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Silly Sarah and the Govinator: A Study in Contrast
Sarah's resignation confirms what her values actually are by defining what is most important to her. Governor Palin is going to keep as much of her newfound money as she can.
Paul Minor's Attorneys Ask Attorney General To Intervene
This new evidence of misconduct should compel Attorney General Holder to review Minor's case and immediately release him from prison.
Elusive Justice Overdue in the Case of Political Prisoner Paul Minor
It is time to right the wrongs committed by the overzealous, partisan U.S. attorneys who brought shame and disgrace to the Justice Department under George W. Bush.
Prosecutors Must Be Held Accountable
Prosecutors have power. They have been given that power in part to effectively ensure public safety. Yet, everyday in courtrooms across the country, prosecutors are abusing their powers.
Stevens: Justice Was Served (Damn!)
Whether it's Ted Stevens, Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter (OK, maybe not Coulter) the law is the law and we should celebrate when justice is served. Even if that means that the guilty walk.
Law and Odor
Senator Ted Stevens has become the latest symbol of how things worked at the Justice Department in the Bush administration.
Alaska House Demands Canonization For "Uncle" Ted!
I think Mr. Stevens should wait as least as long as the interned Japanese during WWII did for their apology.
Justice Department Turns the Table on Political Prosecutions
Ted Stevens never should have been prosecuted in 2008. Traditional media has done a pitiful job covering the many political prosecution stories that occurred during the Ashcroft/Gonzales years.
Putting Justice Back Into the U.S. Department of Justice
"In the interest of justice." That says it all. I only hope from this point on everyone in the law enforcement system of the United States remember those five words as their singular mission.
One System, Two Realities
Many of the people who will praise Mr. Holder for dropping the charges against Mr. Stevens won't care that the same kind of misconduct routinely taints the trials of those who are not "connected."
A Critical Step to Improving Prosecutorial Accountability
Eric Holder should be applauded for sending the right message to all prosecutors that abuses of power will not be tolerated.
Palin: Burning Bridges to Everywhere
Sarah Palin she wants her pick; Republican Tim Grussendorf to go before the full house for approval to the Alaska Senate! Here's Palin's letter to Senate President Gary Stevens.
The LIEonization of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens
The wrongs of the Bush DOJ do not make Ted Stevens innocent nor do they exonerate him. The attempts to make him a martyr by local right wing apologists are pathetic.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Leaks, Is This A Good Thing?: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer April 2, 2009
A month before its scheduled premier, a work print of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has leaked to the Interne...
Rubbernecking: Another Ten Reality Shows I'd Like to See
Ketch Me If You Ketchikan - in which ex-Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska travels around the state trying to stay one step ahead of the law now that the f...
Will the Corruption Ever End?
Will the corruption in public and private life and in government and business ever end? The New York Times reports on the former GOP State Senator Jos...
Hope + Lessig = Change
Lawrence Lessig, through his group, Change Congress, has already done some of the important legwork to get us involved in removing the influence of special interests in Congress.
One Last Look Back: The 10 Most Ridiculous, Shameful, or Generally Unfortunate People and Events of 2008
Well, it could've been worse. As 2008 mercifully ends, we're left to ponder a year in which the real and the surreal were pretty much indistinguishable, where insanity actually became tedium.
My 2008 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 2]
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uh,oh Sarah. Sounds like your cronies have been busy as beavers while you were running off on your little pipedream. You know what they say: When the cats away the mice (rats) will play. Sounds like, " You got some serious splainin' to do Lucy ", as Ricky would say. Bet ya wish you would never have left your safe little hideout, (er' big), hideout. It must have been nice without all those pesky national reporters looking into your closet doors before you made the idiotic decision to play with the big boys. You got a whole lot to do to wrangle out of this little problem. So get to doin' it ! IT'S GO-GO NOT CRY-CRY !!!!!!
Check out Nate Silver's latest comments on this race here:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/search/label/alaska
He extrapolates even a more modest %age of uncounted votes going the same way as those counted to date indicates a definite win for Begich.
http://www.pubrecord.org/politics/476-more-than-80000-ballots-in-stevens-begich-senate-race-still-uncounted.html
Alaska"s hotly contested senate race is still up for grabs, as the number of uncounted ballots since Tuesday"s election have now doubled, state election officials said.
Alaska election officials said Friday that more than 81,000 ballots remain uncounted in the contest between Republican incumbent Ted Stevens and Democratic challenger Mark Begich, the mayor of Anchorage. As of Wednesday, state election officials said Stevens was leading Begich by 3,257 votes.
But the integrity of more than 18,000 ballots have been called into question by Stevens and Begich both of who are now seeking tens of thousands of dollars in donations from their supporters to pay for lawyers during a review process.
It surprised me that after the 2000 election was so obviously stolen that the Democratic party didn't push hard to fix the problems that made it so easy for Republican's to fix the election. I would seriously hope that voter reform is #1 on Obama's agenda especially after he saw how the Republican's were trying to surpress voters rights to register to vote and also in the states with those touch screen voting machines that were reported to be flipping votes from Obama to McCain.Now Obama was lucky because his campign was run so well that they were able to overwhelm the republican's attempts to steal this election ,but future candidates might not be so lucky ! Something needs to be done now before we are faced with another stolen election in our future.
If all of us in all the states join together via some web-site and push to have a referendum vote to add an amendment to the Constitution giving the U.S. citizen the Federal right to a vote, that would solve the problem. J.Jackson Jr. has a very good book out on this subject.
"Voting in the United States is based on the constitutional principle of states' rights. The 10th Amendment to the Constitution states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the State, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Since the word "vote" appears in the Constitution only with respect to non-discrimination, the so-called right to vote is a "state right." Only a constitutional amendment would give every American an individual affirmative citizenship right to vote."
http://www.house.gov/jackson/VotingAmendment.htm
The following link is a bill in Congress that attempts to get the American people the RIGHT to vote. Email your congressman and let them know to support similar bills.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060206/jackson
Some of the conservative bias in the Anchorage area is, IMHO, a result of trying to maintain a large, modern (read: somewhat lazy and entitled) population center, in a region of the country far better suited to subsistence and rugged individualism.
One indication of this is the large criminal component, to the Anchorage area population; but the sentiment toward entitlement is broader than that. Fishing, trapping, hunting, mining, and tourism are the only industries that enjoy a legitimate base in the area, and there is not nearly enough of those to really support the population's needs -- or to have (over-) developed the area and its tour industry.
The gap is filled by oil money from the north, and by government handouts -- welfare jobs -- brought to the area by our stalwart band of veteran porkers. Without pork, Our state would have far fewer roads, utilities, well-funded schools, or Alaskan Airlines flights; much less the Marine Highway system that Sarah hates so much. The same is true, but perhaps less so, for SouthEast AK, where I live.
No wonder the Republicans who run our polls are panicked, in a year like this. That's no excuse for "adjusting" democracy, of course -- but remember, these are the very folks who regularly remind us (falsely) that "America is not a democracy" -- as if a representative republic were not a form of democracy. As if Abraham Lincoln, the most famous Republican president after Saint Reagan, were wrong about government "by the
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