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With the proper media focus on the horrors of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent preventable destruction by flooding of lives, hopes and jobs, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week on the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States will be fighting for…
On the same day Ralph Nader wrote to Ford Motor Company Chairman and CEO Bill Ford, Jr., urging him to recall all Ford vehicles manufactured with a hot-wired speed control deactivation switch, Ford announced it will recall only a fraction of the dangerous parts. Earlier, Nader wrote to National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator Dr. Jeffrey…
September 7, 2005 William Clay Ford, Jr. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Ford Motor Company 1 American Road Dearborn, MI 48126 Dear Mr. Ford: As you are aware, an ongoing defect investigation of Ford Motor Company trucks and SUVs is being undertaken by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration due to high…
For over two years I have been saying that the Mayor of Baghdad, George W. Bush, should be paying attention to America, including its massively unmet public works needs. But the President, who scheduled five weeks in Crawford, Texas, to assure “a balanced life,” is now finding his political status unbalanced and hanging by fewer…
Soon millions of parents will be writing tuition checks for their children at public universities, believing that they are paying much less than the actual cost of an undergraduate education. Tuition at these public institutions has been going up quickly in the past decade, reversing the long-held public policy that tax monies should pay for…
Jeffrey W. Runge, M.D.AdministratorNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration400 Seventh Street, SWWashington, D.C. 20590 Dear Administrator Runge: I am writing to request that the general public be afforded the same expert safety advice provided to the producers and viewers of the Cable News Network. Specifically, I urge NHTSA to issue a consumer advisory detailing the life-threatening…
In order to increase its leverage over Northwest Airlines mechanics, management is decreasing the margin of safety for its passengers. If Northwest Airlines executives are as willing to sacrifice their past and present compensation packages the way they are demanding round after round of sacrifices by their mechanics, then any settlement would be infused with…
While George W. Bush keeps saying that the United States is at war, for most of the United States, apart from the soldiers and military families, the people seem detached from the daily devastation in Iraq. Reporters and anti-war activists have made this observation repeatedly over the past months. To be sure, the polls are…
Law Reviews should have a “letters to the editors” section, as many professional journals in the social sciences and physical sciences do. Presently, there is no way readers can comment on or rebut any of the contents of law reviews other than to persuade the editors to print an article or note or book review…
Babies are dying of starvation in Niger—a large country in dry Africa with 12 million people. Their emaciated mothers and fathers are eating rats except lately the rats themselves are starving. A massive attack of locusts in the midst of a prolonged drought led to a harvest failure and the spreading fatal famine. The government,…