NY State–Carl Paladino, the World Trade Center, and eminent domain
NY State–Carl Paladino, the World Trade Center, and eminent domain First, from the transcripts: CARL PALADINO (R), NEW YORK GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE:
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December 7, day of sad news
December 7, day of sad news I opened the newspaper I subscribe to here in the Washington, D.C., area, this morning, and it contains nothing about Pearl Harbor–no graceful remembrance, no visit to an...
View ArticleFree Speech and Brown University
This 1991 case—a student, Douglas Hann, expelled from Brown University for drunkenly shouting abusive epithets, in the small hours, not a first offense—should never have gotten to the court of public...
View ArticleFree Speech and Campaign Contributions
Update re Stephen Colbert and PAC: www.rollcall.com/news/Stephen-Colbert-PAC-FEC-video-205563-1.html?ET=rollcall:e10287:80103659a:&st=email&pos=epol Today, class, we will deal with that strange...
View ArticleFree Speech and Campaign Contributions
Another in an occasional series on free speech: One person, one vote. One person, one amount. Following up previous posts, again on the recent legal argument that money, in the context of political...
View ArticleFree Speech and Attacking Social Security
Applying lessons from some of the history below, up top: Regardless of the individual views of ordinary Republicans as citizens, the national party apparatus of the GOP has never ceased trying to undo...
View ArticleBin Laden, Pakistan, and corporate media narrative
With thousands of Afghanis, Iraqis, and U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden, the fugitive icon of terrorist networks, was finally tracked down and killed in...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden killed, president announces
Osama bin Laden was killed in a compound hidden deep in Pakistan, President Obama announced Sunday night. Complete transcript of the president’s statement linked here. From the statement: “Yet Osama...
View ArticleNew intelligence at the White House: Osama bin Laden killed
President Obama announced Sunday night that Osama bin Laden was killed in a compound in Abottabad, Pakistan: ” . . . shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to...
View ArticleDrowning the Middle Class in the Bathtub, part 1
Alan Greenspan called for eliminating the debt ceiling –and the press missed the story. In response to Republican so-called budget proposals, President Obama says it best: “There’s nothing serious...
View ArticleFinancial-political corruption is not just a “single issue”
Lead Paint and the Tangled Web of Corporate Finance Back in August the Washington Post ran an excellent, heartbreaking article on rip-offs of victims of lead paint poisoning. The article linked here...
View ArticleThe low-class Washington, D.C., chattering classes
The chattering classes are lower-class than the masses. We have seen this before. In 2002 and 2003, millions of ‘ordinary’ Americans figured something was wrong about wantonly invading Iraq. That...
View ArticleThe Clinton disaster for Democrats continues
So far, in election 2016, Mrs. Clinton has won primaries in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,...
View ArticleSeptember 11, 2012. A Day in the Life of Hillary Clinton’s Career Ambitions
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had two chief rivals in the corridors of power–Vice President Joseph Biden and then-Ambassador to the U.N. Susan E. Rice. Each outweighed her in credibility,...
View ArticleHillary Clinton in campaign 2008: Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination as...
From transcripts Any candidate, having used a good talking point once, will likely repeat it. Talking points are a minor staple of political campaigns. The utterance may be fairly spontaneous the first...
View ArticleDefeat amnesia: More on Hillary Clinton comments in 2008
More on Hillary Clinton in 2008– The previous blog (Friday, April 15) was a reminder of Senator Hillary Clinton’s 2008 comments on assassination. Specifically, she instanced as the reason for her...
View ArticleHillary Clinton on using other people’s words (2008)
There is a great Saturday Night Live parody of Hillary Clinton literally turning into Bernie Sanders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs47ce4QRBY (Video clips of the hilarious skit are widely available...
View ArticleHillary Clinton about 2008: “Eventually I just decided I had to withdraw”
Sunday, May 1 (May Day): CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper, Tapper interviewing Secretary Clinton, established two points. First, in spite of polls showing widespread doubt about Clinton’s...
View ArticleWhat are “pay to play letters”? –
Those Democratic National Committee emails — Other DNC emails released by Wikileaks in Friday’s first batch contain splashier exchanges of personalities and worse, including the plot to paint Bernie...
View ArticlePneumonia and Dishonesty
As has now been disclosed, Secretary Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday, September 9, according to the statement by her physician, Dr. Lisa Bardack. Her campaign revealed the diagnosis on...
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