> Too bad that the Walmart suit failed. It is a shame that women employees had to bring a case involving discrimination all the way to the Supreme Court, but I find it incredible that the court sided with Walmart. I still won't shop there.
> It appears that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has a problem and the NYTimes has the information about the ties between Thomas and Harlan Crow:
....The two men met in the mid-1990s, a few years after Justice Thomas joined the court. Since then, Mr. Crow has done many favors for the justice and his wife, Virginia, helping finance a Savannah library project dedicated to Justice Thomas, presenting him with a Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass and reportedly providing $500,000 for Ms. Thomas to start a Tea Party-related group. They have also spent time together at gatherings of prominent Republicans and businesspeople at Mr. Crow’s Adirondacks estate and his camp in East Texas.
In several instances, news reports of Mr. Crow’s largess provoked controversy and questions, adding fuel to a rising debate about Supreme Court ethics. But Mr. Crow’s financing of the museum, his largest such act of generosity, previously unreported, raises the sharpest questions yet — both about Justice Thomas’s extrajudicial activities and about the extent to which the justices should remain exempt from the code of conduct for federal judges....
*** If Anthony Weiner resigned, how is it that Republican David Vitter is still in the U.S. Senate? In case you've forgotten about Republican Vitter's scandal, let me refresh your memory with these key words: prostitute, diaper, madam, etc. If you still cannot recall the Vitter scandal, just Google Vitter scandal.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Createrealdemocracy blog has a great post about the new word "publicopoly" which was created by ALEC to describe the Kasich and Republican plan to sell off parts of Ohio. ALEC has their solutions to fix Ohio.
