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Out in the world today, The Metropolitan Police of London have used the Official Secrets Act to demand and require that the Guardian turn over information about their sources in the Murdoch empire phone-hacking scandal.
A judge unfroze an $18 billion USD penalty against Chevron for environmentally hazardous waste dumping in Ecuador, for which the company called the judgement "fraudulent".
Elections in the Arab Spring regions have not yet produced a giant amount of democratic reform, but the big players have not yet done theirs, either.
Bankers worldwide are bracing for the possible impact of a default of Greek sovereign debt, fearing it could be the domino that collapses another significant chunk of the financial world.
For slightly lighter fare, a temporary posting on a college's directory included a profile page for one Dr. Conan T. Barbarian.
In the United States, The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is dead! Rejoice and cheer. And then, think about all the people that the policy has fired and destroyed. What do you do with them?. Reinstatement would be a good start, if they still want to serve. It's repeal day, nonetheless.
In Georgia, on 21 September, a man who has had several witnesses against him recant is still slated to be killed. The evidence that his conviction was in error has mounted significantly, but his appeals have not won him clemency up to the point of this post.
Rasmussen reports on the effectiveness of anti-union points of view, with almost half of the surveyed populace indicating they felt unions had outlived their usefulness, and with most of them likely enjoying the hard-won fruits of labor solidarity. Yet so many people hate their jobs for reasons that having organized labor would mitigate somewhat - crap wages, crap working condition, and the idea of "right to work".
In technology, a demonstration of a possible exploit of a known vulnerability in old versions of security protocols, one fixed in later versions but still a possible issue based on the significant deployment of older items to make stuff work. (Which are apparently incompatible with upgrading their versions?)
And opinions, where Mr. Chapman suggests that the President not stand for re-election, because he's completely doomed, even if he gets re-elected, because the Republicans will do their very best to make sure his day is awful all the time. Mr. Kudlow would like to see Mayor Bloomberg be a Republican, instead of an Obama supporter, because Obama supporters are desperate enough to suggest that economic problems might create riots. Y'know, like the ones in Europe. The ones where Mr. Stephens believes there will be riots, and then recapitalizations, and then a return to hard money and austerity, and then eventually Europe will stabilize again, as the United States will.
Regarding the possible readjustment of the tax brackets. the WSJ suggests that the richest Americans actually do pay the highest tax rates, in income taxes and capital gains taxes, which should have the corporate tax rate added to them, too, and that any attempts to bend the tax code to catch those rich people will only hurt the middle class, and won't dent the deficit any, anyway. Maybe, then, they'd be willing to have all those nice loopholes closed so that they'll pay something actually close to the advertised rate? Or, instead, they'll threaten that they's stop giving so much money to charitable causes because it won't be as tax-deductible any more. Which suggests they weren't actually all that interested in those charitable causes in the first place.
Last out, Mr. Stossel wants us to believe that the power of The Market can reform the public education system and make it better. Apparently by getting rid of the unions, as they're apparently the major thing getting in the way of necessary reform. Mr. Ahlert can at least point to a incidents of major violence over contract disputes in his criticism of unions.
And last for tonight, Mr. Schoen demonstrates the ignorance of the American public about public workers and services, and then says we should base policy decisions on that very same ignorance, because it's the ignorance of the majority.
A judge unfroze an $18 billion USD penalty against Chevron for environmentally hazardous waste dumping in Ecuador, for which the company called the judgement "fraudulent".
Elections in the Arab Spring regions have not yet produced a giant amount of democratic reform, but the big players have not yet done theirs, either.
Bankers worldwide are bracing for the possible impact of a default of Greek sovereign debt, fearing it could be the domino that collapses another significant chunk of the financial world.
For slightly lighter fare, a temporary posting on a college's directory included a profile page for one Dr. Conan T. Barbarian.
In the United States, The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is dead! Rejoice and cheer. And then, think about all the people that the policy has fired and destroyed. What do you do with them?. Reinstatement would be a good start, if they still want to serve. It's repeal day, nonetheless.
In Georgia, on 21 September, a man who has had several witnesses against him recant is still slated to be killed. The evidence that his conviction was in error has mounted significantly, but his appeals have not won him clemency up to the point of this post.
Rasmussen reports on the effectiveness of anti-union points of view, with almost half of the surveyed populace indicating they felt unions had outlived their usefulness, and with most of them likely enjoying the hard-won fruits of labor solidarity. Yet so many people hate their jobs for reasons that having organized labor would mitigate somewhat - crap wages, crap working condition, and the idea of "right to work".
In technology, a demonstration of a possible exploit of a known vulnerability in old versions of security protocols, one fixed in later versions but still a possible issue based on the significant deployment of older items to make stuff work. (Which are apparently incompatible with upgrading their versions?)
And opinions, where Mr. Chapman suggests that the President not stand for re-election, because he's completely doomed, even if he gets re-elected, because the Republicans will do their very best to make sure his day is awful all the time. Mr. Kudlow would like to see Mayor Bloomberg be a Republican, instead of an Obama supporter, because Obama supporters are desperate enough to suggest that economic problems might create riots. Y'know, like the ones in Europe. The ones where Mr. Stephens believes there will be riots, and then recapitalizations, and then a return to hard money and austerity, and then eventually Europe will stabilize again, as the United States will.
Regarding the possible readjustment of the tax brackets. the WSJ suggests that the richest Americans actually do pay the highest tax rates, in income taxes and capital gains taxes, which should have the corporate tax rate added to them, too, and that any attempts to bend the tax code to catch those rich people will only hurt the middle class, and won't dent the deficit any, anyway. Maybe, then, they'd be willing to have all those nice loopholes closed so that they'll pay something actually close to the advertised rate? Or, instead, they'll threaten that they's stop giving so much money to charitable causes because it won't be as tax-deductible any more. Which suggests they weren't actually all that interested in those charitable causes in the first place.
Last out, Mr. Stossel wants us to believe that the power of The Market can reform the public education system and make it better. Apparently by getting rid of the unions, as they're apparently the major thing getting in the way of necessary reform. Mr. Ahlert can at least point to a incidents of major violence over contract disputes in his criticism of unions.
And last for tonight, Mr. Schoen demonstrates the ignorance of the American public about public workers and services, and then says we should base policy decisions on that very same ignorance, because it's the ignorance of the majority.
