Cross Posted From Article of Faith: Firedoglake: (bolds mine) “Kerry has done the right thing before — he had the courage to lead the filibuster against Alito even though he knew all the hacks were going to accuse him of pandering to the base. I suppose that’s a bad thing in a world where you’re expected to be pandering to lobbyists, money and power, but Kerry now looks prophetic — Alito is a third-rate legal mind who owes his...
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Clinton: “RFK, Jr. Made A Very Persuasive Case”
Cross-Posted From Article Of Faith: Not to dredge up all of this again, but since Robert Kennedy, Jr. first published his piece “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?” in Rolling Stone Magazine a few months ago, the debate about the role of Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, now running for governor, has been ongoing. In the latest RS (which for the life of me, I can’t find a link anywhere, but here is the magazine’s home page), there’s a...
Debt Collectors On Welfare
Cross Posted From Article Of Faith: This story in the New York Times this morning isn’t all that surprising: “Within two weeks, the I.R.S. will turn over data on 12,500 taxpayers — each of whom owes $25,000 or less in back taxes — to three collection agencies. The move, an initiative of the Bush administration, represents the first step in a broader plan to outsource the collection of smaller tax debts to private companies over time. Although I.R.S. officials...
The Airbrushing Of Bush v. Gore
Cross posted from Article of Faith: Adam Cohen of the Times has a great piece up on how the Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore (2000) is slowly but surely disappearing “down the legal world’s version of the memory hole”. Judicial conferences on the Rhenquist Court’s legacy refuse to discuss it, the “Supreme Court has not cited it once since it was decided, and when Justice Antonin Scalia, who loves to hold forth on court precedents, was asked about...
Sick
Cross-posted from Article of Faith: “An influential federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen regulations that severely limit the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates. “Supporters of such programs cite the possibility of benefit to prison populations, and the potential for contributing to the greater good.” LOL. Supporters like big pharmaceutical companies, staffed by their ghoulish geneticists, biologists, dermatologists and other so-called “real” scientists. As a social scientist, let me offer some perspective. This won’t...
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