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LAST night after her uncontested "victory" in Florida, Hillary Clinton was introduced by... Alcee Hastings, removed from by the Senate in 1998 after impeachment from* in the House, under a heavy cloud of suspicion of bribery when he was a federal judge. (A bit of the colourful background here.) Bill Clinton pardoned Mr Hastings' alleged co-conspirator on his last day in office. Doesn't Ms Clinton have any slightly less dodgy-looking Floridian backers? Or if slightly suspect they must be, ones whose former associates had not been pardoned from federal prison by her husband? *[Correction: Mr Metcalph is correct. The text has been changed accordingly.] Permalink .
Moyer to lawyers: Fight foreclosure for free
Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, a Sandusky native, knows home foreclosures are a big problem back home in Erie County and across Ohio. Moyer is asking the courts and Ohio attorneys to reach out and help as many homeowners as they can. The chief justice has asked judges who handle foreclosure cases to use mediation to resolve as many cases as possible. And he's asked Ohio lawyers to volunteer in foreclosure cases to help families who can't otherwise afford a lawyer. A record number of foreclosure cases in 2007 have helped contribute to the growing workload in the Erie County courts, said the clerk of courts, Barbara Johnson. .
Kevin Posival: Super Bowl caps season of letdowns
We've seen the Patriots win Super Bowls and we've seen Tom Brady win Super Bowl MVP's. We've never seen a 19-0 team and we never imagined Eli Manning in the Super Bowl, much less winning one.
In the end, I'll be disappointed that the Patriots didn't make history or that the Giants didn't prove to be giant-killers. It is a season of disappointment, after all.
We've seen baseball's 'holy grail' branded with an asterisk. We've seen Marion Jones' five Olympic medals and Floyd Landis' Tour de France yellow jersey stripped far quicker than they were 'earned.' A Washington senator questions Roger Clemens' seven Cy Young Awards and Michael Vick shows up three weeks early for a 23-month sentence hoping to get leniency for his association with a dogfighting ring.
As sports fans, we need a 19-0 NFL season like a leg-less man needs a pair of Vince Young's new Reebok football cleats and we need the giant underdogs to win like another David Carr-like franchise quarterback.
Why Salmond laughed all the way to the Budget
If you want your heart's desire, if you want me out, take it to the electorate. How best to put this? Here's how: confronted with that choice, Labour ran away. It did not have the stomach, the confidence, the organisation or (a lovely irony) the cash to take on the Nationalists. In that, not in £950 cheques or strange abstentions, lies the lasting damage to Ms Alexander. How do you tell voters that Mr Salmond is doing untold damage to Scotland yet refuse the invitation to attempt to remove him? Even if Labour and the Liberals had failed to muster all the votes required to defeat the Budget, cause the First Minister to resign and force an election, it might, surely, have seized a half-chance. Not a bit of it. The last thing it wanted was another trip to the polls.
Why so many panhandling cases get dismissed
And if the police officer does not generate a report, the ticket is dismissed," said Jack Hart, a police officer and attorney in the Police Department's legal division. "What it is actually doing is enabling this behavior to continue. They give the ticket to the Homeless Coalition and don't even have to show up. It is completely consequence-free." Henderson, a 13-year veteran of the DA's office, announced in October that he was going to fight the wholesale dismissals. "At some point, there is going to be a public backlash," Henderson said. "People are not going to stand for this. You're not entitled not to face accountability just because you're homeless." That, of course, is the real issue. The Coalition on Homelessness insists it is only defending people who are down on their luck and need to panhandle to get by.
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