US Supreme Court overrules Kansas Supreme Court 7-2.
April 29th. As reported earlier, today the United States Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Kansas Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision. The case of Kansas v. Ventris revolved around whether prosecutors could use evidence gained in admitted violation of the 6th Amendment right to counsel to impeach a defendants testimony at trial (i.e. where a defendant claimed one thing in their testimony, could the prosecution bring otherwise inadmissible evidence in to show that the defendant was likely lying). The Kansas Supreme Court had said "No", the U.S. Supreme Court said "Yes".
MP: Given the national taxpayer outrage and foul mood this week about big-spending politicians, imagine if they went to the voting polls this week, or even this month?
Unfortunately, taxpayer outrage about Big Government usually coincides closely with Tax Day in April, which is way far away from Voting Day in November. As the graphic above shows, it's been 162 days since we last voted in November 2008, and it will be 202 days before the next election, so Tax Day and Voting Day are almost as far apart as two recurring annual dates can be.
Here's an idea: Move Tax Day and Voting Day much closer together, like perhaps in the same month or same week, instead of being about 6 months apart. Couldn't we vote in April or pay taxes in November?
Created in 2004 by Congress, the DCOSP provides disadvantaged students living in the nation's capital tuition scholarships to attend private school. The federal legislation creating the program required a rigorous evaluation to determine the program's impact on participating children's education. This included a randomized-experiment trial comparing the outcomes of a treatment group (students who were offered scholarships through a lottery) and a control group (students who applied but were not offered vouchers through the lottery).
On April 3, the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences released the results of the third-year evaluation of the program. Importantly, the evaluation found a statistically significant positive effect for the treatment group in reading. Specifically, students who had been offered vouchers were performing at statistically higher levels in reading, after approximately three months of additional learning. The report also found that families who had been offered a voucher were more satisfied with their children's school and safety.
Because of JCCC's dishonesty and the use of taxpayer money to mislead and intimidate, Hodge called for Mitchelson and Brown-VanArsdale to resign from positions of leadership at JCCC, and for Mitchelson to resign as a representative to the Johnson County Research Triangle (JCRT).
JCCC attorney Mark Ferguson misled the public at the March meeting by stating that he performed a "complete review" of the February 19 board meeting (the meeting at which occurred a likely violation of the law). The Ledger reports that Ferguson, as part of the "complete review," not only did not talk with Trustee Benjamin Hodge — who initially reported the open meetings problems — but did not even make Hodge aware that Ferguson was performing an investigation. Keep in mind that Ferguson does not represent Calaway, but the college — which is the board. Ferguson is Hodge's client, and Ferguson — at the request of a politically-motivated Calaway — unprofessionally performed a misleading, incomplete, and probably pre-determined review without informing Hodge that it was taking place. Ferguson also is for the first time ever competing for his own job in a mere two months, and the attorney knows that Hodge is among the least likely to renew his contract.
Most Americans (54%) say that if you earn $50,000 a year, you're in the middle-income bracket. But the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 32% say you'd qualify as a lower-income household.
Just four percent (4%) say $50,000 a year qualifies as poverty level while six percent (6%) say it's upper-income or wealthy.
There is a - drumroll, please - demographic element to the automobile question. Europeans often ask, "Why do Americans need those big cars?" The short answer is: Because Americans have kids and Europeans don't. So Italians and Spaniards and Germans (and Japanese) can drive around in things the size of a Chevy Suburban's cupholder because they've got nothing to put in them.
With the annual ritual of filing federal income taxes just behind them, 52% of U.S. voters now believe they pay more than their fair share of taxes, up seven points from earlier this month.
But 54% of the Political Class don't think they pay too much, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
This is hardly reassuring, however, since 55% don't think most members of Congress pay all the taxes they owe.
Just 29% of all Americans say they don't pay their fair share in taxes, and 19% are not sure.
Sixty percent (60%) of voters nationwide believe tax cuts help the economy, while 15% say they hurt and 14% say they have no impact.
See this from the Washington Times.
The Commerce Department ostensibly controls the census and keeps politics out of it. However, Ellen Moran is a far left radical. She's the former ED of Emily's list, worked for DNC, DCCC, and AFL-CIO. Her resume is straight out of left-wing activism, not communications.
Putting a loyal lieutenant standing behind Gary Locke is the perfect way to ensure the Census makes up inaccurate numbers to better help the Democrats in the coming census.
Poor Keith! First the big kids refuse to invite him into their little club, and now they're trashing him out in the open!
On cable news, I am a fan of Keith and Rachel. But he wastes too much time p***ing on Bush and his deposed cronies. She is smart and charming but her writers are dreadful and the less cutesy she is, the better. She did an excellent interview with Colin Powell recently. The next night, I missed that tougher, less avuncular Rachel. A while back, the idea of sitting down at another screen and getting my evening news seemed unappealing. Now I sit and watch Rachel and Keith while I do my e-mail and read Slate and HuffPo online.
But something has changed again. I'm back to buying the Times. I think others should get back to buying and reading a newspaper, too.