The pharmacy tied to 707 cases of meningitis convinced Scott Brown (a Massachusetts Senator at the time) to come out against increased regulation of compounding pharmacies. The fundraiser they threw for him had nothing to do with his decision.
Pharmacy technician: Company tied to fatal meningitis outbreak ‘got sloppy’ | The Raw Story.
“The former finance boss of Lehman Brothers has revealed she deeply regrets the sacrifices she made for her job and told working women: ‘It’s not worth it’.”
I bring this up, not because I think women who want it all are wrong, or because I think a woman’s place is in the home, but because I think that those kinds of orthodoxies are wrong. Women who want to be captains of industry should go for it (though they should be aware of the tradeoffs).
I didn’t like it when Hillary Clinton said “I’m not sitting here as some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette,” I thought that was insulting to women who had made that choice. However, I did enjoy the irony of Hillary standing by her man, just like in the song.
Former NY Governor Elliot Spitzer’s wife “once bashed Hillary Rodham Clinton for staying with Bill after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.” But she, too, ended up standing by her man.
The troubled Hudson Yards project is perennially in need of cash and Bloomberg found some $9 million worth through creative accounting. The bill was supposed to be paid for by property taxes on new construction in the area, but the city decided to deem several pre-existing buildings as “new construction” so it could shift the tax dollars to prop up Hudson Yards.
Not only are there more SWAT teams than ever before, no one keeps tabs on how many there are and what they’re doing. Which the ACLU aims to fix by conducting a nationwide study to gather data on what’s actually going on.
And here’s the really bad news: the Obama administration has undertaken a massive increase in the amount of military gear it provides to local police agencies.
ACLU Launches Nationwide Police Militarization Investigation.
No really.
Fortunately, Attorney General Holder says that the Obama administration has “no intention of doing so,” which will really help me sleep at night.
Somewhere, Alberto “The Dungeon Master” Gonzales is wondering why everyone piled on him when he came out in support of torturing suspects in Guantanamo.
More bad news: It was nutty Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul who stood up to Holder, saying that Holder’s “refusal to rule out the possibility of drone strikes on American citizens and on American soil is more than frightening — it is an affront the Constitutional due process rights of all Americans.”
Eric Holder: Drone Strike To Kill U.S. Citizen On American Soil Legal, Hypothetically.
Washington state Rep. Ed Orcutt a ranking member of the State Transportation Committee, argues that bicycling is bad for the environment and says bike riders should have to pay a tax to help maintain the state’s roads.You won’t be surprised to learn that he’s a member of The Party That Makes Shit Up.
Washington State Rep. Ed Orcutt Says Bike Riders Pollute The Environment, Should Be Taxed.