In the beginning of her speech, Ethel Long Scott didn’t present herself as the most-polished of the six speakers who addressed attendees during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis. She did, however, come off as the loudest, most-outspoken and most-victimized liberal granted access to a microphone. [...]
Victimhood Alive, Well at Single-Payer Conference
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments
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You Can’t Rest on Imaginary Laurels!
May 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment
“We can’t rest on our laurels, because we’ve got a lot of work to do.” President Barack Obama was only half-right when, according to Reuters, he shared those words with an audience at a Democratic National Committee fundraising event in California. Why? Because, as evidenced by the post-stimulus unemployment claims chart shown above, the laurels [...]
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‘No Good Deed Goes Unpunished’ (Part 2 of 2)
May 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
“You have a new form of business now for trial lawyers which is that they now go to foreign locations and try to root up and play off plaintiffs under circumstances under which legal systems are less well-developed and then try to export those judgments to the United States,” said Charles A. James, executive vice [...]
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‘No Good Deed Goes Unpunished’ (Part 1 of 2)
May 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments
“This case is the ultimate embodiment of ‘no good deed goes unpunished,’” said Charles A. James, executive vice president and chief legal counsel at Chevron Corporation, speaking about the 16-year-old, $27 billion lawsuit filed by the Amazon Defense Coalition against Chevron in Ecuador. James shared the opinions above during a conference call with bloggers one [...]
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Bank Opts to Level New Homes in Victorville, Calif.
May 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
“House flipping” takes on a whole new meaning in the incredible footage above which shows the demolition of four model homes and 12 almost-finished homes in Victorville, Calif. Guaranty Bank of Irvine, Calif., financed construction of the homes by Matthews Homes, according to the report in the video above. Unable to move the vacant and/or [...]
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Was Morgan Hill Attack a ‘Dry Run’ by Terrorists?
April 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
It’s a must-read article for anyone serious about homeland security.* “It,” in this case, is a post published today by Bruce Perens. Notably, it includes an insightful analysis of a little-reported infrastructure attack that took place just after midnight April 9 in the Northern California city of Morgan Hill. Though I won’t pretend to be [...]
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Brady Campaign Banking on Another Tragedy
December 26th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Forty-eight-year-old Bruce Pardo set into motion a series of events on Christmas Eve that, according to a Los Angeles Times report, has resulted in nine deaths inside the Covina, Calif., home where members of his ex-wife’s family had gathered for the holidays. Not surprisingly, little time passed before the folks at the Brady Campaign began [...]
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