[Molly Pitcher]

Hey there!

Ladies you were fast to respond!

I did NOT know that the original lineup ONLY included LaCrosse players!!!!

Bit, thanks for the link to that Culture article the other day...from the Hoover Institution, I think...

[Peach]

Yes - Carolinamom is correct that the original lineup only included the Duke LaCrosse players, which sounds illegal to me.

And Nifong (fondly referred to as Liefong) had the lab withhold exculpatory evidence that none of the DNA taken from the false accuser came from any of those 40 Duke LaCrosse players! He had that evidence withheld from the Grand Jury. He's in a boatload of trouble and I've heard legal consultants say that what he's done is as unethical as anything they've ever heard a DA do.

[Bitwhacker]

Speaking of the Hoover Institute at Stanford, did you happen to catch the PBS special they did on Milton Friedman???

Did you know that Thomas Sowell, who Rush calls the 'smartest man in America', was actually a student of Milton Friedman's at Stanford??? It was soo funny listening to Sowell, who bows to nobody intellectually, describe how Friedman used to white comments in the margins of his papers, one time saying that of the two possibilities presented in the paper (either A or B), there was a third: that the analysis may be wrong! So Sowell confronted Friedman and demanded to know where the flaw was in the analysis -- and Friedman tells him, 'I wasn't saying that your analysis was flawed, only that you said there were only two possibilites, and I wanted you to be open to the possibility that you may be wrong.' You could tell that Sowell was still in awe...;-))

Also in that special: video of J.K. Galbraith and his bloviating about wage and price controls being a 'necessity' -- and you could see instantly how the 70's got so screwed up...