As The New York Times says: If Senator John Kerry had won the 2004 election, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito Jr., conservatives who have led the court to the right, would not be on the court. And last year’s devastating 5-to-4 ruling in the Citizens United case would likely not have happened. The case came to the Supreme Court as a limited question about interpreting a federal campaign-finance statute. In an aggressive act of judicial activism, the conservative majority made the case a constitutional matter and the signature of the Roberts court. Sweeping aside established precedents that had …Read more »
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The Supreme Court is a key reason that a Republican president is flatly unacceptable
Category: U.S. Supreme Court |
Beaten SF Giants’ fan Brian Stow at center of Dodgers bankruptcy proceedings
The Dodgers are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. As part of the proceedings, Major League Baseball wants owner Frank McCourt removed. And both sides are using Brian Stow – the Giants fan who was beaten almost to death by hoodlums outside Dodgers Stadium – as a symbol of their arguments, the L.A. Times reports. MLB says the attack on Stow is the inevitable result of McCourt’s taking millions of dollars from the Dodgers for personal use: stadium security was sparce, parking lot lighting was inadequate, and the front office was filled with newbies. The Dodger say Commissioner Bud Selig is stooping …Read more »
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Breakthrough in loan mods for Sonoma County, California borrowers
The White House has launched a major expansion of the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), as Reuters reports. The HARP program had been limited to borrowers whose homes were no more than 125 percent underwater. That made the program of extremely limited usefulness to borrowers who bought at the top of the market only to find their values at half of the mortgage amount. It should be relatively easy to qualify – just show you made the last six mortgage payments. And banks may be more willing to participate in loan mods than they were before: To encourage banks to …Read more »
Category: Loan Mods |
Really, this isn’t hard to understand
So, why does P.J. O’Rourke thinks it’s just about bongo drums???
Category: Occupy Wall Street |
About Occupy Santa Rosa (and the world)
So I attended Occupy Santa Rosa on Saturday and it was thrilling to see some 3,000 people, from hippies to vets, from working class to blue oxfords all carrying the same message. My sign? “Class Warfare Now,” which I’ll attempt to explain in a bit. First some media reporting (from the Press Democrat): A Santa Rosa woman who identified herself only as Darcy stood on the corner of First Street to protest the pending foreclosure of her house of 20 years. She and her husband both lost jobs and have been unable to negotiate lower payments, she said. “I’m fed …Read more »
Category: Occupy Wall Street |
Lawmakers take Californians’ housing woes to the White House
The response is pretty much exactly the reason for Occupy Wall Street – the failure of the Democratic Party – the one that controls the White House to take the pain of the broken economy seriously. Congressional Democrats met with Obama’s housing chief Edward DeMarco last week to demand stronger action on the travesty of underwater homes in California. His response was “tepid and defensive,” according to Rep. Anna Eshoo of Palo Alto. The Dems want to see homeowners able to refinance at today’s low interest rates rather than the high rates they originally financed at. That would mean less …Read more »
Category: Foreclosure |
Occupy Santa Rosa
So Occupy Santa Rosa is tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. The parade starts at Sonoma and Santa Rosa Ave. and will march on downtown streets. The City has denied the movement’s request to camp out downtown through Christmas Eve, the Press Demo reports but organizers on Facebook state that “So yeah, basically we aren’t “allowed” to camp out at city hall. Contingency plans are being worked out. Don’t worry, we aren’t going to cancel an occupation ” Not sure what that means but it could be interesting. If you’re not getting Occupy Wall Street perhaps some future posts will put matters …Read more »
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