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Thursday, June 4
Obama Backpedals on the Uighurs
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 04 Jun 2009 11:42 PM EDT
There’s an old saying among trial lawyers: “When you go into the woods and find a turtle high up on a tree stump, you know he didn’t get there by himself.” In other words, sometimes there is no innocent explanation for why someone is where they were when they were caught. That maxim certainly applies to the 17 Chinese Uighurs caught fleeing Afghanistan after 9/11, who are now detainees in Guantanamo Bay. More>>>
Treasury Secretary's Secret Talking Points Reveal ThatBanks Were Forced to Surrender Ownership Stakes to Government
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 04 Jun 2009 04:30 PM EDT
Last October, then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ordered nine banks that the Treasury Department described as "healthy" financial institutions to surrender ownership interests to the government or else face regulatory action that would force them to surrender ownership interests to the government, according to an internal Treasury Department document. Paulson's extraordinary threat culminated in one of the most sweeping government intrusions into the free-enterprise system in the history of the United States. More>>>
Who Drove the Chevy Off the Levy?
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 04 Jun 2009 05:53 AM EDT
In the mid-'70s, I attended law school in Michigan. Even back then, foreign automakers -- especially the Japanese -- steadily shaved off market share from the once-mighty Big Three: GM, Chrysler and Ford. This foreign encroachment into the auto industry scared the socks off executives of domestic appliance-makers. Manufacturers of dishwashers, refrigerators and stoves scrambled into all-hands-on-deck mode. They vowed to make better stuff, with continually improved features and zero tolerance for defects. Westinghouse -- a major manufacturer in serious trouble during the early '70s -- set up a "productivity and quality center" to study Japanese manufacturing methods. A 1983 Business Week article quoted one Westinghouse top exec: "We have sent more study teams to Japan than any other American company. We are doing to the Japanese what they have done to us for 20 or 30 years." Today domestic manufacturers of large appliances still dominate the American market. More>>>
For Mark Levin
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 04 Jun 2009 05:21 AM EDT
Inspired by conservative talk radio host Mark Levin, teacher has class recite Declaration of Independence, Preamble of the Constitution, even sing 'America the Beautiful'...Ray Charles would be proud |
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