| THE TANKLEFF CASE: Not off the hook, yet
March 2006. Suffolk County Judge Stephen Braslow rejects motion for new trial.
May. An appellate court in Brooklyn agrees to hear appeal of Braslow's rejection.
December 2007. Appellate Division orders new trial, citing new evidence "of such character ... that had such evidence been received at the trial the verdict would have been more favorable to the defendant."
Jan. 18, 2008. A hearing before Suffolk County Judge Robert W. Doyle is scheduled. previous 1 2 3 More articles Help a family on Long Island. Donate to Newsday Charities. Copyright © 2008, Newsday Inc. .
Ron Paul 2008(R)
He states that the "inflation tax" is a tax on the poor, because the Federal Reserve prints more money which subsidizes select industries, while poor people pay higher prices for goods as more money is placed in circulation.[66] His warnings of impending economic crisis and a loss of confidence in the dollar in 2005 and 2006 were at the time derided by many economists, but accelerating dollar devaluation in 2007 has led experts like former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan to reconsider Paul's hard money policies. [edit] Opposition to inflation and the Federal Reserve Paul adheres deeply to Austrian school economics and libertarian criticism of fractional-reserve banking, opposing fiat increases to money in circulation;[67] he has authored six books on the subjects, has pictures of classical liberal economists Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, and Ludwig von Mises hanging on his office wall,[68][69] and is a distinguished counselor to the Mises Institute.[70] Paul opposes inflation as an underhanded form of taxation, because it takes value away from the money that individuals hold without having to directly tax them.
It’s Time to Hold Democratic House Leaders in Contempt
Enough is enough. Like many of us, after having watched helplessly as the Bush administration trampled the Constitution and made a mockery of checks and balances over the course of five bitter years, I was hopeful when the American people elected a Democratic Congress in November of 2006. Finally, I imagined, we would have a whiff of legality and the hint of a restoration of the rule of law in the land. Perhaps we would even have congressional committees to oversee the administration's subversions of the rule of law and investigate the wide range of abuses that it had perpetrated since 2001. There has been a bit of movement — which is why the thousands of Americans I have met who are appalled at these abuses but feel powerless to raise their voices effectively should take heart, but not stop their fight.
Moving day errr month
I have lost all my older relatives, my spouse died, I have suffered breast cancer and last month a snow plow totaled my car. Pretty stressful, huh? Not nearly as stressful as what has been happening in my life for the past month. I have been moving. .
Education notes
SMU receives $5 million gift: Dallas business leader Edwin L. Cox has donated $5 million to support merit-based undergraduate scholarships in the school that bears his name – the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. The gift will serve as a challenge grant to stimulate additional contributions toward a $10 million endowment fund for the Cox School's B.B.A. Scholars Program. .
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