The following is an excellent excerpt from the book “WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful” by Glenn Greenwald from Chapter 3 on page 120 and I quote: “Yet despite this close collaboration with the very industry most responsible for the financial crisis—or, more likely, because of that collaboration—Obama chose Geithner as his treasury secretary to shepherd the country out of the crisis that his Wall…

RE: Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA  2013 Commencement Speaker

MLK,Jr ('48 and I ('50) were not lucky enough to march into Sale Hall to hear you speak. Yet, we climbed two different mountaintops - King in Religion and Philosophy and I in Education and Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology. I hit the world press in March 1971 at a National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in LA, CA with a presentation of my research on "Hexachlorophene" that was being applied on New Born Babies…

The following is an excellent excerpt from the book “WITH LIBERTY and JUSTICE FOR SOME: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful” by Glenn Greenwald from Chapter 3 on page 101 and I quote: “In July 2010, Martin Joel Erzinger, a hedge fund manager for extremely wealthy investors at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, was driving his car near Vail, Colorado, when he hit a bicyclist from behind and then sped away.  The Vail Daily reported that the…

On Monday, the Associated Press revealed that the Department of Justice used subpoenas to obtain phone records of its editors and reporters from April and May 2012. The records were obtained due to the investigation and supposed leak to the AP last year that the CIA had ”thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.” The…

The following is an excellent excerpt from the book “BROKE, USA: From Pawnshops To Poverty, Inc.--How the Working Poor Became Big Business” by Gary Rivlin from Chapter Sixteen on page 296 and I quote: “Any list of the most successful third-wave companies would have to include Ameriquest mortgage, the lender that so aggressively fought Vincent Fort and Roy Barnes in Georgia and the outfit that the Wall Street Journal would single out when looking at the role…

The following is an excellent excerpt from the May 20, 2013 issue of The Nation from page 15 titled "How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank" by Gary Rivlin and I quote:

Regarding the abortion doctor convicted of murder. I do not dispute that particular case, but have a question about juries. If a juror honestly feels all abortions are murder as many neo con evangelicals do, can the accused get a truly fair trial?

The following is an excellent excerpt from the book “MORE THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR: Scott Walker, Unions and The Fight For Wisconsin” by Jason Stein and Patrick Marley from Chapter 16 on page 230 and I quote: “”This is a violation of law,” [Rep. Peter] Barca said.  “This is not just a rule.  It is the law.”  [Senator Scott] Fitzgerald slammed down the gavel.  “We're adjourned,” he said as he and the other Republicans stood and walked out.

The…

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The following is an excellent excerpt from the book “MORE THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR: Scott Walker, Unions and The Fight For Wisconsin” by Jason Stein and Patrick Marley from Chapter 13 on page 182 and I quote: “On Monday night, February 28, Jenni Dye lay down to sleep on the concrete outside the Capitol in the below-freezing weather in a sleeping bag that she had bought for the occasion.  Above her loomed the great columns of the east wing of the Capitol that held up…

The following is an excellent excerpt from the book “MORE THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR: Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight For Wisconsin” by Jason Stein and Patrick Marley from Chapter 12 on page 163 and I quote: “It was no ordinary debate that had so exhausted Representative Brett Hulsey.  After the last Assembly session, when Democrats had reacted angrily to Republican efforts to shut down discussion on Walker's proposal, Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald said Republicans would…

The following is an excellent excerpt from the book “MORE THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR: Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight For Wisconsin” by Jason Stein and Patrick Marley from Chapter 9 on page 122 and I quote: “At that moment, Gordon Hintz, a Democrat from Oshkosh, jogged into the chamber.  He had been standing in the Assembly's vestibule talking to a staffer when he realized the Republicans were doing more than just taking the roll.  He ran down the center aisle to his…

The following is an excellent excerpt from the book “MORE THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR: Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight For Wisconsin” by Jason Stein and Patrick Marley from Chapter  7 on page 92 and Chapter 8 on page 93 and I quote: “Like the other GOP senators, [Van] Wanggaard thought he would be voting on the bill within twelve hours, but it turned out that he was off by almost three weeks.  He had locked himself in just as the Democrats were about to spring a…

On Tuesday afternoon in Mississippi, Willie Jerome Manning was granted a last-minute stay of execution by the Supreme Court of Mississippi, just hours before his lethal injection was scheduled to go through....

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The following is an excellent excerpt from the book “MORE THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR: Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight For Wisconsin” by Jason Stein and Patrick Marley from Chapter 6 on page 63 and I quote: “Though they didn't predict the overwhelming demonstrations at the Capitol, [Peter} Barca and [Mark] Miller had good reason to expect a fight.  Miller grew up in the heart of Dane County with family members who were public workers.  Barca grew up the son of an…

The following is an excellent excerpt from the book “MORE THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR: Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight for Wisconsin” by Jason Stein and Patrick Marley from Chapter 5 on page 49 and I quote: “A blizzard was bearing down on Madison on February 1, 2011, and a political storm was gathering inside the Capitol.  Out of the clutches of the cold, Senate President Mike Ellis was tucked away in his elegant office just off the Senate floor, where the pictures on…

The following is an excellent article from Bloomberg's Businessweek of May 6- May 10, 2013 on page 70 titled "CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U,.S. Law and I quote:

I thought that when I joined this community, I woun't have to face insults the way I always have in the past. As some of you know, that hasn't been the case.

There are always some people that, no matter how much they think the people in a certain community will always agree with them, they MUST be the king of the mountain. I can understand people under 21 thinking like that, and I'll give them a whole decade to work through that attitude.

If you are over the age of 30 and feel…

The following is an excellent excerpt from the book “MORE THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR: Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight for Wisconsin” by Jason Stein and Patrick Marley from Chapter 4 on page 39 and I quote: “After Walker put forward his plan for ending collective bargaining two months later, there was a great deal of speculation about how or where he got it.  One possibility commonly mentioned by several critics was that Walker had taken it from the American…