Nothing is certain in life except death and taxes (or coup deVilles and hookers, if you're Elvis). Just one of the few phrases we are ALL familiar with. Another one is "activist judges" - a pejorative that certain sides of the spectrum, who will remain direction-less, like to bandy about like "communist" or "liberal" (as if those were bad things). Well here's just one example of how this term is a distortion of reality. Unfortunately, it's an easy one to make since you could just about squeeze the number of people who don't understand the nuances of the Federal Judiciary into all of mainland China.
Read article.Just to clarify, the Supreme Court has
recorded the audio of everything they've done since about 1955; I'm not sure what more we'd get out of actually watching Clarence Thomas fall asleep or Ruth Bader Ginsburg age, but who knows? And, regarding Ginsburg "invoking foreign law," well, here's what she actually said:
Read article.For more insight into the mainstream media's creativity with the truth, listen to TJ and The Tux on EastVillageRadio.com
Wall street is an incestual place. Gretchen Morgenson had a great piece in The Times yesterday about the links between The Street and The Fed. Interesting tidbit that I did not know: the NY fed is a private institution paid for and managed by wall street. They select their own regulators!
Did Cheney and Rice sign off on torture? Torture has been illegal since the Constitution was written ? Did the DOJ give the Bushies the license to string em up by the nuts and start slamming them into rubber walls? The Taliban are 70 miles from Islamabad as the Pakistanis cut a deal and try to figure out their ass from their elbow. Many leaders walk out on Ahmadinejad at the Anti-racism conference. Is he the poster boy for racist leaders or is he trying to find his own voice as Iranian elections near? Spitzer's back, Blago is negged from Reality TV by the courts and Community Service is being touted by Bloomberg and Obama, even though we're all broke and can't afford to pay bills, let alone work for free. Listen to the show on www.eastvillageradio.com
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