"It wasn't a miscalculation; he simply omitted his wife's source of income for six years, which is a rather dramatic omission," Gillers said. "It could not have been an oversight."

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"Without disclosure, the public and litigants appearing before the court do not have adequate information to assess potential conflicts of interest, and disclosure is needed to promote the public's interest in open, honest and accountable government," Common Cause President Bob Edgar wrote in a letter to the Judicial Conference of the United States.

The allegation comes days after Common Cause filed a letter requesting that the Justice Department investigate whether Justices Thomas and Antonin Scalia should have disqualified themselves from hearing a campaign finance case after they reportedly attended a private meeting sponsored by Charles and David Koch, billionaire philanthropists who fund conservative causes.

In the case, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, the court ruled that corporate and union funds could be spent directly on election advertising.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Michele Bachmann has a promise: $2 gas.

"Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again," Bachmann told a crowd Tuesday in South Carolina. "That will happen."

Even with the economy obviously struggling, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity still feel the need
to shamelessly mislead their listeners into thinking that President Obama's stewardship of the economy
has been even worse than they realized. Last week, Pigboy claimed Obama "inherited" an unemployment
rate of 5.7 percent. Last night, Sean Hannity echoed Limbaugh, except that Hannity's figures say that
Obama inherited a slightly better 5.6 percent unemployment rate.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in January of 2009 was 7.8 percent.

So what exactly is going on here? Did Limbaugh and Hannity really just make up a number out of whole cloth?
Of course not — they merely found a completely irrelevant number and used that.

Published on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 by Rolling Stone
Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?
A whistleblower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals.

by Matt Taibbi
Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean every time the cops fail to make a case. No more Lifetime channel specials where the murderer is unveiled after police stumble upon past intrigues in some old file – "Hey, chief, didja know this guy had two wives die falling down the stairs?" No more burglary sprees cracked when some sharp cop sees the same name pop up in one too many witness statements. This is a different world, one far friendlier to lawbreakers, where even the suspicion of wrongdoing gets wiped from the record.


That, it now appears, is exactly how the Securities and Exchange Commission has been treating the Wall Street criminals who cratered the global economy a few years back. For the past two decades, according to a whistle-blower at the SEC who recently came forward to Congress, the agency has been systematically destroying records of its preliminary investigations once they are closed. By whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals, the SEC has kept an entire generation of federal investigators in the dark about past inquiries into insider trading, fraud and market manipulation against companies like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and AIG. With a few strokes of the keyboard, the evidence gathered during thousands of investigations – "18,000 ... including Madoff," as one high-ranking SEC official put it during a panicked meeting about the destruction – has apparently disappeared forever into the wormhole of history....

Many lakes and reservoirs across the state are badly depleted after more than a month of 100-degree temperatures and less than 1 inch of rain. Robert Lee's water supply lake is fast becoming a mud hole. The worst-off communities are already trying to run pipes to distant water lines, drilling emergency wells and banning water use for virtually anything beyond drinking, bathing and keeping businesses working.

Equating Nazism with the GOP. This proves the desperation of today's radical left. Gary, you are the first in quite some time on the Taco to validate Godwin's Law. Congratulations Comrade

Christine O'Donnell: Piers Morgan was sexually harassing me
August 19, 2011 | 9:17 am

Christine O'Donnell is defending her decision to walk off Piers Morgan's CNN show by saying he was asking sexually harassing questions -- including "sex questions that he would not ask of a man."

The former U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware has said that women in politics -- particularly Republican women -- are held to a double standard and suggested that that's precisely what happened Wednesday night when she and her staff put a halt to the interview. She said on the "Today Show Friday morning that the public was misled to believe that it was the questions Morgan was asking about her position on gay marriage and the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that drove her off the set.

"It was not about the questions of gay marriages, as the producer very dishonestly tried to portray it. It was ... the very inappropriate, creepy line of questioning leading up to that. And I think that I was a very good sport for the first 20 minutes," she said. But it was questions that he'd asked just moments before the gay rights issues -- including one about masturbation -- that unnerved her. "Do you still think masturbation is wrong?" he asked, followed by "Have you committed lust in your heart?"

She was so upset from those questions that she realized the interview had little chance of getting back on track.

"When they're sitting there pressing you on personal intimate questions and you're saying, 'I don't want to go there,' he could have said, 'What's your mother's name?' and I would have been like, 'Come on, let's stop!' I wanted to stop that borderline sexual harassment that was going on. It was inappropriate and he wasn't stopping."

She said it had nothing to do with the issue of gay marriage or gay rights. (She says her position is that states and churches have the right to decide how to handle such issues for themselves.) "It really is not about that question, it was about he put me in a position that was very awkward and very uncomfortable and we were late."

O'Donnell said she was getting the "wrap-it-up" signal off stage and realized she needed to be heading to her next stop, a meeting with a group of Republican women in Manhattan, no doubt a far friendlier audience.

She said that "very inappropriate, creepy line of questioning" would never have been directed at a man. When the interviewer pointed out that these were issues that O'Donnell had written about in her book -- "Trouble Maker" -- which was the very book that she was promoting on the show, O'Donnell said there was a keen distinction that was being overlooked.

O'Donnell said the book discusses the context of her positions on abstinence and masturbation, and comments she made while being interviewed back in the 1990s, "I addressed the questions [in the book] and I put it in context that, 'No, I would not do that interview again.'" Morgan, she said, took it one step beyond, and started making the queries personal -- and in the present tense, with questions that "[go] into a personal nature and start prying."

The same would never happen with a man, she said.

"Imagine if Bill Clinton were there," O'Donnell told the "Today Show." "Would he ask him, 'Do you still hang out with Monica Lewinsky? Come on, we talked about it in the '90s. Come on, do you still have that fascination with cigars, Bill?'"

While O'Donnell has accused Morgan of trying to garner ratings with his questions, she denied that she had book selling on her mind this week. She added: "Oh, please! I didn't even want to do the Piers Morgan show quite honestly because I knew that he resorts to these dirty tricks."

All that controversy aside, which is no doubt helping fuel book sales, O'Donnell said during the interview that she does not know if she will run for office again.

You give people, all people, so little credit.

The son of sharecroppers...... Clarence Thomas


The son of janitors.............. Colin Powell
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