Monthly Archives: April 2010
Ball point pen on todays newsprint On the heals of the harmful testimony by Goldman's chair Lloyd C. Blankfein. The GOP relented to mounting pressure and allowed the financial reform bill to move to the floor for debate. Shelby and other Republicans still have serious concerns about the sweeping reform and hope to make changes ...
Read MoreBall point pen on todays newsprint Today Senator Carl Levin, head of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, will present evidence that Goldman sold mortgage derivatives to it's clients and then profited by betting heavily that those investments would fail. So much for Goldman's motto “Our client's interests always come first.” ...
Read MoreBall point pen on todays newsprint Yesterday the Supreme Court overturned a federal law that made it a crime to create or sell dogfighting videos and other depictions of animal cruelty. Samuel Alito the lone voice defending said law argued that "videos depicting dogfights are essential to the success of the criminal dogfighting subculture." But John Roberts writing for the majority in the by 8 to 1 majority said "The First Amendment means the governments has no power to restrict expression because of it's message, it's idea's, it's subject matter or it's content." ...
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