At Ground Zero, a Sham Memorial
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 7th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
At Ground Zero, a Sham Memorial
Michael Burke, New York Daily News
The con job at Ground Zero is not some lame memorabilia company selling fake coins. By focusing on easy targets like the National Collector's Mint, the media have missed the real fakery: the billion-dollar, 8-acre National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center. It is no more authentic than those infamous commemorative coins, but a lot more harmful to the memory of those who died there.The fact is that the memorial will include nothing of the 9/11 attacks or the World Trade Center. Remember the steel remnants of the destroyed towers? Visit the “9/11 Memorial…
How Health Reform Became ‘Ford Pinto’ Law
Jonathan Turley, USA Today
Updated | | ShareAfter last week's decision striking down the entire federal health care law as unconstitutional, the White House went into a full convulsive rage at Judge Roger Vinson of the Northern District of Florida. var data = blocks.columnist;if (data != undefined){document.getElementById('columnistmug').innerHTML=data;}By J. Scott Applewhite, APMedical reform: The president signs the health care bill into law in March 2010. EnlargeCloseBy J. Scott Applewhite, APMedical reform: The president signs the health care bill into law in…
Fate of Obama’s Health Law Rests With Kennedy
Ezra Klein, Newsweek
Justices Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court in October 2010.As of now, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is the most pivotal health-care policy thinker in America. Following district court Judge Roger Vinson's Jan. 31 ruling that declared President Obama's health-care-reform law unconstitutional, the plan has a solid 2"“2 record in the federal courts: two district judges have ruled for it, and two against. The odds are very good that it will eventually wind up in the Supreme Court. And once it gets there, odds are the bill's fate…
