Letters to the Editor
Elephantman
Published Letters: 1116 Editor's Choice: 15
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That's not how trial lawyers work.
[Read the article: A conversation with John Edwards]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Trial lawyers take cases for contingency fees. If you have been wronged, but your case doesn't involve big-money damages, top trial lawyers won't take your call or give you the time of day. Top trial lawyers don't do pro bono work, and they don't do landlord-tenant cases. They don't work on people's Social Security benefit claims, and they don't handle probate estates.
Here is what they do. Some of them, like John Edwards, take on cases for so-called 'birth trauma vicitms.' Those cases typically involve babies born with cerebral palsy, which is rarely associated with any kind of true 'birth trauma' or 'perinatal asphysxia.' The way Edwards settled and/or won those cases was with the help of lying hired-gun 'experts.' And Edwards made many, many millions doing it. Very much like the lawyers who pooled together thousands of 'asbestos victims,' some of whom had earlier been plaintiffs as 'silicosis victims.' Whatever you got as defendants, they want it as plaintiffs. And don't forget about the Bill Leraches of the world. Who gave us the whole class of million (billion)-dollar lawsuits over the decline of stock prices in a series of sleazy deals that brought his former firm into a criminal investigation.
These are world-class liars and cheats. "Ambulance-chasing" seems almost quaint as a descriptor of what thse good ol' boys are doing.
Anybody got a tally on how much money the national tobacco "settlement" brokered through a flock of Democrat state attorneys general has generated for the plaintiff lawyers (most of them former asbestos lawyers)? And how many of those millions were returned to the Democrat party in the form of donations?
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I keep asking, and no one at Salon is willing to answer;
[Read the article: Report: Gonzales aide resigns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...what if a President Hillary Clinton, in response to complaints from Texas Democrats (maybe a telephone call or two from Sheila Jackson Lee) replaced a Texas US Attorney who appeared to be too focused on prosecuting immigration cases, and not spending enough time and resources on proseucting voting-rights cases for minorities? Or maybe the attorney had been too aggressive in seeking the death penalty, to the extent that President Hillary was uncomfortable with the USA's performance. In doing so, President Hillary didn't interfere with any ongoing investigation, and didn't tell any US Attorney to start or stop any prosecutions. There would ha ve been no obstruction of justice in any sense of the word. President Hillary knew that the US Attorney that she was firing was a conservative Democrat or a progressive Republican that she had appointed herself earlier, and the the attorney in question was a capable prosecutor (indeed that is why the person got the job).
Would you all be hollering about how the DoJ had been politicized? Would you be calling for investigations?
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These college athletes deserved much better than having their reputations tarninshed by a political hack...
[Read the article: Rutgers women's basketball coach speaks out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, wait. I thought this was a thread about the Duke lacrosse team. Where does Salon host the "Duke Lacrosse Team Support Webpage"?
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Oh yeah, there's a difference alright...
[Read the article: Rutgers women's basketball coach speaks out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Rutgers women were the subject of a stupid slur. And they are now the subject of what appears to be a national apology network. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The Duke men have been accused of a felony. Oh, and they were also the subject of a lot of hate-speech, too. More than the Rutgers women. And some of it from the Duke faculty.
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April 11, 2007
[Read the article: Duke women not innocent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Innocent."
That was the word used by the Attorney General of North Carolina to describe the three Duke lacrosse players accused of rape, then, later, of reduced charges of sexual assault.
I understand that it is not the word Kevin Sweeney might use to describe the Duke lacrosse players, male and female, who rightly predicted that the accuser/stripper would be revealed to be an utterly unreliable liar with a significant criminal history.
But it is now the word that North Carolina's chief law enforcement officer applies to the formerly-accused players. "Innocent."
"I-N-N-O-C-E-N-T," an attorney for one of the formerly accused players spelled it out for the press gathered after the dismissal of all charges.
Innocent. Kevin, you know how to spell it now. And, you know where it is appropriately used.
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Bill Maher? "Elite?"
[Read the article: Say it loud: I'm elite and proud!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since when did anyone accuse Bill Maher of being an elite anything?
What law school did he attend?
Bill Maher isn't even an elite comedian.
He doesn't need to be concerned with anyone mistaking him for an 'elite.'
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One more try at offering the links that Salon and Blumenthal don't want you to know about...
[Read the article: Wolfowitz's girlfriend problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009948
And:
http://www.slate.com/id/2164368/
Only in the context of these two articles is the contemptible nature of Sidney Blumenthal's "journalism" evident.
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Maybe, the schools shouldn't be promoting any particular sides in the culture wars.
[Read the article: Intolerance greets national LGBT awareness day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is it good for left-wing organizations to be "promoting" school-based events, but not for right-wing organizations to do the same?
I might be rightfully entitled to think that if I wanted to organize a protest against a serious problem of violence, I would want to raise awareness of the the bloodthirsty subhuman jackals who bombed the markets of Baghdad over the past several weeks, killing hundreds of innocent Iraqis. There you have some serious social injustice, and some very serious violence. That might be something worth 'protesting.' Support for the Marines in killing, capturing and stopping the offending insurgents.
Or perhaps advocating a boycott of the nation of Zimbabwe, in order to protest the human rights abuses of the brutal dictator, Robert Mugabe? Or maybe advancing human rights in North Korea?
Why not a national day of silence and t-shirt wearing to raise concsiousness in support of Christians in the middle east, who have become ever-more marginalized? No prayers, just silence. Organized by a Christian advocacy group.
This is all about identity politics, and in my opinion the schools have had enough of it. But those who ride the First Amendment into the school day should not be heard to complain about opposing points of view under the same rule of law.