Ray Bradbury on the local news today.
OTHERWISEThe main problem is the idiot tv. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.
View ArticleThe Government. (Has spent $600 million out of $50 billion promised to help...
OTHERWISEby Paul Kiel, Pro PublicaWhen the Obama administration launched its flagship foreclosure prevention program in early 2009, it pledged to spend up to $50 billion helping struggling homeowners....
View ArticleWhat separates a stereotype from reality? (Good question. (A real softball....
What separates a stereotype from reality? - Justice Scalia, November 10th, in the case ofthe young man who came to the USA with his U.S. Citizen father at the age of 2 or so v. the U.S. which...
View ArticleNew York Times CONDEMNS D.C. City Council. (And rightly so.)
The New York Times published an editorial condemning Tommy Wells and the D.C. Council's proposed legislation that would require the homeless to have a home before they can access services for the...
View ArticleD.C. launches New Health Reform Law website. (Get ready to protest, tea...
Last Friday, the District of Columbia government announced the launch of a new comprehensive website aimed at educating District consumers about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the...
View ArticleToday, (11.15.2010) DC Child Support Services Division (CSSD) will be...
On November 15, 2010, DC Child Support Services Division (CSSD) will be launching a Homeless Veterans Outreach Initiative. This new initiative is aimed at enhancing services to Non-Custodial Parents...
View ArticleVincent Gray appoints transition team leaders of the "One City" Initiative.
Gray's transition team has appointed John Parham and Alexander Chi to lead the "One City" initiative. This transition committee is charged with translating the "One City" campaign vision into a set of...
View ArticleDC passes foreclosure law. (Finally.)
Washington D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty ratified a provision this week with the aim of bringing a more judicial-type framework to the nonjudicial foreclosure system in the nation's capital. Foreclosures in...
View ArticleNew York's Foreclosure Mediation Program
by Karen Weise, Pro PublicaWith foreclosures at close to record highs, local and state governments around the country have tried to intervene to both make sure banks aren't taking shortcuts and to help...
View ArticleMcMillan, Aquaponics and First Source. (From your First Source for News.)
Friday evening. I was napping. What a loser, I thought. My phone rang. Maybe one of my kit kat girls. I looked at the screen of my rotary cell phone. Dang. Jerome J. Peloquin. He’s quite the...
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Surprise. (That's life.)
Waking up this morning, I smile.Twenty four brand new hours are before me.I vow to live fully in each moment,and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.copyright 2009. Shoebox Butler.
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a nickel.
woke up this morning, with a smile when i saw porpy,thought, mother sister, i got 24 hours to be me, what shall i do?think about each step planted firmly before taking the next one,give a brother a...
View ArticleWall v. Kholi. (A habeas corpus case.)
Khalil Kholi is not the most sympathetic person to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court. Convicted in 1993 on 10 counts of sexually molesting his two stepdaughters from the time they were...
View ArticleSchwarzenegger v. Plata. (California Prisons. Bad.)
Prison, it’s a bad thing. In California, it’s really bad. So bad, that in October of 2005, the U.S. District Court in California ordered that California’s prison medical system be placed under...
View ArticleFreedom of Information Act. (Don't torture the law.)
Milner v. Department of the Navy This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Milner v. Department of the Navy. Glen Milner, a resident of Indian Island in the Puget Sound...
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U.S. Government Workers Ordered Not to Read. (This is not the Onion....
This is not a joke? The administration is a joke.From the New York Times - the Obama Administration orders U.S. Government Workers not to read information posted on wikileaks.
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Only in the U.S. (The United States of United Prisons.)
J.P. didn’t do well in school. He worked as a general contractor in the home remodeling business in Houston. He received advance payments from the victims on remodeling and construction contracts....
View ArticlePepper v. United States.
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Pepper v. United States, a case involving the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Jason Pepper, a convicted meth dealer, tried to paint...
View ArticleThompson v. North American Stainless.
It was a cold, crisp, clear morning at the United States Supreme Court today. Flags were at half-mast for Pearl Harbor Day. The U.S. Capitol Dome was gleaming white across the street, having...
View ArticleChamber of Commerce v. Whiting.
Illegal immigration has been a hot button issue recently. The Department of Homeland Security estimates that out of 31 million foreign-born residents in the United States as of 2009, nearly 11 million...
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Every Bit of Information.
Matrixx Initiatives v. Siracusano - January 10, 2011 Thom Yorke, frontman for Radiohead, claims he lives in a town where he can’t smell a thing. Maybe he took Zicam, a zinc-based cold remedy...
View ArticleKnocking on the Door.
U.S. Supreme CourtWashington, D.C.Kentucky v. KingJanuary 12, 2011 So, it’s Saturday night. Bob Marley is on the turntable. You’re hanging out with a couple of friends, laughing on the couch....
View ArticleMLK's 6 Principles of Nonviolence.
1. one can resist evil without resorting to violence.2. nonviolence seeks to win the friendship and understanding of the opponent, not to humiliate him.3 evil itself, not the people committing evil...
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Suitable Quotes. (Words for Thought.)
Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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