Karl Rove Was Behind Nixon’s Orwellian “New Federalism” July 14, 2007
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• A Feb. 15, 1973, letter and accompanying document from Karl Rove (now President Bush’s top strategist) to Anne Armstrong, counselor to the president, thanking her for meeting with him and laying out his suggestions for a “1974 election program.” That prescription focused on “new federalism,” or the scaling back of the federal government and shifting of authority back to the states.
Except that Nixon’s “New Federalism” did just the opposite. By addicting state governments to Federal subsidies ostensibly for decentralization, they eventually started chewing on the stick affixed to that carrot, the stick being (to this day) ever-increasing Federal mandates about everything from the temperature of the soup to the size of the nuts, as a condition of the Federal money.
St. Louis County Prosecutor Is Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish July 14, 2007
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
A jury fixed the punishment Friday at death by lethal injection for Vincent McFadden in the fatal street shooting of Todd Franklin in Pine Lawn five years ago.
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In closing arguments Friday, defense attorney Karen Kraft emphasized the testimony of Wanda Draper, a Texas-based expert on childhood and human development. Draper said McFadden had never had a chance to bond with his parents. They were not around when McFadden was a child and that affected “the roots of his morality.”
“Dad was never there, never, and neither was mom,” Kraft said. “He had people who cared about him, but it wasn’t enough.”
Citing prosecutor Keith Larner’s arguments about human life being sacred, Kraft told the eight men and four women: “You do not have to participate in the death of another human being. You can choose life.”
Larner countered that grandparents, aunts and uncles had helped a mother who worked two jobs to raise McFadden, now 27, and two sisters. McFadden was never abused or mistreated as a child, Larner said, and juvenile court officers had provided the teenage McFadden with numerous chances to turn his life around.
While Mr. Larner’s retort was procedurally wise, in that it demonstrated that Mr. McFadden was raised by theoretically responsible adults, it was substantively foolish, because he prostrated himself to the notion that those who do are not raised by responsible parents or close relatives cannot possibly be evil enough to premeditate the murder of another human being such that he can be executed for the crime.
July 12, 2007: A Day That Will Live In Infamy July 14, 2007
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Even though Walgreens is doing well right now, and when traveling through St. Louis City, it seems as if there is a city ordinance that requires there to be at least one Walgreens at every perpendicular junction of major boulevards, when Walgreens declares bankruptcy in a decade or two, it will look back and discover that July 12, 2007 was the beginning of the end.
For on that day, it hoisted the “Kick Me” sign on its corporate back, and pointed its back toward the black civil rights community. In other words, it has communicated the message that it is weak, and can be bowled over, and that every black patron or employee that gets winked at the wrong way inside a Walgreens can go for the big payday.
Tintin Sells Sells, Because of CRE Row July 14, 2007
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LONDON (AFP) - Sales of a Tintin comic book have rocketed since the Commission for Racial Equality claimed it was racist, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Sales of “Tintin in the Congo” have shot up by 3,800 percent after the CRE watchdog claimed it contained potentially highly offensive material, said The Daily Telegraph.
The comic has reached number eight on Internet retailer Amazon’s most popular books list, the broadsheet reported.
A CRE spokesman accepted that its interjection could have sparked the rise in sales.
“Could have?” What else could have done it? Did Tintin fill in for Fry on A Bit of Fry and Laurie? Maybe he filled in for Hyacinth’s husband on Keeping Up Appearances.
Actually, at the time of this wrting, Tintin in the Congo is up to number 5 on Amazon UK. It changes hourly, so stay tuned.
