Scalia correct. Going back to the original document, women were not even legal--nor were slaves.
Justice Scalia: Women not Constitutionally protected from discrimination
By Liz Goodwin
"Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex," Scalia told California Lawyer. "The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't. Nobody ever thought that that's what it meant. Nobody ever voted for that. If the current society wants to outlaw discrimination by sex, hey we have things called legislatures, and they enact things called laws."
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Amnesty for drug offenders. Jail for bankers. Who have been biggest thieves, done most property damage?
Bill Black, new deal 2.0: "The role of the criminal justice system with regard to financial fraud by elite bankers in 2011 is likely to reprise its role last decade - de facto decriminalization The Galleon investigation of insider trading at hedge funds will take much of the FBI's and the Department of Justice's (DOJ) focus. The state attorneys general investigations of foreclosure fraud do focus on the major players such as the Bank of America (BoA), but they are unlikely to lead to criminal liability for any senior bank officials. It is most likely that they will lead to financial settlements that include new funding for loan modifications."
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A return to Survival of the Fittest or a re commitment to a vision of social justice--our choice
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "Responding in 1940 to the unfolding catastrophes perpetrated by the rise of fascism in Germany, Walter Benjamin, a German Jewish philosopher and literary critic, wrote his now famous 'Thesis on the Philosophy of History.' In the ninth thesis, Benjamin comments on Paul Klee's painting 'Angelus Novus.'… The meaning and significance of Benjamin's angel of history has been the subject of varied interpretations by philosophers, literary critics, and others. Yet, it still offers us a powerful lesson about a set of historical conditions marked by a 'catastrophe that keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage.'… We need to return to Benjamin's angel of history in order to reimagine what it means to reconstruct a social state that invests in people rather than in the rich, mega corporations, the prison-industrial complex and a permanent war economy. We need to imagine how the state can be refigured along with the very nature of politics and economics in order to eliminate structural inequality, racism and militarism."
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After the New Deal, the Raw Deal
Facing daunting spending gaps, many states are looking to limit labor's political and bargaining power, the New York Times reports. The news comes just as Washington Republicans gear up for their own "war" against public-sector unions.
Perhaps the most aggressive attack on unions is being launched in Ohio, where the new Republican governor, John Kasich, is looking to take away the right of state-financed child-care and home-care workers to unionize, and to ban strikes by public-school teachers.
"If they want to strike, they should be fired," Kasich has said. "They've got good jobs, they've got high pay, they get good benefits, a great retirement. What are they striking for?"
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Unintended consequences and no unions in AL to take the hit. Maybe the tea baggers will take care of the bill
( MONTGOMERY, Ala.) (AP) - A judge's ruling means all 42,000 participants remaining in Alabama's prepaid college tuition plan will be affected by the outcome of a lawsuit seeking to make sure tuition is paid under the financially precarious program.
Circuit Judge Johnny Hardwick ruled the suit will become class-action litigation covering all participants because they face similar legal issues with the Prepaid Affordable College Tuition plan.
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Remember the Tailhook scandal. Killing just not adapted to cleanliness
NORFOLK, Va. – Raunchy comedy videos made by a high-ranking Navy commander and shown to the crew of an aircraft carrier three or four years ago have suddenly proved an embarrassment to the Pentagon that could blight the officer's career…
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Our own people no longer be invulnerable to assassination. Might free wheeling international murder come back to haunt us?
Randall Chase, Associated Press
DOVER, Del
The body of John Wheeler III, 66, a military expert who served three Republican presidents, was uncovered Friday when a garbage truck emptied its contents at the Cherry Island landfill in Wilmington.
Wheeler, as special assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force at the Pentagon during the George W. Bush administration, helped develop the Air Force Cyber Command.
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Obama hiding from his own secrets
Ray McGovern, Consortium News: "Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from downloading classified cables released by WikiLeaks, so he can better understand the futility of his Afghan War strategy. For instance, if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has hidden from him Ambassador Karl Eikenberry's cables from Kabul, he might wish to search out KABUL 001892 of July 13, 2009, in which Eikenberry reports that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is 'unable to grasp the most rudimentary principles of state building.'
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Sound familiar?
Too Big to Fail: Lockheed Martin's "Got Their Fingers Everywhere", Says Author
Posted Jan 04, 2011 09:05am EST by Stacy Curtin in Politics
With $40 billion in annual revenue, Lockheed Martin is the single largest recipient of U.S. tax dollars. The company receives about $36 billion in government contracts per year. In 2008, $29 billion of that was for U.S. military contracts – a dollar figure 25% higher than its competitors Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman.
What does that mean for you, the U.S. taxpayer? According to Hartung, each taxpaying household contributes $260 to Lockheed’s coffers each year!
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/too-big-to-fail-lockheed-martin's-%22got-their-fingers-everywhere%22-says-author-535769.html?tickers=LMT,NOC,BA,RTN,XLF,ITA,PPA&sec=topStories&pos=8&asset=&ccode=
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Even promise of billions can’t buy favorable U.S. ally in honestly corrupt Pakistan
By SEBASTIAN ABBOT, Associated Press Sebastian Abbot, Associated Press – Mon Jan 3, 4:09 pm ET
ISLAMABAD – The collapse of Pakistan's ruling coalition after a key party's defection complicates efforts to tackle problems facing this nuclear-armed nation already grappling with widespread poverty and insurgent attacks.
The renewed political turmoil bodes ill for military action against Muslim extremists that the U.S. believes is key to success in neighboring Afghanistan, analysts said.
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How interesting. How about attacks on Muslims? Don’t remember
State Department expressing worry about that.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States said Tuesday it is "deeply concerned" about the rise in attacks against Christians in parts of the Middle East and Africa.
"We are certainly aware of a recent string of attacks against Christians from Iraq to Egypt to Nigeria," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said. "We are deeply concerned about what seems to be an increasing trend."
"...an uprooting of the old order, the introduction of a new kind of society - cooperative, peaceful, egalitarian." -Howard Zinn,
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