Another Tired Ad from Rove #RINO #Fail

As if Obama-the-Leveler doesn't H8 American market capitalism, liberty

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High-Minded Progs H8 People

One person's journey from ignorant Marxist to wise Libertarian

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Boies In Labor-State Carcass-Picking

Decay of Prog social model attracts pernicious scavengers

Rhode Island’s blue-on-blue showdown is heating up. Famed litigator David Boies is taking a 96 percent pay cut to represent the state against recalcitrant public sector unions.

Public unions and their allies maintain that state pensions are owed, intact, to their recipients, and that any tinkering with benefits amounts to theft and criminal breach of contract. Boies and others disagree. The New York Times reports:

“There’s no contract,” he said. “Even if there was a contract, the state, pursuing the public interest, has the right to modify contracts.”

Cities, states and their lawyers around the country are following the case avidly, said Amy B. Monahan, a law professor at the University of Minnesota who has written extensively on legal aspects of employee benefits. Many are wondering whether their own pension systems are sustainable, she said, and if not, how to make them so.

As the blue social model decays, the coalition that was once united behind it is becoming increasingly splintered and parochial. Boies, known for representing Al Gore, waging antitrust battles against Microsoft, and fighting California’s Proposition 8 in federal court, has impeccable bona fides as a liberal Democrat. But in the face of economic realities, he and other blue liberals are being forced to make fundamental choices about their values and goals.

(full story at blogs.the-american-interest.com)

Doctors' Trial, Harry Gold, Blago Busted

On this day: December 9

The "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" began with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation (1946)

Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union; his testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1950)

General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company (1953)

The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with him being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization (1961)

Gov. of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama (2008)

b: Peter Kropotkin (1842); d: Walter Liggett (1935), Leon Jaworski (1982), Paul Simon (2003)

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