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HERD ABOUT IT? by Ana Grarian The University of Maryland has been ordered to produce a list of plaintiffs their students have represented over the past two years or lose a quarter of a million dollars in state funding. What? Law students practicing law? How did that happen? Who did they upset? Hint. Cluck Cluck Cluck Hint. Environmental Lawsuit Hint. Clean Water Act Enforcement Hint. Sounds like – a University in Indiana
Written by David Corn for Politics Daily Peter Wehner, a Politics Daily colleague, was quite gracious to accept my challenge to defend his old boss, George W. Bush — that is, to partially accept it. Regular readers of this column might recall that in a March 17 article, I insisted that the evidence is quite clear that Bush and his crew misled the American public into the Iraq war. I noted that in the months prior to the March 2003 invasion they had “waged a willful campaign of misrepresentation and hyperbole” about the supposed WMD threat posed by Iraq. It wasn’t merely a matter of Bush, Dick Cheney and the others repeating in good faith intelligence that later proved to be wrong. They incessantly made provocative (and false) assertions overstating the lousy intelligence, and, on other occasions, they simply made stuff up. I offered a sampling of eight false statements that characterized this endeavor. (The Center for Public Integrity has put together a list of 532 false Bush administration statements about Iraq’s WMD capability.) And I dared Wehner, who worked in the W. White House, Karl Rove, Bush’s uber-strategist, and Ross Douthat, a New York Times columnist — each of…
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The young mother drops by A tear in her eye Asks for advice that I might give her If I tell her of things I would try The burden’d be mine and I’d not wonder why. Though some of that I might be willing to do, If my wife would think the same way too. I hear that the man that’s been with her two years Is pretty much fed up, said she now in tears. “Your mother or me.” said he. The line in the sand, the slap of the glove, the challenge given. Now I do know what I would have told him.
What the Transcripts Show About the Doctored ACORN Video Tapes (We believe this analysis is from Acorn itself. Of course they have every right to defend themselves, to be heard and release such an analysis and, considering the nature of O’Keefe himself and those attacking Acorn we find this at least as valid as attacks by those with an absolute interest in destroying Acorn no matter what may, or may not have been done. Two notes: while Acorn has reacted to correct perceived problems, until O’Keefe was caught obviously trespassing and attempting to deceive elected officials, all we heard from that side was support and little criticism. And also note: if one url doesn’t work it’s possible another “big government” url will. It looks like a few were mistyped.- editor) The following is an analysis of the heavily edited videotapes and partial transcripts posted on big government.com by O’Keefe and Giles based on their undercover visits to ACORN and ACORN Housing offices. Below the analysis, an Appendix provides key excerpts from the posted transcripts.
Inspection is a weekly column. However, occasionally the author is sufficiently outraged or intrigued by a current topic to write a special, second, edition. “To use such threats as political weapons is reprehensible.” -Eric Cantor, Representative of Virginia’s 7th congressional district Why, yes, it is, Rep. Cantor. Then why are you doing it?
Written by Jason Leopold for T R U T H O U T (Illustration: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t) Attorneys defending Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo prisoner designated as the first “high-value” detainee by the Bush administration, have finally gained access to three volumes of diaries he wrote while he was in the custody of the CIA and brutally tortured by agency interrogators and contractors at a secret “black site” prison.
HERD ABOUT IT? by Ana Grarian This week Ana brings you a much edited version of a poem, The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith 1770. As her readers know, Ana is much interested in the movements that have intentionally driven folks out of the rural areas and into the cities. This poem was written in reaction to the Inclosure Acts in the UK which “enclosed” the village commons and made them inaccesible to grazing. The acts contributed to the mass migration of peasant farmers to the cities in search of wage jobs. “Goldsmith had been worrying about changes in the way agriculture was organised in Britain for some years before he wrote The Deserted Village. He is probably the author of an essay entitled “The Revolution in Low Life” which appeared in Lloyd’s Evening Post, 14-16 June 1762, which anticipates the themes of the poem, and he had commented on depopulation in the countryside in his poem The Traveller (1764). His novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) also gives a detailed picture of the vulnerability of rural life to power and money.” excerpted from an article by Paul Baines (University of Liverpool) on the Literary Encyclopedia www.litencyc.com I find it…
Written by Minorwork Editor’s note: due to a technical snafu this post may not have made it to the front page here at LTS. So we decided to re-post it. Science is a crude invention. Quit reading and go out and do it. You’ll find out. Does it help determine in a half hour phone call whether or not to bail a daughter from jail? Or how many days to let her stay there? Three nights but not determined by science. Economists, and geologists in the mine, are scientists in their respective fields. Both are good at telling why there was a fall but not so good at preventing it. Does science help decide whether and when a son is to accelerate his fathers dying process? What has the scientific method determined is the best way or even if to tell a brother his daughter is not his? And can a person apply science’s methods on whether to advise, or not, a grandfather making his will as to which is his blood grandchildren?
