Tax the Rich
Why? Because they’ve got the money. And more and more of it. And the system is rigged in their favor. And it’s becoming more and more rigged. SocioBlog explains more.
Why? Because they’ve got the money. And more and more of it. And the system is rigged in their favor. And it’s becoming more and more rigged. SocioBlog explains more.
Perhaps The Onionsays it best. It often does.
Nada. Nichts. Zilch. Niks. Τίποτα! That’s what the lying Mineo gets for his $440 million B.S. lawsuit against the NYPD. Even better, he’s got to pay court fees. The jury was deadlocked (11-1, against Kern) on whether Officer Kern brutalized Mineo with a baton. From the Daily News: Jurors did find Kern liable for malicious…
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Fox News says an ever-increasing number of people are losing their jobs. 15 million alone in a 3-month period in 2010! That’s patently absurd. But it’s cited to the Bureau of Labor Statistics so it must be true. They “corrected” their graph to read: “total unemployed.” Straight up, I guess ever since Obama started handing…
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It’s not easy to separate emotion from constitutional issues. Ronell Wilson killed two NYPD detectives in 2003 and was found guilty and sentence to death by a federal jury. Good. Now, in 2010, an appeals court struck down the sentence (but not the conviction… the bastard did it). It’s easy for cops and conservatives to…
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Ya think? Here’s the final report by the Cambridge Review Committee. I haven’t read it yet, but this may be the key sentence: “But instead of de-escalting, both men continued to escalate the encounter.” And the key insight may be here: “To say that the arrest of Professor Gates was avoidable is not to say…
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Wouldn’t it be nice if the Senate said, “Liberal or conservative, we’re not going to approve any Supreme Court justice that won’t tell us his or her position on issues”? The Senate is not supposed to be a rubber stamp. The founding fathers had no stated opinions on many current issues. Semi-automatic handguns didn’t exist…
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So I’m in the grocery store, buying a few things, and decide to use the self-serve lane for a change. I realize I have just $15.25 in cash. So I start scanning things… careful not to go over. Then I go over. An employee walks by and I tell the lady, a middle-aged black lady,…
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Plenty to do in Amsterdam… thanks to GVB, Amsterdam public transportation. But I’m really posting this because it’s starring… my mom! It’s also produced by my brother (and he’s the questionably hetero one in the video). This may be the slickest ad ever for public transportation (with the old Detroit People Mover song as a…
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Heather MacDonald has an op-ed in the New York Times. You know, on police issues we probably agree 75-80% of the time. And yet I’m always left frustrated and strangely disappointed by her writings. She’s too predictable. And her writing lacks depth as she simply sidesteps the main points of the opposition. I generally agreewith…
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