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Other News That Needs Comments
Justice Clarence Thomas has always been a strident advocate of Conservative causes, and now comes the news that his friendship with a prominent and wealthy right wing supporter of Conservative causes may cross some ethical lines. The gentleman in question is one Virgil Crow
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 .
Fox News commentators said they saw no problem with any of this, but did say that had the situation involved a liberal Justice they would have had to start a second cable channel just to cover their 24/7 attacks on the character of the Justice.
The Headline in the New York Times on the situation in Greece reads
One reason is that
The country failed to collect on another 40 billion euros in back taxes owed in 2010, Ms. Stavraki said. “The problem is that most usually pay 20 percent of what they owe, and then they disappear,” she said
Upon hearing this the head of the Tea Party in the U. S. said “what a great idea, first the Greeks give us democracy, now a great tax system”.
The Greek government responded to the criticism by suggesting a re-shuffling of the cabinet might fix things.
An attempt to inject humor into the Republican Leadership Conference was reported this way by the New York Times
First, he showed obscene photographs of Anthony Weiner, a Democrat who resigned his seat in Congress last week because of lewd pictures he sent to some of his Twitter followers. Then, the impersonator turned to the implosion of Mr. Gingrich’s campaign, after many of his aides resigned last week, saying: “His supporters are dropping faster than Antony Weiner’s pants.”
The Louisiana Republican Party explained by saying “our programs are obscene, why shouldn’t our humor be also?”
The
What does concern The Dismal Political Economist and others is that in order to drive the
And, in addressing a right wing group Michelle Bachmann asked the crowd
“So do you feel as rich as you did two years ago?”
"Absolutely, it’s been great" said the CEO dominated crowd.
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