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7 Feb 2009, 6:08 am
Yes, I’m glad that Congress is finally starting to *get* that we don’t have an unlimited amount of money to spend, but the attitude exhibited by folks like Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) who have talked themselves up by deciding that cutting spending is some how a remarkable feat is offputting. [read post]
6 Feb 2009, 4:44 pm
Several Macs in use too and more laptops being used by attendees at any conference I’ve ever been too (facilitated by the simple but brilliant move of the Texas Bar folks of arranging to have a power strip at EVERY table - how smart is that? [read post]
6 Feb 2009, 7:59 am
And there’s a decent number of tax folks and lawyers that read the blog. [read post]
6 Feb 2009, 5:30 am
And of further course, the National Academy of State Health Policy (whose board consists primarily of beareaucrats and educators, with no evidence of input from the private sector, let alone the insurance industry) is all for this, since it represents more money for state governments.What's so appalling to me is that we've come to a point where the NatHealth folks aren't even trying to hide or disguise their agenda. [read post]
5 Feb 2009, 8:08 pm
In which third-world nation? [read post]
5 Feb 2009, 8:04 am
I have been interviewed by various members of the MSM, including producers of major national TV shows, and all of them are shocked to learn a fact so basic as to be primitive. [read post]
5 Feb 2009, 1:56 am
This morning, President Barack Obama attended the annual National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton hotel. [read post]
4 Feb 2009, 10:31 pm
See also a three-part series titled, "Hope Deferred," that ran last year in the Lubbock Avalanche Journal.Tomorrow, there will be a legislative briefing at the capitol featuring some of the folks involved in the Cole case and a presentation by Gary Wells, the nation's leading expert on eyewitness identification errors, plus the Cole hearing will resume (and presumably, finish) Friday afternoon.Blogging will be light to nonexistent while all this is going on, but I… [read post]
4 Feb 2009, 9:01 am
Communication is difficult between and among IT folks, lawyers, and records professionals. [read post]
4 Feb 2009, 7:29 am
While I am disinclined to opine on the specifics of such matters, I am pleased the new folks in DC are concerned about how my tax dollars are being spent on Wall Street. [read post]
4 Feb 2009, 12:34 am
" Tax compliance, and the fiscal integrity of the nation, will be reduced to this sort of nonsense. [read post]
2 Feb 2009, 11:38 pm
They'll also be asking the Lege to require police to record custodial interrogations, and expand post-conviction access to the courts in cases involving debunked forensic science.Then, on Friday, the Innocence Project of Texas will hold a legislative staff briefing (in the Legislative Conference Center at the capitol) featuring a panel of folks involved in the Cole case and a presentation by Gary Wells, the nation's leading expert on eyewitness… [read post]
2 Feb 2009, 12:33 am
As for the use of the phrase "excessively high" compensation, remember that the folks getting these bonuses are the folks who engineered the economic calamity that continues to erode away the lives, health, and dignity of far too many Americans.Giuliani is correct that New York City tax revenues decline if the bonus is not paid. [read post]
1 Feb 2009, 5:23 pm
The National Legal and Policy Center, a watchdog group, has asked Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to investigate the Nov. 6-9 excursion to the island of St. [read post]
1 Feb 2009, 5:30 am
After all, he's now going to be responsible (at least in part) for much of our nation's health care system. [read post]
30 Jan 2009, 12:28 am
Unfortunately, we don't need some of the skills held by some of the folks who have lost their jobs. [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 7:29 pm
The current difficulty for private equity is that, while its willing to take risks with its capital, it wants to be convinced that the folks in charge aren't suffering from "The Mad Cow. [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 1:33 am
And in this economy, when so many folks are already working harder for less and struggling to get by, the last thing they can afford is losing part of each month's paycheck to simple and plain discrimination. [read post]
28 Jan 2009, 3:20 pm
Now available here via Stateline.org is an effective article about state struggles with prison costs appearing in the "State of the States 2009" publication put together by the folks at The Pew Center on the States. [read post]
28 Jan 2009, 4:46 am
Most folks have already been dramatically affected by this poor economy in one way or another. [read post]
