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It is difficult even for news hounds to keep up with the repeated and new prevarications of President George W. Bush. When he told his council of advisors a while back that he did not have to explain because he was the President, El Jefe was not kidding. It is difficult even for news hounds…
The phrase “participant-observer” comes from social science literature to mean someone who writes about an event or process while having participated in it. I’m going to have to do a little of that to make the following remarks. Bob Herbert is one of my favorite columnists. Writing twice a week in the New York Times…
“This bill is another license for corporations to lie, cheat and steal with impunity” A majority of the United States Senate today dealt a blow to the freedom of all Americans to seek justice in a court of law. At President Bush”s behest, limitations on class action lawsuits were approved in the erroneously named, “Class…
Feb. 6, 2005 President George W. BushThe White HouseWashington, D.C. Dear President Bush: With the transmission of your federal budget tomorrow, you will extend your record of massive deficits, privileges and tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, and sharp reductions in the budgets for health care and protection of the poor, the children and…
Our lawless President and his Congressional cohorts are pushing legislation that would significantly erode Americans’ last defense against corporate crimes and frauds; the civil justice system. With a bill scheduled to reach the Senate floor next week, our freedom to redress harms in courts of law is in danger. S. 5, a proxy for last…
Washington, D.C. — Senate bill S. 5 is anything but fair to the many individuals harmed each year by corporate wrongdoers. This bill would block significant access to the civil justice system. To do so in the middle of a corporate crime wave is simply irresponsible. Those damaged by pollution and environmental harms would have…
Last year, the Super Bowl halftime “wardrobe malfunction” led to an intense level of public outrage. The performance of Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake prompted over a half-million complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, leading to increased fines against indecent broadcasters. While the nationally televised flash of a woman’s breast was shocking, the potential for…
The “Compromise” Class Action Legislation is Nothing More Than a Chamber of Commerce wish list. Senators Dodd, Schumer and Landrieu Cave to Business Interests, Ignore State Judges, and Defy Judicial Council Suggestions with Legislation That Will Wrestle Power Away From State Judiciaries. This Legislation Would Greatly Diminish the Prescribed Checks and Balances of American Government.…
The controversy over going ahead with the nine Inaugural balls’ huge fireworks and party bashes, to which mostly the rich and powerful have been invited, has not been restricted to talk radio shows. Deep in the White House deliberations last year, some of the BBBs (the brainy big backers), who are selected to give policy…
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines a “bigot” as “One obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his own church, party, belief or opinion.” George W. Bush has not turned, overtly at least, his war on Iraq and America’s civil justice system into his religion. But he has folded his “party, belief and opinion” into a relentless pattern of…