Kelly J
09-26-2008, 12:59 PM
This Issue is one that should be read in it's entirety, but because of it's length I would suggest you go to the Web Site to read it, I have included a couple of topics for you, here.
http://patriotpost.us/
From the Left: Obama and the Free Radical
It turns out the empty suit that is Barack Obama isn’t so empty after all—it’s full of skeletons (our apologies for the mixed metaphor). In a Wall Street Journal editorial this week, Ethics and Public Policy Center senior fellow Stanley Kurtz uncovered the latest set of bones, noting that although Obama had authored two autobiographies, the Chosen One had never written about his “most important executive experience” —serving as Chairman of the Board for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Why omit this shining example of the Great Community Organizer’s leadership of an institution that pumped more than $100 million into his community? Well, perhaps it’s related to his close association at CAC with Bill Ayers, the unrepentant domestic terrorist and former Weather Underground member.
We have previously exposed Ayers’s extensive history with this 60s-era radical leftist faction, a group that advocated and executed actions aimed at violently overthrowing the U.S. government. Ayers only narrowly dodged prosecution for his role in Weather Underground on a serendipitous legal technicality. Years later, in the mid-90s, Ayers would help establish CAC, whose ostensible goal was to improve Chicago schools. In reality, Kurtz notes, “CAC’s agenda flowed from [Ayers’s] educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism.”
During the Democrat primary debates earlier this year in Philadelphia, Obama disavowed ties to Ayers, claiming, “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood... He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from [sic] on a regular basis.” However, Kurtz points out that CAC archives clearly show that Ayers and Obama were partners: “As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle.” Sen. Obama is apparently eager to keep this particular skeleton from seeing the light of day, as evidenced by his attempts to characterize good-faith inquiries into ties with Ayers as “guilt-by-association” attacks. Still, as Kurtz stresses, this isn’t about guilt by association: It’s about guilt by participation—in this case, with the free radical Bill Ayers.
CULTURE
Around the nation: New York gun suit
In 2006, the city of New York sued 27 small gun retailers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Georgia and South Carolina, claiming that their illegal gun sales and lax screening practices created a public nuisance in the city. Recently, the last of the 27 defendants reached an out-of-court settlement with the city. In the settlement, the holdout agreed to tougher rules for selling guns based on the stricter standards Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest gun seller, adopted earlier this year in a voluntary agreement with a group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
What impact might the Wal-Mart code have on the potential liability of gun retailers in general? A case taught in torts class in every law school may shed some light on the subject. In 1932, what is known as “The T.J. Hooper case” involved the loss of tugs and barges at sea because the tugs where not outfitted with radio receivers which would have enabled them to receive a weather-warning broadcast by the weather service. Had they received the warning they would have sought shelter. In 1932, radio receivers were new and most tugs did not have them. The decision rendered by the great jurist Learned Hand held that the lack of radio receivers was the direct cause of the loss of the tugs and barges. The case has been interpreted as where the custom and usage of an entire industry is below the standard of reasonable care, it cannot be used as a defense. In other words, the Wal-Mart code may set the new standard for custom and usage for the retailing of firearms.
http://patriotpost.us/
From the Left: Obama and the Free Radical
It turns out the empty suit that is Barack Obama isn’t so empty after all—it’s full of skeletons (our apologies for the mixed metaphor). In a Wall Street Journal editorial this week, Ethics and Public Policy Center senior fellow Stanley Kurtz uncovered the latest set of bones, noting that although Obama had authored two autobiographies, the Chosen One had never written about his “most important executive experience” —serving as Chairman of the Board for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Why omit this shining example of the Great Community Organizer’s leadership of an institution that pumped more than $100 million into his community? Well, perhaps it’s related to his close association at CAC with Bill Ayers, the unrepentant domestic terrorist and former Weather Underground member.
We have previously exposed Ayers’s extensive history with this 60s-era radical leftist faction, a group that advocated and executed actions aimed at violently overthrowing the U.S. government. Ayers only narrowly dodged prosecution for his role in Weather Underground on a serendipitous legal technicality. Years later, in the mid-90s, Ayers would help establish CAC, whose ostensible goal was to improve Chicago schools. In reality, Kurtz notes, “CAC’s agenda flowed from [Ayers’s] educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism.”
During the Democrat primary debates earlier this year in Philadelphia, Obama disavowed ties to Ayers, claiming, “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood... He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from [sic] on a regular basis.” However, Kurtz points out that CAC archives clearly show that Ayers and Obama were partners: “As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle.” Sen. Obama is apparently eager to keep this particular skeleton from seeing the light of day, as evidenced by his attempts to characterize good-faith inquiries into ties with Ayers as “guilt-by-association” attacks. Still, as Kurtz stresses, this isn’t about guilt by association: It’s about guilt by participation—in this case, with the free radical Bill Ayers.
CULTURE
Around the nation: New York gun suit
In 2006, the city of New York sued 27 small gun retailers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Georgia and South Carolina, claiming that their illegal gun sales and lax screening practices created a public nuisance in the city. Recently, the last of the 27 defendants reached an out-of-court settlement with the city. In the settlement, the holdout agreed to tougher rules for selling guns based on the stricter standards Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest gun seller, adopted earlier this year in a voluntary agreement with a group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
What impact might the Wal-Mart code have on the potential liability of gun retailers in general? A case taught in torts class in every law school may shed some light on the subject. In 1932, what is known as “The T.J. Hooper case” involved the loss of tugs and barges at sea because the tugs where not outfitted with radio receivers which would have enabled them to receive a weather-warning broadcast by the weather service. Had they received the warning they would have sought shelter. In 1932, radio receivers were new and most tugs did not have them. The decision rendered by the great jurist Learned Hand held that the lack of radio receivers was the direct cause of the loss of the tugs and barges. The case has been interpreted as where the custom and usage of an entire industry is below the standard of reasonable care, it cannot be used as a defense. In other words, the Wal-Mart code may set the new standard for custom and usage for the retailing of firearms.