Once again, former CBS News anchor Dan Rather is creating news rather than reporting it. This week, he sued to reinstate two CBS executives, network president Leslie Moonves and former news division president Andrew Heyward, as defendants in a $70 million breach of contract suit he filed against CBS. The pair were named in Rather’s [...]
Archive for August, 2009
12 Aug
Jefferson Convicted of Bribery [Hooray!]
“Former congressman William J. Jefferson was convicted of corruption charges Wednesday in a case made famous by the $90,000 in bribe money stuffed into his freezer and a legal battle over the raid of his Washington office that reached the highest levels of the U.S. government,” reports The Washington Post. “Federal jurors found the Louisiana [...]
12 Aug
The Justice Department’s Black Panther Scandal Continues
The pursuit of justice in the Black Panther voter intimidation case is moving forward on two fronts. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) obtained an opinion from the Congressional Research Service last week that charges against the three Philadelphia men who intimidated and threatened white voters on Election Day 2008 could be re-filed without violating the Constitution’s [...]
12 Aug
New & Notable Legislation
The House voted against removing funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, but Sen. Harry Reid is doing his best to get the Senate to kill the project in his home state. Together with President Obama, Reid is working to withdraw funding, claiming, wrongly, that the project is scientifically unsound. For some [...]
12 Aug
This Week’s ‘Braying Jackass’ Award
“Those who oppose [Sonia Sotomayor] for fear of her unique life experience do no justice to her or our nation. Their names will be listed in our nation’s annals of elected officials one step behind America’s historic march forward.” –Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), employing the Obama administration’s straw-man approach to political discourse We’re still trying [...]
12 Aug
Sotomayor Confirmed to Supreme Court
Sonia Sotomayor became the first wise Latina justice on the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday as the Senate confirmed Barack Obama’s nominee to replace David Souter by a vote of 68-31. While Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) was absent because of illness, nine Republicans voted for Sotomayor — Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe (ME), Richard Lugar (IN), [...]
12 Aug
The Truth About Cash-for-Clunkers
The Obama administration has been raving about the success of “Cash for Clunkers” (officially named the Car Allowance Rebate System, or CARS), and this week Congress dutifully approved $2 billion more for the program. Why the popping of champagne corks? First, the demand for the program was so great that consumers burned through the $1 [...]
12 Aug
From the ‘Non Compos Mentis’ File
“President Obama and I are working closely with Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate and health care experts to make sure we get the details of health reform right. But we can’t let the details distract us from the huge benefits that reform will bring.” –Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who [...]
12 Aug
The BIG Lie
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 31-28 last Friday to approve health care legislation. The Senate Finance Committee is nearing a “compromise” bill, as well. The only real compromising going on, however, is that of the principles of so-called fiscally conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats. A public option insurance plan still dominates the House bill [...]
