Madoff, aside from the damage he did to many individuals, devastated a large number of Jewish charities.[...]
Archive for March, 2014
March 25th, 2014 - 4:12 am § in Misc.
Training The Next Generation of Yihadists
Saudis volunteers hardened by wars in Syria, Iraq join al Qaeda in Yemen Reuter reports that Saudi Islamist militants have left the battlefields of Syria and Iraq for Yemen, where their experience appears to have contributed to a spate of lethal al Qaeda attacks. Car bomb damages local intelligence [...]
PRESIDENT ROMNEY: Unveils Poster “I told you so.”
Romney tells CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Obama’s “naivete” and “faulty judgment” about Russia has led to a number of foreign policy challenges. The President assured the audience that he is doing “all he can” to persuade Russia not to annex Crimea. He reminded for[...]
March 24th, 2014 - 12:48 pm § in Misc.
Shysters: The law is what you can get away with
A Couple of Years Ago, the AP Conducted a Poll About Lawyers And Healthcare 54% want it more difficult to sue hospitals and doctors over malpractice, 32% opposed. 58% of Independents and 61% of Republicans want lawsuit limits This public perception arises not so much because of frivolous lawsuits in[...]
Give South Carolina a Little Credit: They rejected an amendment to oppose Obamacare!
RESOLUTION TO PASS THE FREEDOM OF HEALTH CARE PROTECTION ACT, KNOWN AS H3101 The Businesses of South Carolina Come to Their Senses and Oppose The Dominant Tea Partiers. The opposition by radical Republicans to Obamacare is a major challenge not only for liberals but for any rational business person.[...]
March 24th, 2014 - 8:05 am § in Misc.
A world without free speech
This campaign is focused on free press in foreign countries. As an avid (and unusual) reader of the world press, however, I am less than sanguine about our own media. The sad fact is that a small number of media giants control almost all of our media. We get very little news of critical events [&h[...]
March 24th, 2014 - 4:07 am § in Misc.
SOUTH CAROLINA: A Response to My Sister
My sister, Stephanie, is the wife of William Quick a frequent troll here. She is upset that I write a lot about South Carolina, the place she and William chose as a retirement home. Stephanie feels I ought not to make an issue of their choice of a place to live. Dear Steph, You wrote […[...]
March 23rd, 2014 - 10:44 pm § in Misc.
Featured Article From Archives: Researchers Identify My Lai Coverup Mastermind
CBS News reported Sunday night that “documents held at the Nixon Presidential Library” have led researchers “to conclude that President Richard Nixon was behind the attempt to sabotage the My Lai court-martial trials and cover up” the massacre. Read story here. Return to The-[...]
March 23rd, 2014 - 1:15 pm § in Misc.
More Family Feud. UPDATES
I am only posting this to give readers a taste of the sort of email I get most days from my brother Hugh Schwartz and his amanuensis William Quick. In the last two days alone, I have received 31 emails from them! That is more than one an hour! In the meantime, we are 16 days […][...]
HORSESASS: Goldy calls out the Seattle Times over Taxes
Over at HorsesAss, David Goldstein rags on an editorial in the Times. The editorial complains that Seattle may loose another corporate headquarters and blames that loss on our lack of state moneys for infrastructure and education. Goldy, as usual. says that the Tokes ought to support an income tax[...]