Friday, September 24, 2010

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Change we can see with our own eyes: UAW acting more like an agent for the working class rather than a labor agency these days! A welcome change it is too.

People may forgive, but they never forget: Ex-Weather Underground fugitive, retired UIC professor, and Obama political mentor Bill Ayers denied emeritus status by university board. Christopher Kennedy, who chairs the UIC board, objects that Ayers dedicated a book (published in 1974) to Sirhan Sirhan, the man who murdered his father in 1968.

A one-man population bomb: Howard Veal of Muskegon, MI who has fathered 23 children with 14 different women but has paid virtually no support for them was found guilty of felony non-payment and sentenced to 2 -4 years in prison. Veal, who is currently unemployed, owes over half a million in back child support.

Only in America: The story of a transgender, Republican, gun-rights advocate from Fresno, California from the bemused SF Weekly.