Misguided Academic Priorities

There is no end to the hypocrisy of academic elites. They pay $200,000 for hate speech toward an African library employee. Why is it that immigrants first learn the discrimination laws? People with disabilities are exploited by medical professionals and human services corporations, demonized by journalists and abused by police and the courts. Yet there is silence about this group of American citizens with a 70 percent unemployment rate. Who sets the national priorities?

[From article]
"NYU shelled out $210,000 to settle an ex-library worker's claims his boss repeatedly called him a monkey and a gorilla and taunted him with other racist slurs, federal authorities said yesterday."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/nyu_ettles_race_taunt_claims_AE8vkLB5B6IDOdZh2RheBL

NYU $ettles race-taunt claims
BY DAVID K. LI
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:55 AM, August 17, 2011
Posted: 2:24 AM, August 17, 2011

Union Violence Ignored by Propaganda Journalists

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/08/does-anyone-care-about-actual-political-violence.php

August 17, 2011
by John Hinderaker
Media Bias
Does Anyone Care About Actual Political Violence?
PowerLine Blog

Liberals Use Obama To Make Themselves Feel Good

[From article]
"Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin -- that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obama_the_affirmative_action_president.html

August 18, 2011
Obama: The Affirmative Action President
By Matt Patterson
American Thinker

Common Sense and Integrity Trump Credentials

This lover of career politicians makes the case for Palin by his illogical arguments and misguided values. He says, "Had John McCain won in 2008, we would have put an incompetent, deceitful, and vengeful person second in line to the presidency." But McCain lost and we "put an incompetent, deceitful, and vengeful person" in the presidency. This pundit belongs to the Obama club of "credential worshippers." Credentials do not bring with them integrity or common sense. Obama and his tax cheaters have intelligence and Ivy League degrees. They lack integrity and common sense. Palin has both. That is what makes her attractive to voters and taxpayers.

[From article]
"Had John McCain won in 2008, we would have put an incompetent, deceitful, and vengeful person second in line to the presidency.
[. . .]
But it remains true even now that Republicans do not take intelligence or expertise very seriously as qualifications for the presidency."

http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/218384/lessons-learned-from-the-palin-debacle

David Frum
Lessons learned from the Palin debacle
How to avoid another disastrous Republican national nomination
August 17, 2011, at 6:07 PM

Holder Refuses to Prosecute Attacks on Civil Rights Activist

http://biggovernment.com/tfitton/2011/08/17/doj-will-not-investigate-attack-of-civil-rights-activist/

[Warning, link to offensive video included]
DOJ Will Not Investigate Attack of Civil Rights Activist
by Tom Fitton
BigGovernment.com
August 18, 2011

Media Ignores Union Thug Shooting Non Union Employer

[From article]
"With around 25 employees, John King owns one of the largest non-union electrical contracting businesses in the Toledo, Ohio area. As a non-union contractor, his business happens to be doing well at a time when unions in the construction industry are suffering. This, it seems, has made the usual animosity unions have for him even greater, making him a prime target of union thugs. So much so, that one of them tried to kill him last week at his home."

http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/08/17/media-ignores-business-owner-shot-for-being-non-union/

Media Ignores Business Owner Shot for Being Non-Union
Posted by Dana Loesch
Aug 17th 2011 at 8:52 am

Double Jeopardy Film

Exciting film with a couple of unbelievable scenes.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150377/

Recognizing Black Racism

[Part One of Two]

[From article]
"Just to identify the rioters and looters as black is a radical departure, when mayors, police chiefs and the media in other cities report on these outbreaks of violence without mentioning the race of those who are doing these things. The Chicago Tribune even made excuses for failing to mention race when reporting on violent attacks by blacks on whites in Chicago.
[. . .]
All around the country, people in politics and the media have been tip-toeing around the fact that violent attacks by blacks on whites in public places are racially motivated, even when the attackers themselves use anti-white invective and mock the victims they leave lying on the streets bleeding."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/08/16/social_degeneration

Thomas Sowell
Social Degeneration
TownHall.com
August 16, 2011

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[Part Two of Two]

[From article]
"Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they resolutely ignore even the most blatant racism by blacks against others.
That includes a pattern of violent attacks on whites in public places in Chicago, Denver, New York, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Kansas City, as well as blacks in schools beating up Asian classmates -- for years -- in New York and Philadelphia.
[. . .]
As in the United States, they feel a fierce sense of resentment against strangers who have done nothing to them, and lash out violently against those strangers.
[. . .]
The need to bring people down in humiliation that marked the mass violence against the Armenians in Turkey nearly a century ago, and that later marked the Nazi persecutions of the Jews in Germany, is still alive and well in people who resent those who have achieved more than they have.



http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/08/17/social_degeneration_part_2/page/full/

Thomas Sowell
Social Degeneration Part 2
TownHall.com
August 17, 2011

PayPal Founder Invests in Artificial Countries

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands

By Liz Goodwin
National Affairs Reporter
The Lookout
August 16, 2011

Six-Year-Old Girl Kidnapped, Freed

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110817/ap_on_re_us/us_thwarted_abduction

Police: NM kidnapper thwarted by alert neighbor
By JERI CLAUSING,
Associated Press
August 16, 2011

Cambridge Lost Its Juice With the Courts

[Actual court decision copied below citations of news articles.]




Cambridge City hall

[From article]
"In May 2008, a jury decided that the city of Cambridge had retaliated against employee Monteiro’s complaint of discrimination when the city ending her employment as Executive Secretary of the Police Review and Advisory Board.

The jury awarded Monteiro close to $4.5 million -- $3.5 million in punitive damages, $962,400 in back pay and damages and $100,000 for emotional distress. Monteiro’s award accumulates 12 percent interest – or approximately $55,000 a month."

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1837741053/Appeals-court-says-Cambridge-must-pay-up-in-wrongful-termination-case#axzz1V8XKDMlI

By Staff reports
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Aug 15, 2011 @ 05:35 PM
Last update Aug 15, 2011 @ 06:17 PM

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/08/16/court_upholds_race_bias_verdict/?p1=Local_Links

Court upholds race bias verdict
Head of board had sued Cambridge
By Meghan E. Irons
Boston Globe Staff
August 16, 2011

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Monteiro decision: The following is taken verbatim from the Appeals Court posting.

This is a “rule 1:28" posting. I understand from the Cambridge Day report that this method of posting was used because the Appeals Court panel did not find the case worthy of a formal opinion. It was that one sided.

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NOTICE: Decisions issued by the Appeals Court pursuant to its rule 1:28 are primarily addressed to the parties and, therefore, may not fully address the facts of the case or the panel's decisional rationale. Moreover, rule 1:28 decisions are not circulated to the entire court and, therefore, represent only the views of the panel that decided the case. A summary decision pursuant to rule 1:28, issued after February 25, 2008, may be cited for its persuasive value but, because of the limitations noted above, not as binding precedent.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS APPEALS COURT


1. MALVINA MONTEIRO vs. CITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
10-P-1240
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER PURSUANT TO RULE 1:28

The plaintiff, Malvina Monteiro, brought a G. L. c. 151B action in Superior Court against her employer, the city of Cambridge (city), alleging discrimination based on race and national origin, as well as retaliation. A jury found in her favor on her retaliation claim and awarded over $4.5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. In addition, she was awarded pre- and postjudgment interest, attorney's fees, and costs, for a total award of roughly $6.7 million. The city appeals, arguing (1) the Superior Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction, (2) erroneous jury instructions, (3) erroneous admission of comparator evidence, (4) improper closing argument, (5) a variety of errors related to the jury's damages awards, and (6) erroneous computation of postjudgment interest. We affirm.

We forego a complete recitation of the facts as they developed over the course of more than ten years of litigation, including two jury trials. We recite the facts as necessary to explain our decision.

1. Jurisdiction. The city, citing, inter alia, Everett v. 357 Corp., 453 Mass. 585 (2009), claims that the Superior Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction of Monteiro's retaliatory termination claim because the claim did not 'relate back' to Monteiro's original complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) and Monteiro never filed a separate MCAD retaliation complaint. We disagree.

The Superior Court has no jurisdiction to entertain G. L. c. 151B claims without a predicate MCAD complaint. Id. at 600. A retaliation claim does not require an additional MCAD complaint when it is ''reasonably related to and grows out of' [the] discrimination [originally] complained of to [the] agency.' Id. at 603, quoting from Clockedile v. New Hampshire Dept. of Corrections, 245 F.3d 1, 5-6 (1st Cir. 2001).

Monteiro filed an MCAD complaint in September, 1998, alleging, inter alia, retaliation for raising concerns about discrimination. When Monteiro filed her original complaint in Superior Court in 2000, she alleged ongoing retaliation against her because she engaged in activities protected by G. L. c. 151B, § 4, the statute which classifies, inter alia, the filing of an MCAD complaint as a protected activity. 'In these circumstances, she was not required to return to the MCAD to file a second complaint.' Ayash v. Dana-Farber Cancer Inst., 443 Mass. 367, 388 n.19 (2005). Accordingly, the 2004 amended Superior Court complaint alleged only that the ongoing retaliation alleged in the original complaint also included her 2003 termination. [FN1] Because Monteiro alleged retaliatory termination reasonably related to and growing out of her original MCAD complaint and allegations of ongoing retaliation, she alleged no new retaliation claim requiring that she return to the MCAD. [FN2] The Superior Court had jurisdiction over Monteiro's retaliatory termination claim. [FN3]

2. Jury instructions. The city makes two interrelated arguments about the judge's instructions on the definition of 'adverse employment action': (1) the judge erroneously and prejudicially instructed along the lines of Burlington N. & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. White, 548 U.S. 53 (2006), instead of MacCormack v. Boston Edison Co., 423 Mass. 652 (1996); and (2) the judge's application of the more lenient Burlington standard erroneously permitted the jury to infer a causal link between Monteiro's 1998 MCAD complaint and her termination in 2003 based on insufficiently serious ongoing retaliation between 1998 and 2003. We are not persuaded.

First, assuming without deciding that the judge erroneously instructed, there was no prejudice. The city concedes, as it must, that Monteiro's termination constituted an 'adverse employment action' under the stricter MacCormack standard. And, in any event, irrespective of whether the Burlington standard or the MacCormack standard was applied, the jury did not award any damages based on the intervening retaliatory actions. The judge's instructions therefore caused the city no prejudice and present no basis for disturbing the judgment. See Dahms v. Cognex Corp., 455 Mass. 190, 207 (2009).

Second, the city essentially claims that, in order to demonstrate the requisite causal link between a termination long postdating protected activity and the protected activity based on an intervening 'series of retaliatory measures,' Mole v. University of Mass., 442 Mass. 582, 596 (2004), each such retaliatory measure must itself constitute an individually actionable 'adverse employment action.' The city has cited no authority imposing such a restriction, and we decline to create a new rule of law imposing one here. [FN4] Moreover, the city neither requested the judge to instruct that only a series of independently actionable adverse employment actions could constitute a 'series of retaliatory measures' nor objected to the instruction as given. The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to Monteiro, enabled a reasonable juror to conclude, based on a series of intervening retaliatory measures not necessarily individually actionable, that a causal relationship existed between Monteiro's MCAD complaint and her termination. There was no error.

3. Comparator evidence. The city, citing Matthews v. Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., 426 Mass. 122 (1997), argues that the judge abused her discretion in admitting circumstantial evidence of the city's treatment of similarly situated individuals. The city also asserts that it was clear error for the judge to deny its motion for a mistrial based on the admission of this evidence. There was no error. [FN5]

'[T]he great deference appellate courts accord the rulings of trial judges in [the admission of evidence is] too well established to require citation.' Beaupre v. Cliff Smith & Assocs., 50 Mass. App. Ct. 480, 485 (2000). The judge, acting well within her discretion, could conclude that Monteiro's comparator evidence was 'roughly equivalent' and presented, if not '[e]xact correla[ries],' 'fair congeners.' [FN6] See Trustees of Health & Hosps. of Boston, Inc. v. Massachusetts Commn. Against Discrimination, 449 Mass. 675, 682 (2007), quoting from Dartmouth Review v. Dartmouth College, 889 F.2d 13, 19 (1st Cir. 1989). The decision to admit the complained-of testimony was not an abuse of discretion. [FN7] Because the decision to admit this evidence was not an abuse of discretion, it follows that the judge did not commit clear error in denying the city's motion for a mistrial.

4. Closing argument. The city argues that the judge abused her discretion in denying its motion for a new trial based, inter alia, on Monteiro's counsel's closing argument. We agree with the judge that the references to the existence of the term 'flex-time' prior to March, 1998, and to a flex-time committee were based on fair inferences from the city manager's testimony and exhibits introduced during his testimony. Notwithstanding the propriety of this comment, the city objected during the closing argument. The judge immediately responded to the objection with a thorough, appropriate curative instruction. Accordingly, the argument that this comment unfairly prejudiced the city is wholly without merit. The judge did not abuse her discretion in denying the city's motion for a new trial on this basis. [FN8]

5. Damages. a. Compensatory damages. 'An excessive award of damages is grounds for a new trial. . . . The allowance of a new trial is within the judge's discretion, and an appellate court will not find an abuse of discretion . . . unless the damages awarded were greatly disproportionate to the injury proved or represent a miscarriage of justice.' Commonwealth v. Johnson Insulation, 425 Mass. 650, 667-668 (1997). On this record, we cannot conclude that the damages awarded were so disproportionate to the injury caused as to make denial of the city's new trial motion an abuse of the judge's discretion, let alone a miscarriage of justice. There was no error.

b. Punitive damages. The city argues that (1) the judge erroneously permitted the jury to consider awarding punitive damages, and (2) the judge abused her discretion in denying the city's motion for new trial or remittitur on the basis of improper and excessive punitive damages. We are not persuaded.

'Under the existing standard, '[p]unitive damages may be awarded for conduct that is outrageous, because of the defendant's evil motive or his reckless indifference to the rights of others." Haddad v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (No. 1), 455 Mass. 91, 107 (2009), quoting from Dartt v. Browning-Ferris Indus., Inc. (Mass.), 427 Mass. 1, 17a (1998). 'An award of punitive damages requires a determination of the defendant's intent or state of mind, determinations properly left to the jury, whose verdict should be sustained if it could ' reasonably have [been] arrived at . . . from any . . . evidence . . . presented." Ibid., quoting from Dartt, supra at 16.

We agree with the judge that Monteiro presented ample evidence from which a reasonable juror could find outrageous conduct. [FN9] She therefore appropriately allowed the question to go to the jury. [FN10] Because the jury's award could reasonably have been arrived at from the evidence presented, the judge appropriately denied the city's new trial motion and affirmed the damages award. There was no error. [FN11]

6. Postjudgment interest. The city argues that the judge erroneously permitted postjudgment interest to run beginning June 12, 2008, when Monteiro requested separate and final judgment pursuant to Mass.R.Civ.P. 54(b), 365 Mass. 820 (1974). The city argues that postjudgment interest should run starting June 2, 2009. We agree with the judge.
The June 4, 2010, corrected amended final judgment on jury verdict, which, pursuant to G. L. c. 235, § 4, properly entered separate and final judgment nunc pro tunc to June 12, 2008, forecloses the city's argument. The city has not challenged the propriety of the entry of separate and final judgment nunc pro tunc to June 12, 2008, and we discern no abuse of the judge's discretion in entering that nunc pro tunc judgment. [FN12] See Santos v. Chrysler Corp., 430 Mass. 198, 216-217 (1999). The city's chosen date for the commencement of postjudgment interest therefore lacks legal and factual bases. [FN13] There was no error.

7. Conclusion. We have no occasion to disturb the judgment. Monteiro has requested, and is entitled to appellate attorney's fees and costs. She may submit a petition for fees and costs, together with supporting materials, within fourteen days of the date of the rescript of this decision. The city shall have fourteen days thereafter to respond. See Fabre v. Walton, 441 Mass. 9, 10-11 (2004).

Corrected amended final judgment entered June 4, 2010, affirmed.

By the Court (Mills, Sikora & Rubin, JJ.),

Entered: August 15, 2011.
FN1. Everett is readily distinguishable because the plaintiff there made no retaliation claim. Everett, 453 Mass. at 605 n.28.



FN2. The city argues that decisions on various pretrial motions, which decisions did not reference Monteiro's retaliation claim, prove that it was inoperative prior to the 2004 amendment. Allegations and claims in a complaint remain operative, even after amendment, until waived or abandoned. See National Constr. Co. v. National Grange Mut. Ins. Co., 10 Mass. App. Ct. 38, 40 (1980), and cases cited. Because the city does not argue that Monteiro waived or abandoned this claim, and because the record contains no evidence that she did so, we are not persuaded.


In addition, the judge's decision awarding prejudgment interest from January 5, 2005 (the date of the amended complaint), rather than from September, 2000 (the date of the original complaint filed in Superior Court), as requested in Monteiro's posttrial motion, is not to the contrary. In its answers to special verdict questions, the jury determined that the city retaliated against Monteiro both by terminating her employment and through other adverse employment actions, but that she suffered financial damages only as a result of the termination decision. Compare DeRoche v. Massachusetts Commn.


Against Discrimination, 447 Mass. 1, 16 (2006) (in MCAD action, where damages awarded on retaliation claim only, prejudgment interest appropriately awarded from date retaliation commenced, rather than from earlier date when complaint was first filed with MCAD).



FN3. To the extent the city argues that the judge should not have allowed Monteiro's 2004 motion to amend her complaint, as suggested at various points in the city's brief and reply brief, we discern no abuse of the judge's discretion to permit the amendment. See Murphy v. I.S.K.Con. of New England, Inc., 409 Mass. 842, 864 (1991).



FN4. We note that, in the context of sexual harassment claims under G. L. c. 151B, the Supreme Judicial Court has expressly rejected such a restriction. See Cuddyer v. Stop & Shop Supermkt. Co., 434 Mass. 521, 532-533 (2001) ( 'Incidents of sexual harassment serious enough to create a work environment permeated by abuse typically accumulate over time, and many incidents in isolation may not be serious enough for complaint').



FN5. Because there was no error, we do not address the city's argument that, in the absence of this evidence, the jury could not infer retaliatory animus in the city's 2003 decision to terminate Monteiro. Even were there error, this claim would fail because we have already concluded that the jury could have inferred retaliatory animus based on the series of retaliatory measures which took place between Monteiro's 1998 MCAD complaint and 2003 termination.



FN6. We note that the city has not pointed to any discrimination or retaliation case in which an appellate court


reversed a judge's decision to admit comparator evidence at trial because the comparators lacked sufficient similarity.



FN7. Moreover, the judge's instructions, drawn nearly verbatim from Matthews, mitigated any claimed prejudice occasioned by the admission of this testimony.



FN8. We have reviewed the balance of the closing argument and conclude that it presents no basis for questioning the judge's exercise of her discretion to deny the new trial motion.


Specifically, to the extent the city argues that it was entitled to a new trial based on the judge's stray comment that one of Monteiro's attorneys had been her ethics student, we are not persuaded. To the extent the city argues that it was also entitled to a new trial based on Monteiro's counsel's statement that Monteiro 'lost' her pension, we read the statement in context as referring to Monteiro not accruing pension benefits in her current employment and losing the opportunity to reach twenty years of payment into the city's pension system. These assertions have ample record support.



FN9. The city argues that we should use the Haddad court's reformulation of this standard. See 455 Mass. at 110-111. Because our result would be the same under both standards, we need not address the issue.



FN10. As the judge aptly noted in her thoughtful consolidated memorandum on several of the city's posttrial motions, the ambiguous result of the first jury trial presents no basis for questioning the basis of the subsequent jury verdict.



FN11. To the extent the city argues that the judge should have allowed the motion for new trial in order to instruct a different jury on the new standard enunciated in Haddad because, by reason of Monteiro's pending motion pursuant to Mass.R.Civ.P. 59, 365 Mass. 827 (1974), this case had not 'gone to judgment,' 455 Mass. at 110, by the date of the Haddad decision, we are not persuaded. The instructions here substantially conformed to those which the Haddad court determined were without error. See id. at 109-110. Moreover, the city claims no error in the instructions.



FN12. To the extent the city argues that the judge improperly entered separate and final judgment without making the requisite findings, as suggested by footnotes 51 and 53 of its brief, we do not address the argument. 'Arguments relegated to a footnote do not rise to the level of appellate argument.' Commonwealth v. Lydon, 413 Mass. 309, 317-318 (1992), citing Mass.R.A.P. 16(a)(4), as amended, 367 Mass. 921 (1975).



FN13. To the extent the city argues that the commencement of postjudgment interest on June 12, 2008, is improper because of the delay incurred following Monteiro's rule 59 motion to clarify, alter, or amend the judgment, the city has cited no authority in support of its claim of error. Accordingly, we do not address it. See Mass.R.A.P. 16(a)(4), as amended, 367 Mass. 921 (1975). We note that the city had the opportunity to take steps to obviate the running of postjudgment interest during the pendency of posttrial motions, such as payment into an escrow account or other alternative arrangements. The city thus acted at its own peril by neglecting to pursue alternatives.


END OF DOCUMENT

Man Kills 3-year-old Neighbor, Police Priorities

No one was watching this guy before or after he killed the 3-year-old girl. But Cambridge MA police, Somerville MA police and Harvard campus cops take turns with criminal FBI informants harassing me, ridiculing me, provoking me, and keeping me under 24/7 surveillance. Delightful FBI criminals have resumed selling copies of personal journals stolen from me in 1973. It is called police priorities, protecting the criminal police businesses.

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110816/ap_on_re_us/us_missing_missouri_girl

Records: Neighbor confessed to killing Mo. Girl
Associated Press
August 16, 2011

Eleventh Day - Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan

Barnes and Noble Review




Writing with access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews, and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan deliver the first panoramic, authoritative look back at 9/11.

For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date in the nation’s history. What exactly happened? Could it have been prevented? How and why did so much acrimony and bad information arise from the ashes of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a quiet field in Pennsylvania? And what remains unresolved? What is certain: Discord and dissent continue to this day.

Beginning with the first brutal actions of the hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 11, The Eleventh Day tracks the precise sequence of events and introduces the players: pilots, terrorists, the airliners’ passengers, and the innocents who died on the ground. Drawing on previously classified records and raw transcripts, Summers and Swan investigate the response of President Bush and the U.S. military that day, and the failure to intercept the hijacked airliners. They document the untruths told afterward by U.S. officials and, as a counterpoint, thoroughly consider the contentions of the “9/11 truth” movement. With meticulous research, they examine the personalities of the men behind the onslaught, analyze the motives that drove them, and expose the U.S. intelligence blunders that preceded the attacks. They note how afterward—without good evidence—the Bush administration persisted in trying to link 9/11 to Iraq. And they confront, finally, the question the 9/11 Commission’s report blurred: Were the terrorists backed by powerful figures in another foreign nation—one the U.S. had long viewed as a friend?

Riveting, revelatory, and unforgettable, thoroughly sourced and complete with extensive endnotes, The Eleventh Day is the essential one-volume work on a pivotal event in our history.

Apple Sued For Conspiracy To Rig Book Prices

[From article]
"Apple and six large book publishers have been sued in Manhattan federal court, charged with conspiring to fix the price of e-books.
The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, claims the price-fixing boosted the price of e-books, in certain instances, to $16.99 from $9.99 in less than a year."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/suit_apple_rigged_books_pdQQDiApklyHDDxZ35UChK

Suit: Apple rigged e-books
By PAUL THARP
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:30 AM, August 13, 2011
Posted: 11:08 PM, August 12, 2011

Corporate Fraud Liability May Be $billions

[From article]
"the shareholders have a smoking gun e-mail from an executive at one PE firm clearly outlining a deal in which one firm would not enter a bid in a particular takeover in return for the executive's firm's not entering a bid in a separate takeover.
[. . .]
The PE firms, if found guilty of colluding on the buyouts, could be on the hook for tens of billions of dollars in damages,"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/wheel_of_fortune_3QamNAp2pSuLXaMxS0d9tK

Billions are riding on judge's ruling in buyout rig case
By JOSH KOSMAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:59 AM, August 13, 2011
Posted: 11:29 PM, August 12, 2011

Super Finance Committee Not So Super

[From article]
"Everything that’s wrong with the so-called debt “super-committee” can be summed up in the person, partisan hackery and policy ignorance of Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray.
[. . .]
I wanted to know if she supported creative alternatives to the Social Security system like the opt-out plan adopted by the cities of Bellevue, Wash., and Galveston, Texas.
“FICA?” she repeated with a puzzled glance at her entourage of DC staffers. “You know, payroll taxes,” I added helpfully.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/democrats_absurd_deficit_buster_3EMss1ps2RchlyusGF60PM

Democrats' absurd 'deficit-buster' pick
Michelle Malkin
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:04 AM, August 13, 2011
Posted: 10:48 PM, August 12, 2011

Weak Leaders Historically Threat to Peace

[From article]
"The threats to Western freedom then were Soviet tanks and barbed wire. Today, it’s growing anarchy in the streets and economic meltdown, harbingers of a new Dark Age for Europe. America isn’t immune from the same thing.
We need a president who is ready and willing to confront those threats, whether here or over there, and to stand up for liberty and civilized values everywhere. Instead, we get empty words -- and a blank wall of indifference."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/when_america_blinked_ZZeaXP08St6m6kzutzqZgL

When America blinked
JFK’s Berlin Wall mistake
Arthur Herman
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:48 AM, August 13, 2011
Posted: 10:47 PM, August 12, 2011

Spinelessness Not Limited To USA

[From article]
"Charles Crawford, sometime NR cruiser and formerly Her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador in various parts of Mitteleuropa, thinks not:

The only worse thing than having a problem is not knowing you have a problem.
And even worse than not knowing you have a problem is knowing you have a problem, but being unwilling to accept responsibility for doing anything about it.
And that’s the problem of our political elites, from all parties."

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/274574/world-they-made-mark-steyn#

The World They Made
August 14, 2011 11:10 A.M.
By Mark Steyn
National Review

Seven-Year-Old with Cerebral Palsy Killed by Mother's Boyfriend

The New York Post reported two years ago, a finding in the United Kingdom, of a pattern of homicides and beatings of children by the boyfriends of unmarried women.

http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20110814/HURBLOG/110819724?p=1&tc=pg

[Video embedded]
Man charged with killing girlfriend's son
Eric Heisig
and Nate Monroe
Published: Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 2:41 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, August 15, 2011 at 12:16 a.m.
Houma Today (Thibodaux LA)

Two Sept 11th Hijackers Stayed In Cambridge MA

An issue seldom if ever discussed is the possibility that the CIA was infiltrated by spies. All it takes is one well-placed enemy to do extensive damage, e.g. keeping a fact from proper authorities.

[From article]
"He said that if he had known anything about Hazmi and Mihdhar even days before 9/11, he would have ordered an immediate manhunt to find them—and that it would have succeeded, possibly disrupting the 9/11 plot.

“We would have conducted a massive sweep,” he said. “We would have conducted it publicly. We would have found those assholes. There’s no doubt in my mind, even with only a week left. They were using credit cards in their own names. They were staying in the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square, for heaven’s sake.” He said that “those guys would have been arrested within 24 hours.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/11/september-11th-anniversary-richard-clarke-s-explosive-cia-cover-up-charge.html

An Explosive New 9/11 Charge
In a new documentary, former national-security aide Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers—then covered it up. Philip Shenon on George Tenet’s denial.
Aug 11, 2011 8:47 AM EDT
Philip Shenon
Daily Beast