A Good Read...

There's the key... Republicans WORK, Democrats TAKE. ...Jim Thompson

Well, the Clinton Foundation is an on-going fraud so he can pardon her ass as much as he wants but that will only apply to stuff she did in the past. That bitch *must* go to jail for her crimes or the whole legal system becomes a laughing stock. Obama also has a date with the Slammer for that phoney birth certificate of his - "uttering a forgery" is the technical term for it I believe. And that asshole cant pardon himself!

Apparently he can pardon himself... at least I've heard legal people assert such an opinion.

You can killfile krw as well, and miss nothing cogent. ...Jim Thompson

The law is an ass. Dickens made the point over an century ago.

Julian Barnes doesn't like the way the Clinton Foundation works, and misses the point that the Clintons are lawyers and know how to stay inside the law.

They use the same tricks that ever other well-heeled member of the elite exploits, and if you could send them to jail for their crimes, you'd be sending most of the 1% to jail at the same time.

It might be a good idea, but the honest residue would be severely over-worked for a few years, cleaning up the consequent mess, and the elite would have to evolve a whole new set of mechanisms for getting stuff to happen quickly.

Obama's birth certificate doesn't seem to be a forgery. Lunatic conspiracy theory freaks like Julian Barnes beg to differ, but their "evidence" is seriously implausible.

For that you need real evidence, not immagined evidence.

That appears to be easier to find w.r.t. Trump.

It is a little delicious to think of him being forced to appear in court in connection with any of the *75* /active/ court cases involving allegations that might have been committed before presidential immunity kicked in.

Some of those active cases are presumably the kind of thing that is likely to happen to any large enterprise, but some definitely aren't.

It seems like a small, well-educated, affluent elite is all it takes to successfully run a country and an economy--if you measure success by how well that elite is doing for itself.

I agree that Jim and John don't know very much, but I can't see that they have made bad choices. A choice isn't bad as long as you believe it was good.

robert

"[G]ross inequality in primary and secondary education" only occurs in those areas of the United States that are controlled by Democrats. I invite you to come and test the students in my semi-rural area of Arizona... my neighborhood is roughly evenly split Caucasian/white and Hispanic (they're usually "white" also ;-), with around 15% black... and we have the highest percentage of charter schools in Arizona... high scorers on SAT exams.

And crime? What's that? ...Jim Thompson

You can make bad choices about climate change for quite a while before it gets blindingly obvious that they were bad.

Sea level rise seems to be what it is going to take to get John Larkin's attention, if he lives long enough to see it. Jim Thompson is insulated from that.

Democrats tend to get political control in less well-off areas which don't have as much money to spend on educating the kids that live in the area.

Charter schools aren't always better than regular schools. Parental enthusiasm (and donations) do help, but not all parents are enthusiastic about good education (as opposed to brain-washing into right-thinking).

"Arizona charter school students had a 29-day disadvantage in math compared to public school students"