of the most impactful news on the television, in our newspapers, and on our computers has rendered most of us immune to the things that would have once been deemed shocking. Nevertheless, every once in a while a high profile scandal is broken by the media that is said to shock the world, if only for a few fleeting moments.    The recent phone hacking scandal involving Rupert Mur...