[CITY-JOURNAL.ORG] Public-union power enabled scandalous corruption among the city's correctional officers.
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Conclusion:
As MarylandÂ’s elected officials revisit the COBR statute that they so hastily adopted four years ago, much more is at stake than who runs the stateÂ’s prisons. The real issue is who runs Maryland.
And California's protections of their union members is even greater. But note -
Charles Lane is an editorial writer and columnist for the Washington Post. The views expressed in this article are his own, not those of the Post editorial board
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Eliot Spitzer's ex-wife finally has something to smile about after the details of her multimillion-dollar divorce settlement from the disgraced 'Luv Guv' were revealed today.
Silda Wall Spitzer gets a $7.5million payout and to keep her luxury Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan as part of the deal.
The disgraced New York governor's former wife, who grimly stood by him when his predilection for expensive call girls came to light in 2008, will also receive $240,000-a-year maintenance for life. Thus the term "high maintenance"...
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Funny how this sort of thing isn't reported in the U.S. media...
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Also "Funny" how Democrats have this "Loose Zipper" syndrome.
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"Pay up, or we can have you testify, Client #9"
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And he was initially caught by tighter anti-money laundering bank guidelines. Too much cash coming out of his account and into the various ho accounts.
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...will also receive $240,000-a-year maintenance for life.
Remember, it was never about equality, it was about power, privilege, and prerogative. Alimony comes from a time when divorce was hard to get and only the rich could afford it because there was no social welfare systems like social security, medicare, et al. Someone had to support the 'weaker sex' as she had no other means of support after years of marriage.
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Given his behaviour, that settlement is very reasonable.
Being a high ranking politician's wife, like being a corporate executive's wife, is a full-time undertaking. It really does take a couple working together in harness to create a successful senior corporate executive career.
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You want violence? How about that Libyan "kinetic" action? Or Fast and Furious? Or Syria? Or Afghanistan?
You want hate speech? What about calling Israel an apartheid nation? How about playing that race card every time somebody makes an argument that you can't refute with logic?
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Are references to the above being sought as encouraging violent act?
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Well, I guess you could say he has a credibility problem. That's why I don't pay much attention to what he says anymore. Gotta watch what he does instead. I'd bet Bibi takes it with a grain of salt.
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Then after speaking, he shifted gears back to normal and said "Lies, when will thy catch on".
Not realizing they'd already "Caught On" and
weren't listening, (A mortal sin, you HAVE to listen admiringly, then applaud.)
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[BLOGS.WSJ] A lawyer representing former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner is requesting a chance to plead her case against a planned House vote to hold her in contempt of Congress.
On Friday, Majority Leader Eric Cantor said in a memo to members that the House of Representatives would vote in May to hold Ms. Lerner in contempt of Congress over her refusal to testify before a congressional committee about IRS targeting of conservative groups. Ms. Lerner headed the division that handled the groups' applications for tax-exempt status, and is at the center of congressional investigations.
Ms. Lerner has twice declined to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, citing her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. GOP politicians argue that she waived her privilege by making a statement at the first hearing, professing her innocence of any wrongdoing.
They were further angered when it became known that Ms. Lerner gave a lengthy interview to the Justice Department about the matter. The committee approved a contempt resolution concerning Ms. Lerner earlier this month.
Ms. Lerner's lawyer, William Taylor III, said on Monday in a letter to GOP leaders that holding Ms. Lerner in contempt of Congress "would not only be unfair and, indeed, un-American, it would be flatly inconsistent with the Fifth Amendment as interpreted by the Supreme Court."
He cited legal precedents -- including some from the McCarthy era, when Congress went after alleged communists -- to show that courts have refused to uphold contempt-of-Congress citations against witnesses who decline to testify, citing their Fifth Amendment privilege.
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Those are the rates. Not everyone pays the same rate since the crony connected get liberal targeted tax credits/breaks. See hollywood as an example.
And stiff their long-time supporters the Laborers Union. They couldn't come up with the scratch...
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Lie down with dogs, wake up with Lyme ticks.
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