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Breitbart.com : Judge says no to Obama subpoena in Blago case

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:06:55 +0000

You guys know that Judge Zagel is notoriously conservative, right? He's a former prosecutor, was appointed by Ronald Reagan, and is almost 70 years old. Not the sort of person who has any desire to leave his current job and move to DC to serve in the Obama administration.

Breitbart.com : Judge says no to Obama subpoena in Blago case

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:05:27 +0000

Actually, Judge Zagel is notoriously conservative. He's a former prosecutor and was appointed by Ronald Reagan. But whatever, believe what you want.

Breitbart.com : Judge says no to Obama subpoena in Blago case

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:04:28 +0000

Probably never, because he's 70 years old, a former prosecutor, and was appointed by Ronald Reagan. He's notoriously conservative. But whatever, believe what you want.

Breitbart.com : Dutch judge threatens fines for filesharing website

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:52:29 +0000

I think they mean some stuff is in the public domain and not subject to copyright. Like, any book by Charles Dickens, for example. Also, some artists simply elect NOT to seek copyright protection on their work, and allow people to trade it freely, like Grateful Dead concert recordings, etc.

Breitbart.com : Firefighter denounces Sotomayor ruling

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:42:07 +0000

To play devil's advocate then -- you're suggesting that someone can get a job in an upscale clothing store, for say, one shift a week -- a total of 8 hours work, and then have tax-deductible dry cleaning on a nice sweater that she now wears outside of work, so long as she maintains this part-time job and wears that sweater to it? By the way, her dry cleaning bills are now much higher. And a cashmere sweater is a UNIFORM? How would policemen or firemen feel about that? Or people in the army? Don't you think when congress drafted the tax code, they thought "uniform" would be defined as something in the latter camp? (by the way, this is a real case)

Breitbart.com : Firefighter denounces Sotomayor ruling

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:59:09 +0000

actually, there is pretty well established precedent that she referred to. But don't take my word for it: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?...

Breitbart.com : Firefighter denounces Sotomayor ruling

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:57:20 +0000

Actually... it kinda is. Let me ask you a specific question: the Internal Revenue Code says that if you have to purchase a uniform for your job, the costs of maintaining that uniform are tax deductible (e.g., dry cleaning costs, etc.). What about someone who works part-time at an upscale ladies clothing score, that gives it's employees discounts on clothing, but then forces them to wear the clothing from that store while working. Someone works there full time, and bought a lot of the nice clothes to wear at work, but lives a very boring life, and never wears the clothes outside of work. Can she deduct the maintenance costs of those clothes on her tax return? After all, she only bought the clothes because she had to for her job. On the other hand, can you really say that a $200 cashmere sweater she herself selected is a "uniform"? The IRS code just says uniforms are deductible. So what's the answer to my question - deduct or not?

Breitbart.com : Firefighter denounces Sotomayor ruling

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:46:25 +0000

Um? Are you serious. It was a hypothetical.

Breitbart.com : Sotomayor denies bias in \'wise Latina\' remark

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:31:54 +0000

A lot less than churches do.

Breitbart.com : Sotomayor denies bias in \'wise Latina\' remark

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:27:27 +0000

Actually, she received a scholarship from them. And since they're a private insitution no taxpayer's moeny was used.

Breitbart.com : Sotomayor denies bias in \'wise Latina\' remark

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:26:51 +0000

You may be right that she's a racist, but I personally have not seen enough evidence to suggest that. The "wise Latina" comment was taken from a speech in which she was referring to a Justice O'Connor quote from years earlier, which itself referred to a non-partisan, academic study, in which it was found that the Supreme Court prior to 1971 (which was made up - more or less - by white males) often reached what history later showed to be the "wrong" result on sexual and racial discrimination cases, and that were later overturned. So she said that she hopes, in that narrow historical context and referring only to that narrow breed of cases, that a Latina women would have reached the now-accepted conclusion in the first instance. I dunno.. I agree it sounds bad, but after reading the whole speech, it didn't bother me as much.

Breitbart.com : Sotomayor denies bias in \'wise Latina\' remark

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:39:52 +0000

Yes, I definitely agree that someone else who has scored higher on a standardized test was denied admission to Princeton because Sotomayor took that candidate's place. But what do you mean by "qualified"? Aside from her SATs, Sotomayor did excellently at a poor, urban high school in New York City. More importantly, she proved herself a worthy student at Princeton by excelling there. While it's certainly true this hypothetical other candidate could have done better, it's not likely that he or she could have done much better -- Sotomayor was in the very top of her class. Also, it seems safe to assume that this other candidate, who obviously worked very hard and was very smart, was able to convey that ethic into success at another one of our many fine colleges in this country. Is it not?

Breitbart.com : Sotomayor denies bias in \'wise Latina\' remark

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:38:18 +0000

I don't know if you saw my above comment, but you're right that she admitted she did poorly on her SATs and would have not gotten into Princeton without affirmative action. But after she got into Princeton, she got almost all A's and graduated summa cum laude. She was then accepted to Yale Law School -- one of the most selective schools in the world -- based entirely on her undergraduate record. She excelled at Yale as well, which is significant, because, Yale, like almost all law schools, grades all exams anonymously. Students are assigned unique numbers, and the professors have no way of knowing the identity of the student whose exam he or she is grading. 98% or so of each student's grade is based on these anonymous exams.

Breitbart.com : Sotomayor denies bias in \'wise Latina\' remark

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:24:55 +0000

Actually, Yale, like almost all law schools, grades all exams anonymously. Students are assigned unique numbers, and the professors have no way of knowing the identity of the student whose exam he or she is grading. 98% or so of each student's grade is based on these anonymous exams.

Breitbart.com : Sotomayor denies bias in \'wise Latina\' remark

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:15:44 +0000

Nothing, seeing as how W went to Yale University (which accepts several thousand kids each year) and got mostly C's, while Sotomayor went to Yale Law School (which accepts about a hundred kids or so), and excelled. In fact, the admissions staff, standards, and practices at Yale Univers. and Yale Law School are completely separate and independent of one another. While both institutions are of course related in other areas, admissions is not one of them.

Breitbart.com : Sotomayor denies bias in \'wise Latina\' remark

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:09:39 +0000

That's right. She admitted she did poorly on her SATs and that she would have not gotten into Princeton without affirmative action. Of course, after she got into Princeton, she got almost all A's and graduated summa cum laude. She was then accepted to Yale Law School -- one of the most selective schools in the world -- based entirely on her undergraduate record.

Breitbart.com : Mysterious tremors detected on San Andreas Fault

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:35:45 +0000

It amuses me to no end that conservdiots don't seem to realize how manipulated they are.

Breitbart.com : Mysterious tremors detected on San Andreas Fault

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:40:44 +0000

You know, You're right. she absolutely DID scare me, just as anyone who chooses to attract followers by spreading fear and hate would. But then she showed the world her true colors by selling out her followers and quitting public office in order to make a quick buck on the book circuit. Now I just feel kind of sorry for her.

Breitbart.com : Mysterious tremors detected on San Andreas Fault

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:04:24 +0000

Maybe you should look up hypocrisy in the dictionary. The difference is that liberals believe all people should have the basic freedom to be allowed to live their lives and prosper in a fair environment of their choice, while the conservatives believe that everyone should live their lives the way a small group of conservatives think they should. So long as conservatives have the egos to force their narrow beliefs on the rest of the country, and then FAIL to even live by their own teachings, that means they're fair game. And besides, no one joked about sex with her minor daughter -- that was just a lie Palin came up with, like (1) when she lied about how Alaska wildlife officials showed that polar bears were not endangered, when in fact, email correspondence between those scientists showed the opposite, (2) she repeatedly claimed to have said, "Thanks, but no thanks" to the Bridge to Nowhere, but in fact, she openly campaigned for the federal project when running for governor, (3) she told voters she improvised her convention speech when her teleprompter stopped working properly, but, in fact, all reports showed that the machine had functioned perfectly and that her speech had closely followed the script (4) when she denied having rejected federal stimulus money, when, in fact, she continued to accept and reject the funds several times, and so on and so on.

Breitbart.com : Mysterious tremors detected on San Andreas Fault

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 19:46:26 +0000

You can't blame the drudgies. It's like blaming a dog that's been trained to fight, for fighting. It's really our own fault for not teaching them better in the first place. Until the educational system in this country is at a tolerable level, you'll have people like this. Luckily they're in the vast minority, so I wouldn't worry too much about what a bunch of kooks from the back country think -- there's bigger problems in this world.