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Michael Isikoff / NBCNews.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans — Tribesmen examine the rubble of a building in southeastern Yemen where American teenagerAbdulrahmen al-Awlaki and six suspected al-Qaida militants were killed in a U.S. drone strike on Oct. 14, 2011.
Discussion: Politico, American Prospect, New York Magazine, Doug Ross, Guardian, Crooks and Liars, The Jawa Report, Hit & Run, Mother Jones, No More Mister Nice Blog, Pat Dollard, The Daily Caller, Wired, Patterico's Pontifications, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Moonbattery, Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, The Hill, The Plum Line, msnbc.com, First Read, emptywheel, Taylor Marsh, Booman Tribune, This ain't Hell …, Pirate's Cove, TalkLeft, NewsBusters, The Stranger …, The Right Scoop, Let's Try Democracy, The Lonely Conservative, ProfessorBainbridge.com, NationalJournal.com, The Raw Story, Suburban Guerrilla and Philly.com
Dylan Byers / Politico: Conservative media's big Obama failure
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine: Leaked Memo Shows Rules for Killing Americans With Drones Are Pretty Vague
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian: Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens
Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. / The Jawa Report: Damn Right We Have the Right to Kill Americans ... IN AL QAEDA
Ed Krayewski / Hit & Run: Senators Want Legal Opinions on Targeting U.S. Citizens in Drone War, DOJ White Paper Not Enough
Littlebytes / Pat Dollard: DOJ Memo:"Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen"
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller: Keying off a Conor Friedersdorf column, Politico's Dylan Byers seems …
Spencer Ackerman / Wired: How Obama Transformed an Old Military Concept So He Can Drone Americans
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Obama admin: Drones can target Americans abroad based on one official's opinion
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: President Obama's Troubling Justification For Targeted Killings
Dave Blount / Moonbattery: Obama Approves Drone Strikes on American Citizens in USA Without Due Process
Meteor Blades / Daily Kos: Memo explains administration's legal rationale behind targeted killings. Senate critics not soothed
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: Scarborough Tears Into Drone Program: 'If George Bush Had Done This, It Would Have Been Stopped'
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: The Morning Plum: Immigration reform in jeopardy?
Taylor Marsh: Top Story — NBC Obtains Targeted Assassinations White Paper on Classified Memos that Remain Out of Reach
TSO / This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here: DOJ lays out legal argument for Drone strikes on US Citizens
William Teach / Pirate's Cove: Leaked Memo Cites Legal Rationale For Targeted Assassination Of Americans Abroad
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters: Mika Admits: Under Bush, Drone Strike Memo Would Have Caused 'Huge Controversy'
Paul Constant / The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper: A Million Shades of Grey
The Right Scoop: Leaked Justice Dept. memo reveals govt. can carry out drone strikes on U.S. citizens connect to Al Qaeda
Davidswanson / Let's Try Democracy: Justice Department Leaks Memo "Legalizing" Murdering Americans (But Not Some Americans Already Murdered)
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com: Obama thinks he can send a drone to kill Americans if he believes they're senior al-Qaida
Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story: NBC reporter on leaked memo: Obama admin. using 'elastic' definitions to justify drones
New York Times:
Memo Cites Legal Basis for Killing U.S. Citizens in Al Qaeda — WASHINGTON — Obama administration lawyers have asserted that it would be lawful to kill a United States citizen if "an informed, high-level official" of the government decided that the target was a ranking figure in Al Qaeda who posed …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, alan.com and thomaspmbarnett.com
Nickarama / Weasel Zippers: U.S. Justice Department Memo Leaked On Justification For Killing American Citizens "Linked" With Al-Qaeda
Thomas P.M. Barnett / thomaspmbarnett.com: Time's Battleland: TERRORISM - Minority Report has finally arrived
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Obama's Memo on Killing Americans Twists 'Imminent Threat' Like Bush
Obama's Memo on Killing Americans Twists 'Imminent Threat' Like Bush
Scott Lemieux / American Prospect: License to Kill — In a major reportorial coup, NBC's Michael Isikoff …
Senator Wyden's Press Feed: Bipartisan Group of Senators Seeks Legal Justifications for the Deliberate Killing of Americans
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Scarborough: Drone strike memo "frightening"
Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run: 5 Disturbing Aspects of the DOJ White Paper on the President's License to Kill
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money: Imminent Threat — I have a piece up at the Prospect about the memo uncovered by Isikoff.
Thomas P.M. Barnett / thomaspmbarnett.com: The Minority Report has finally arrived
Marc Ambinder / The Week:
Your government can kill you if... A Justice Department …
Your government can kill you if... A Justice Department …
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Hullabaloo
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. document justifies killing Americans overseas if they pose 'imminent threat'
Justice Dept. document justifies killing Americans overseas if they pose 'imminent threat'
Josh Gerstein / Politico: Official memo justifying drone strikes leaks
Marc Thiessen / AEIdeas: Obama, drones, and the 'imperial presidency'
This Isn't the Memo You're Looking For
This Isn't the Memo You're Looking For
Discussion: ACLU, Secrecy News, Firedoglake, Gawker and The Daily Caller
Jameel Jaffer / ACLU: The Justice Department's White Paper on Targeted Killing
Steven Aftergood / Secrecy News: Keeping Secrets from Congress
DSWright / Firedoglake: White Paper Asserts Obama Administration May Kill Americans Without Due Process
Taylor Berman / Gawker: Confidential Justice Department Memo: Targeted Killing of Americans Does Not Require 'Clear Evidence' of Imminent Attack
Ken Dilanian / Los Angeles Times:
CIA nominee John Brennan to face tough questions in Senate
CIA nominee John Brennan to face tough questions in Senate
Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Verge and Gothamist
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Brennan's Reading List
Joshua Kopstein / The Verge: Obama's new Department of Defense: fewer troops, more drones
Christopher Robbins / Gothamist: Piece Of Paper Says Obama Can Kill Americans, No Biggie
Cantor 4.0 seeks to rebrand House GOP — House Republicans haven't settled on an agenda yet, but Majority Leader Eric Cantor is ready to rebrand the party. — The Virginia Republican is a metaphor for a GOP conference that is trying to modernize on the fly after a disappointing 2012 election …
Discussion: NBCNews.com, The Maddow Blog, Mother Jones, msnbc.com and Daily Kos
First Read / NBCNews.com: Obama floods the zone
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: Eric Cantor, plus ca change
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones: Yet More Non-Change on Tap From Republicans
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Republicans Are Upset That Obama Is Giving Remarks At The Same Time As Eric Cantor's Speech
Republicans Are Upset That Obama Is Giving Remarks At The Same Time As Eric Cantor's Speech
Discussion: alan.com, New York Times and Daily Kos
Michael D. Shear / New York Times: Obama Will Ask Congress for Budget Cuts to Head Off Automatic Reductions
Cantor says background checks a possibility
Cantor says background checks a possibility
Discussion: Politico and The Plum Line
Jake Sherman / Politico: Frank Luntz to help House GOP craft message
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: GOP's "makeover" is purely cosmetic
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Democrats Slam Republicans Over Opposition To The Violence Against Women Act
Democrats Slam Republicans Over Opposition To The Violence Against Women Act
Discussion: Daily Kos
Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
Michelle Obama's posterior again the subject of a public rant — They're at it again. — The latest public rant against Michelle Obama's effort to promote low-calorie school lunches was recently caught on tape in Alabama — the usual protest against the federal government meddling in local business.
Discussion: NewsBusters, Weasel Zippers, CNN, Wonkette, Althouse, Taylor Marsh, The Hinterland Gazette and Jammie Wearing Fools
Tim Graham / NewsBusters: 'Fat Butt' Frenzy: WashPost Indicts Football Coach, Rush Limbaugh for Racist Insults of Mrs. Obama, Black Womanhood
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: WaPo Accuses Rush Limbaugh Of Racist Insults For Commenting On Size Of Mooch's Butt …
Aaron Carroll / CNN: What you thought you knew about obesity is wrong
Jesse Taylor / Wonkette: Racist, Sexist People Think Michelle Obama Is Fat Because Of Racism, Sexism
Janet Shan / The Hinterland Gazette: AL High School Coach Bob Grisham Suspended for Saying Michelle Obama has …
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Port Deal Pushed by Menendez Could Benefit Former Aide, Not Just a Major Donor — SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — It turns out that the lucrative port security contract pushed by Senator Robert Menendez would enrich more than just a major benefactor. — The contract could also benefit …
Discussion: The Fix, National Legal … and Naked Politics
Chris Cillizza / The Fix: What we know (and what we don't) about Bob Menendez, Salomon Melgen and the Dominican Republic
Ken Boehm / National Legal and Policy Center: Sen. Menendez Claims He Didn't Know Ex-Aide Was Part of Port Deal
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics: Former Sen. Menendez aide might benefit from company of FBI-investigated donor
Robert Stacy McCain / American Spectator:
The Menendez Dilemma — Prostitution is both legal and widespread in the Dominican Republic, where as many as 100,000 women are part of the industry in a nation that has become a major sex-tourism hotspot of the Caribbean. So it would not be a crime for Sen. Robert Menendez to have availed himself …
Discussion: The Jawa Report, The Other McCain, BREITBART.COM, The Daily Caller, CNN and Fausta's Blog
Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. / The Jawa Report: Menendez: I'm not gay! Just Check Out How Hot The Hooker I Didn't Sleep With Is as Proof!
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: 100,000 Hookers vs. the Alleged Heterosexuality of Robert Menendez
David Martosko / The Daily Caller: PHOTOS: Meet one of Bob Menendez's (alleged) call girls [SLIDESHOW]
Ron Paul · 1,118,166 like this — As a veteran, I certainly recognize that this weekend's violence and killing of Chris Kyle were a tragic and sad event. My condolences and prayers go out to Mr. Kyle's family. Unconstitutional and unnecessary wars have endless unintended consequences.
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line: Ron Paul — opportunistic fool
Lyneka Little / Speakeasy: Ron Paul Criticized for Tweet About Sniper Chris Kyle's Death
Spit Stixx / Pat Dollard: Ron Paul Now Blames America And Chris Kyle For Not Following Jesus's Teachings For Kyle Being Murdered
Eliana Johnson / National Review: Ron Paul on Murder of Former Navy SEAL: 'He Who Lives by the Sword Dies by the Sword'
Janet Shan / The Hinterland Gazette: Ron Paul on Chris Kyle's Murder: "He Who Lives by the Sword, Dies by the Sword"
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Ron Paul Gloats Over War Hero Chris Kyle's Murder: "Seems To Confirm That He Who Lives …
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner: Ron Paul tries to explain controversial comments about slain sniper
Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: RAND PAUL RESPONDS TO RON: 'CHRIS KYLE WAS A HERO' — In the aftermath of Ron Paul's despicable tweet today slamming US Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, murdered on Saturday while helping a fellow soldier learn to cope with post traumatic stress syndrome, Paul's son, Senator Rand Paul …
Kevin Cirilli / Politico: Rand Paul: Slain sniper 'was a hero'
Vince Coglianese / The Daily Caller: After controversial Ron Paul tweet, son Rand issues statement of condolence for slain SEAL sniper
Weasel Zippers: Rand Paul Responds To Idiot Father's Slander Of Murdered SEAL: "Chris Kyle Was A Hero"...
Ryan W. McMaken / LewRockwell.com Blog: Rand Paul: Every Government Worker in Uniform is a Hero
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner: Rand Paul responds to father's comments about slain sniper
Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. / The Jawa Report: People Begging for a Good Ass Kicking!
Justin McCurry / Guardian:
North Korea video shows US city in flames after missile attack — YouTube video shows city ablaze in scenes reminiscent of 9/11, as South Korea claims nuclear test imminent in Pyongyang — It begins benignly enough, with an image of a sleeping young North Korean man …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Forbes, New York Times, The Lede, AEIdeas, Pat Dollard, Mediaite, FP Passport, The Daily Caller, WorldViews, Sister Toldjah, The PJ Tatler and Gawker
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin: Footage in N. Korea state-sponsored video depicting missile attack against U.S. looks familiar to gamers
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times: U.S. May Have Trouble Gauging North Korean Nuclear Test
The Lede: North Korean Propaganda Video Uses 'Call of Duty' and 'We Are the World' to Imagine a Brighter World, Without Manhattan
Marc Thiessen / AEIdeas: Inspired by 'Gangnam Style,' North Korea posts YouTube music video showing missile attack on US
Noah Rothman / Mediaite: North Korea Releases Video Featuring U.S. City In Flames Amid Missile Attack... Set To 'We Are The World'
Marya Hannun / FP Passport: North Korea releases nuclear destruction video set to 'We Are the World'
Olga Khazan / WorldViews: New North Korea video shows destruction of what appears to be New York City
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
The Disgusting Consequences of Plastic-Bag Bans — Conservatives often point out that laws, no matter how benign they may appear, have unintended consequences. They can reverberate in ways that not many people foresaw and nobody wanted: Raising the minimum wage can increase unemployment; prohibition can create black markets.
Discussion: Power Line and TheBlaze.com
Steven Hayward / Power Line: Put a Bag Over It — One of my axioms when I lived in Washington …
Meredith Jessup / TheBlaze.com: The unintended consequences of plastic bag bans are... well, gross
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Eight Senators Vote To Block Violence Against Women Act — Eight Senators on Monday voted not to consider the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, a bill that protects victims of domestic violence. The Senators who voted against moving to debate on the bill were: Sens. Ted Cruz …
Discussion: The Huffington Post, Addicting Info, The Hinterland Gazette, The Raw Story and Daily Kos
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post: Deb Fischer The Only Female Senator Not Cosponsoring VAWA (UPDATE)
T. Steelman / Addicting Info: The Eight GOP Senators Who Voted To Block The Violence Against Women Act
Janet Shan / The Hinterland Gazette: Marco Rubio Among Eight GOP Senators Voting to Block Violence Against Women Act.
Laura Clawson / Daily Kos: Senate votes to move forward on Violence Against Women Act
Christi Parsons / Los Angeles Times:
Jon Favreau, President Obama's head speechwriter, is departing — Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, who at times lit up social media as well as the president's addresses, is leaving. — President Obama and his head speechwriter, Jon Favreau, work in the Oval Office.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Post Politics
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Another Obama Speech Writer to Depart for Hollywood
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Static at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty — In the past few months Vladimir Putin has terminated the work in Russia of the U.S. Agency for International Development, ended American adoptions of Russian children and, most damagingly, drastically reduced the audience and credibility …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online, National Review and The Heritage Foundation
Robert Coalson / The Atlantic Online: For Russian Dissidents, It's White Ribbon Day in Moscow
John O'Sullivan / National Review: A Very Washington Scandal
Helle Dale / The Heritage Foundation: BBG Takes It on the Chin
Jason Koebler / US News:
Study: Global Warming Can Be Slowed By Working Less — A new analysis suggests that a more 'European' schedule would reduce the effects of climate change — Want to reduce the effects of global warming? Stop working so hard. Working fewer hours might help slow global warming …
Discussion: NewsBusters, americanthinker.com, Pirate's Cove, Weasel Zippers, Say Anything and TheBlaze.com
Tom Blumer / NewsBusters: US News Item on How Working Less Might Slow 'Climate Change' Ignores Underlying Radical 'De-Growth' Agenda
Rick Moran / americanthinker.com: Save the world: Don't work so hard
William Teach / Pirate's Cove: Warmist Paper Suggests People Should Work Less To Solve Hotcoldwetdry
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Liberal Think Tank's Solution To Global Warming: Americans Need To Stop Working So Hard, Adopt A …
Rob Port / Say Anything: Can Obamacare Help Fight Global Warming?
Meredith Jessup / TheBlaze.com: Finally, a global warming 'solution' I can get behind
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's ObamaCare Flippers — How the law's perverse incentives—and the health lobby—captured Arizona's Governor. — As D-Day looms for ObamaCare, one big question is how many states will sign up for its Medicaid expansion. The recent and spectacular flip-flop of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer …
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Hot Air, TheBlaze.com and The Huffington Post
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Invisible People — Conservatives are supposed to be pretty good at …
Erika Johnsen / Hot Air: Sebelius: ObamaCare is the law of the land, so you might as well help us implement it
Eddie Scarry / TheBlaze.com: Brewer under fire from Wall Street Journal
Dell in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private — Updated — Dell announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to go private in a $24.4 billion deal led by its founder and the investment firm Silver Lake, in the biggest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis. — Under the terms of the deal …
Discussion: The Week, Business Insider and The Daily Caller
Andrew Sachais / The Daily Caller: Dell goes private to the tune of $24 billion
Talking Points Memo:
Hillary Clinton Debuts New Website — Hillary Clinton appears to have a new website. So far, hillaryclintonoffice.com has a picture of the former secretary of state and a form for contacting her.
Discussion: The Hill, Politico, The PJ Tatler and The Hinterland Gazette
Justin Sink / The Hill: New Hillary website stokes presidential speculation
Kevin Robillard / Politico: Hillary Clinton's new website
Myra Adams / The PJ Tatler: Hillary Watch 2016 - We Read, We Report, So You Can Ignore: 'Hillary Clinton's New Website'
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
David Horowitz: How Republicans can win — I've known David Horowitz for more than 20 years, from the time he came through town with Peter Collier talking about their invaluable book Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties. As Jay Nordlinger has written …
Discussion: neo-neocon
Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
HHS begins purge of 'excessively burdensome' healthcare rules — The Obama administration is proposing to reform existing healthcare regulations and purge unnecessary ones, a move that it says would save $3.4 billion over five years. — The Department of Health and Human Services has rolled …
Discussion: National Review
Grace-Marie Turner / National Review: The New HHS Regulation Purge
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
House GOP thinks unthinkable on defense cuts — The Republican mantra for decades has been: cut NPR, EPA and the National Endowment for the Arts. — Now add the Pentagon to the list. — In the modern history of the Republican Party, it would have been unthinkable.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Michèle A. Flournoy / Wall Street Journal:
The Right Way to Cut Pentagon Spending — The U.S. has an abysmal record of postwar drawdowns that undermine military readiness and modernization. — Whether or not Congress avoids sequestration by March 1, defense spending will likely be cut by at least 10% over the next decade.
Discussion: Hot Air, The Week, Weekly Standard and msnbc.com
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Is it time to filibuster Hagel?
William Kristol / Weekly Standard: Why Not Flournoy? — The woman who still could be the next …
Rick Bosh / msnbc.com: What we're reading: Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
A revolution in the works? Column — But if there's an upside to the increasing unhappiness that most Americans feel toward the political class, it's that maybe it means people are paying closer attention. — Americans are out of sorts, and increasingly they're unhappy with the government.
Discussion: Babalú Blog, Hit & Run, This ain't Hell …, The Other McCain, Daily Pundit, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Ed Driscoll
Drillanwr / Babalú Blog: "Political Class, Take Note"
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run: The New American Majority: People Who Dislike/Distrust Goverment as Insurance Agent
Jonn Lilyea / This ain't Hell …: Surprise! Elections have consequences!
Smitty / The Other McCain: Third Option-Term Limits
Bill Quick / Daily Pundit: Hey, We Hate You So Much We're Giving You Another Two, Four, Six Years....
Nile Gardiner / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Joe Biden confuses Poland with Portugal in latest embarrassing gaffe for the vice president — Joe Biden is in Europe this week, meeting with leaders in Berlin, Paris and London. Tomorrow he drops by Downing Street to see David Cameron, and Nick Clegg is also on the agenda.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Biden Gaffes His Way Across Europe
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Biden Gaffe #42,098,834... Confuses Poland With Portugal During Speech In Europe...
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller: Joe Biden is travelling in Europe this week, and he's really excited …
Dewey From Detroit / Michelle Obama's Mirror: FOREWARD! All aboard Obama's high speed intercontinental train.
David Mitchell / KDVR.com:
7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real — LOVELAND, Colo. — A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing. — The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.
Discussion: TheBlaze.com and The Right Scoop


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Join a small group & genuine Kiwi guide on our hiking tours of North Island's largest National Park and Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk. Multi-day or short walks through magical "goblin" forest, spectacular views & remote wilderness areas.
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Choose from four days of guided short walks, boat cruises and other activities, or a four day hut-to-hut hiking expedition on the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk Track.
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DOVER — Former Dover School District food service director Mark Covell was sentenced Wednesday morning to two to 10 years in state prison for each charge of theft by unauthorized taking, two charges he pleaded guilty to and was ordered to pay restitution for.
DOVER — Former Dover School District food service director Mark Covell was sentenced Wednesday morning to two to 10 years in state prison for each charge of theft by unauthorized taking, two charges he pleaded guilty to and was ordered to pay restitution for.
The first charge relates to money stolen between Sept. 6, 2011 and Feb. 4, 2012 and the second charge to thefts between Jan. 4, 2012 to Feb. 24, 2012.
An investigation conducted by school officials, the Dover Police Department, as well as a forensic accounting evaluation completed by a certified public accountant hired by the city who evaluated records back to the 2010-2011 school year, revealed the amounts stolen by Covell were much higher than initially thought.
County Attorney Tom Velardi said $2,183 in students' lunch money was pilfered, and more than $30,000 was taken from vending machines.
It was originally believed there had been about $1,500 taken from lunch money funds and another $1,500 taken from vending machines.
"The aggravating factors are that he was in a position of public trust," Velardi told presiding Judge John Lewis. "And what's particularly aggravating is that he was literally stealing students' lunch money."
Paying the ordered restitution does not prohibit the School District, however, from pursuing further legal action. To that end, Superintendent Jean Briggs Badger said the administration continues to work with the city attorney and will explore every avenue.
Covell, 58, of last known address 111 Central St. Apt. 2, Peabody, Mass., was employed by the city for some 20 years in his role with responsibilities of account and record keeping for funds brought in through the school lunch program and through vending machine sales, monies Covell was specifically in charge of removing.
Covell was also in charge of the daily deposit sheets. Discrepancies in amounts on those sheets raised suspicion among coworkers in February 2012, who then brought the issue to light.
Business administrator Michael Limanni provided those sheets to the Dover Police Department, which launched an investigation.
During that time, Covell was cooperative, Velardi said, though he was confronted multiple times in order to gain truthful information. Covell minimized the extent of his stealing, telling detectives that amounts on record sheets were off due to a computer glitch. He finally admitted to stealing money stored in a desk drawer after collection when he was further questioned as to how a computer glitch could have caused such long-term discrepancies.
Police had also pre-loaded a vending machine with a specific amount of money and discovered Covell had been deflating the amount he admitted to taking in order to mitigate criminal conduct.
Following the hearing, Velardi told Foster's Daily Democrat the School District had numerous "fail safes" in place and that actions such as Covell's are impossible to really know as there's no way to prevent someone within that fail-safe system from abusing it.
To the School District's credit, he said, there were plenty of checks and balances in place that caught the issue and Briggs Badger said it was the proactive approach taken with those checks and balances in place that helped the fraud be discovered and stopped.
"There's not much else someone could have done," Velardi said.
The district is also insured against employee fraud through Primex and "have been covered since day one," Briggs Badger said.
Since Covell's departure, the food service program has been outsourced to a company called Cafe Services,
"It's turned out to be a positive change," Briggs Badger said.
During the hearing, Judge Lewis stated Dover police did an excellent job in their investigation, and Velardi echoed that sentiment saying their work was fantastic.
He said white collar crimes such as these are often difficult to investigate and prosecute but that everyone involved in solving this crime did a really great job.


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Coast Guard Featured in Pentagon Channel Documentary, Hollywood Film
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2006 - The U.S. Coast Guard will be featured in two major productions debuting this month: an original documentary episode of "Recon" airing on the Pentagon Channel entitled "Always Ready," and a Hollywood feature film entitled "The Guardian," starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutchner.
Despite participation in nearly every conflict, U.S. forces have been involved in, most Americans know very little about the Coast Guard's wartime contributions and way of life. As the smallest military service, the Coast Guard's many unique missions aren't always recognized by other servicemembers and civilians, officials said. However, this is about to change.
"The history of the Coast Guard is a story of continual adaptation since 1790," U.S. Coast Guard Commandant, Adm. Thad Allen said during an interview for the "Always Ready" show. "So while changing and adapting to port security in the post-9-11 world, we have actually done a lot over the history of the service," he said.
Taken from the U.S. Coast Guard's motto, "Semper Paradus," or "always ready," the documentary first aired on the Pentagon Channel Sept. 22. In addition to airing on cable and satellite, it is available through video-on-demand and podcast online at www.pentagonchannel.mil.
Recon is the Pentagon Channel's signature original, monthly, half-hour series that provides an in-depth look at a variety of topics and issues from real-world operations, missions, military events, and other subjects highlighting the accomplishments of U.S. military men and women.
Interest in producing a show about the Coast Guard stems from Air Force Master Sgt. Daniela Marchus' time spent with USCG Port Security Unit 308 in Gulfport, Miss., in the days following Hurricane Katrina. A producer for the series, Marchus was part of a five-member Pentagon Channel team sent to Mississippi and Louisiana to cover military participation in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
"They opened their doors to our team and let us move right in and set up shop for our coverage of military operations in the wake of Katrina," she said. "Many evening hours were spent winding down and swapping stories about where our service had taken us over the years," she said.
That's when she learned all of her perceptions of what the Coast Guard is and does were way off the mark. "That made me want to do a little something to help change similar perceptions others might have," Marchus said.
"Always Ready" features the Coast Guard's involvement in Operation Iraqi Freedom, introduces viewers to the service's enlisted boot camp and its officer academy and finally, tells the story of the service's heritage and where it is going in the future.
Marchus summed up her perception with, "The Coast Guard does so much, yet gets so little recognition for their efforts."
"Now, more people will have a chance to get two distinct looks into the unique service via Hollywood and Washington," she said.
The Hollywood film partly filmed at Barksdale Air Force Base, in Louisiana, hits screens nationwide Sept. 29.
The Pentagon Channel, the Department of Defense's cable television channel, broadcasts military news and information for and about the 2.6 million members of the U.S. armed forces -- active duty, National Guard and reserve -- to more than 12 million households through commercial distribution on satellite and cable systems nationwide. In addition, Pentagon Channel programming is available online through video-on-demand and podcasting at www.pentagonchannel.mil.
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STOCKTON - Twice in phone conversations, convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine has told Sacramento bounty hunter Leonard Padilla that he's ready to pinpoint the locations of 14 bodies buried on Cow Mountain in Lake County.
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STOCKTON - Twice in phone conversations, convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine has told Sacramento bounty hunter Leonard Padilla that he's ready to pinpoint the locations of 14 bodies buried on Cow Mountain in Lake County.
Gov. Jerry Brown on July 19 signed into law a bill allowing state prison officials to take a heavily guarded Shermantine temporarily off death row to show them burial places.
Padilla said Lake County may be a good place to start
"That's a place to bring Shermantine to and say, 'OK, show me or shut up,' " Padilla said.
Earlier this year, the 46-year-old Shermantine wrote letters that led officials to the remains of five murder victims in San Joaquin and Calaveras counties. He sent hand-drawn maps to The Record and to Padilla.
Shermantine, of Linden, and his boyhood hunting buddy Loren Herzog were convicted of multiple murders after their 1999 arrests. Herzog hanged himself Jan. 17 after learning Shermantine was giving up incriminating details.
The duo's killing spree spanned the 1980s and 1990s. The two were avid hunters and frequent methamphetamine abusers.
Following Shermantine's tips, investigators in February unearthed Cyndi Vanderheiden and Chevy "Chevelle" Wheeler near Shermantine family property in Calaveras County.
They also recovered from a Linden well in eastern San Joaquin County the remains of Joann Hobson, Kimberly Billy and a third woman whom investigators have yet to identify.
An earlier attempt to bring Shermantine under heavy security from San Quentin State Prison was thwarted by San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore, who cited security concerns.
Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani, a Stockton Democrat, wrote the legislation that won the governor's signature. A state prison official said last week any search efforts involving Shermantine will be kept secret.
Shermantine told Padilla, who continues to pay the killer for fresh information about the murder victims, that three fellow inmates on death row have told him about the bodies in Lake County.
Shermantine said he is ready to take the blame and lead officials to their location for the sake of the victims' families. Shermantine in recent letters to The Record has begun to claim a role in the murders, but it remains unclear if he's being truthful about his involvement, if any, in the Lake County crimes.
Sgt. Steve Brooks, a Lake County sheriff's spokesman, said his department is ready to help recover any victims there. They'll need Shermantine's help, he said, because Cow Mountain is a rugged patch of 54,000 acres.
"Once we get some decent information we can work off of, we fully intend to investigate this," Brooks said. The Lake County sheriff wants to interview Shermantine.
Cow Mountain is a wild expanse of rugged terrain northwest of Clare Lake open to hunters pursuing deer, turkeys, boar and quail.
Brooks, who just last week learned of Shermantine and his killing spree, said Sheriff Francisco Rivero assigned investigators in his department to research any missing persons from the area.
Brooks said it is most likely that 14 murder victims - if the information bears out - were brought from another area.
"We're working on that right now," Brooks said. "I don't think we have that many missing persons reports."
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That was the message that members of the media and others making the rounds at Friday night's parties had for Tom Brokaw in the face of his renewed criticism of the Correspondents' Association dinner.
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"As a former White House Correspondent, it's really nice for people in politics and media to come together and have a little weekend of fun," MSNBC host Alex Wagner told POLITICO at a reception at the Hay Adams hotel. "I understand the idea of the 'celebrification' of the event but I think it's more of a testament to how interesting and compelling Washington politics is to the outside world."
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ABC's Martha Raddatz said she doesn't make much of the criticism of the event. "It's a fun night," she said. "I don't get to smile much at work with the stories I cover."
Former Mitt Romney spokesman Ryan Williams said, "Tom's obviously entitled to his opinion. It's a fun event for everybody, it's for people from outside Washington [to] come see how things work in the capital and how people in this town operate."
He added, "Hollywood will get their own chance to get a look at the dysfunction and gridlock in this town."
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Brokaw touched off the debate over the dinner when he told POLITICO's Patrick Gavin in an interview that he won't be attending this year's gathering and that the last straw for him was when Lindsay Lohan was invited in 2012. The veteran newsman bemoaned the number of celebs at the dinner and worried how it all looks.
"What kind of image do we present to the rest of the country?" Brokaw asked. "Are we doing their business, or are we just a group of narcissists who are mostly interested in elevating our own profiles? And what comes through the screen on C-SPAN that night is the latter, and not the former."


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Singer Robin Thicke and his actress-model wife, Paula Patton, who first met when he was only 14, have split after more than eight years of marriage, it was reported Monday.
"We will always love each other and be best friends," the couple said in a statement to People that confirmed their mutual decision to separate.
Thicke and Patton — he's 36, she's 38 — married in June 2005 and welcomed son Julian Fuego in April 2010.
Last September, talking to Star magazine (via Radar Online), the "Blurred Lines" singer called his partnership with Patton "the greatest love of the century, and the most functional, dysfunctional marriage in Hollywood," adding that over time they'd realized that they couldn't live without each other.
"My only comment about the so-called scandalous photo would be that my wife and I are perfectly in love and very happily married," he said at the time, referring to a photo of him and a fan at a party after August's MTV Video Music Awards that appeared to show him grabbing the fan's behind.
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It's quite an accomplishment for an independent restaurant to remain open past its first year, let alone a Thai restaurant in Camarillo that's been in business since 1984! Boasting four-star averages from both Yelp and TripAdvisor, Charn Thai is a decently kept secret with a very loyal customer base. Located in the Las Posas Plaza shopping center, Charn is another example of how I've learned, time and time again, not to judge a restaurant by its strip-mall location. In fact, I almost get more excited now when I hear that good food comes from a dodgy location — "Hey man, you gotta check out this Kazakhstani restaurant — it's in a gas station!" "What? Sounds great!" Very hipster of me, I know.
So my wife and I chose to enjoy lunch at Charn. I had eaten there for dinner in the past so it wouldn't have been surprising for the restaurant to be crowded, but I was impressed that, for noon on a Thursday, every seat inside the restaurant was taken. The owner, Joy, greeted us with a warm, familiar smile just as a couple stood up, so we were seated right away — score! The décor is very quaint and modest. The small dining room in front leads to a long hallway of two-person booths running parallel to the kitchen. You get the picture that Charn is set up for speed rather than comfort, so expect to place your order and have that food piping-hot on your table soon thereafter. This form of quick dining at Asian restaurants is a custom that I'm growing to love. In contrast to Western-style dining, it completely eliminates the often useless updates from a server — "Hey, ya'll, I checked with the kitchen again and your salads are still being tossed and should be on your table in the near future. Is there anything else I can get for you in the meantime?" I find myself tempering sarcasm in these situations to avoid a boot to the shin from my wife, who is much sweeter than I. At Charn, you place your order, you eat, you smile, you leave.
We began our meal with the dish that I insist you order at Charn, it is the tom kha gai soup (with shrimp). I kid you not, I want to bathe in this soup to start my day. There is so much flavor coming from the coconut broth, galangal, lemongrass, chili paste, mushrooms, shrimp and green onion that it's actually surprising to find that the balance of this dish is razor sharp. I would give this soup a 10 out of 10 with no room for improvement. We followed that up with the "Chef's Favorite Seafood Salad." The salad (iceberg lettuce and mixed greens) had a refreshing, yet zesty roasted-garlic chili-lime vinaigrette that we both loved. The seafood blend consisted of squid, shrimp and bay scallops, which were accompanied by lemongrass, herbs and onion. The salad packed excellent flavor with nice textural contrasts. I would say, however, that the bay scallops didn't improve the dish and the squid was too chewy, even for squid. That being said, the flavor of the salad was authentic Thai, and the dressing was one of the best I've tasted in a long time.
We scanned the menu in search of our entrees and nearly got lost in the process. The menu is massive and has some very unique offerings, including curry dishes, honey barbecue pork ribs, fish entrees, crispy roasted honey duck, vegetarian dishes and, of course, the traditional Thai rice and noodle dishes. The menu can be overwhelming with at least 81 different meals to choose from (which is about 60 more options than I usually prefer). We went with the lunch special of housemade barbecue pork chow mein, shrimp pad Thai and fried rice with egg. The first words my wife said were, "This pad Thai is perfect." The noodles are light and don't clump together, the sauce is exactly what you want it to be, the shrimp are nicely cooked, and the bean sprouts, green onion and crushed peanuts round the dish out beautifully. I'm literally eating leftovers of the pad Thai as I type this article — so you know it's good. The fried rice tasted light and fresh — not typical of my experiences with Thai food in Ventura County, where it often tastes heavy. The slight char on the grains of rice give you some caramelized flavor, and that proved to be a very positive difference for me. As for the daily special of barbecue pork chow mein, it tasted like old-school Chinese comfort food, but definitely strayed away from the balanced Thai flavors that I would stick with at Charn.
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Your definition here is purely arbitrary and pragmatic [the brain continues developing after birth, a development entirely contingent on environment]. Why at birth, why not before birth, or sometime after birth? I can see where this is going (viz prolife/prochoice).
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If we set aside Murrays overstated case and look solely at the science, why do you all think the results are skewed one way or the other?
When the Irish became white did their IQ go up? What about Italians? Or did they drag the White Race down?
I've done the second (a while ago, tho') but definitely fall short on the first and third counts.
The Slate article is a bit of a dog's dinner, tbh.
Regarding Murray's book: as far as I remember, the main sociological point that was made was that society is failing its not-so-smart citizens while the 'cognitive elite' live it up.
As far as wealth and IQ goes, high IQ helps ppl create wealth (cultural, economic) in the first place and allows them to sustain it.
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why does *anyone* still believe that it makes sense to talk about IQ as if it actually measured something real??? Why should/would/could there be a unary measure of "general intelligence"? Has anyone read Gould's Mismeasure of Man? Essential on the story of scientific racism from the 19th century to the mid-20th century.
some of his other tedious offerings.
murray is a racist, classist, sexist, prick and all his idiotic views can discounted/ignored.
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There is no science whatsoever in any of this, it is entirely based on a racialized pathologization of the human population rationalized via an elaborate distortion of data and twisted notions of 'general intelligence', a perverse, fascistic pseudo-science (or 'scientism' as Popper called it in The Poverty of Historicism). And its not at all surprising that these obscene, fascist notions should be gaining popularity once again in response to a rapidly globalising, predatory capitalism.
Intellectual brown shirts - Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, authors of 'The Bell Curve' - by Adolph Reed, Jr.
In The New York Times Magazine, Charles Murray recently tried to defend himself against charges that he doesn't like women by jovially recalling his romps as a consumer in the Thai sex trade during his old Peace Corps days. In the profile, part of the media blitz accompanying publication of his book, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, Murray recoiled elaborately from characterizing his partners as prostitutes. (He prefers "courtesans" or "ladies of the evening," perhaps seeking to preserve to the end his illusion that he was not simply buying the sexual services of women who provided them because they were exploited, oppressed, and quite likely enslaved.)
It is certainly understandable that Murray - who, despite a Harvard/MIT pedigree, basically knocked around doing nothing special until the threshold of middle age, when in an epiphany he discovered the novel truth that people with power and privilege really are superior and that everyone else is defective - would avoid the "p" word. You know, like Dracula and mirrors.
The Bell Curve is a vile, disingenuously vicious book by two truly odious men, Murray and Richard Herrnstein, the Harvard psychologist known outside the academy - like his Berkeley counterpart, Arthur Jensen - for a more than twenty-year crusade to justify all existing inequality by attributing it to innate differences in intelligence. Murray's epiphany led to Losing Ground, in which he argued that the source of poverty among black Americans in particular, the so-called urban underclass, is the attempt to alleviate poverty through social provision. The welfare system, he argued, provides perverse incentives that encourage indolence, wanton sexual reproduction, and general profligacy.
Appropriately for a book bearing a 1984 publication date, Losing Ground proposed that the best way to help the poor, therefore, is simply to eliminate all social support. A regimen on the good old-fashioned model of root, hog, or die would shape up that lazy human dreck on pain of extermination. This argument made him the Reagan Administration's favorite social scientist and pushed him into a seat on the standing committee of the politburo of the social policy industry.
Imagine the celebrity of Thomas Malthus (maybe even an American Express commercial or a Nike endorsement?) if he could come back into a world with computers that do multiple regression analysis.
As their title implies, Murray and Herrnstein contend that the key to explaining all inequality and all social problems in the United States is stratification by a unitary entity called intelligence, or "cognitive ability" - as measured, of course, by "IQ." This claim has resurfaced repeatedly over the last seventy-five years only to be refuted each time as unfounded class, race, and gender prejudice. (See, for instance, Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man.) Yet The Bell Curve advances it with the same deluge of statistical and logical sophistries that has driven its predecessors.
Murray and Herrnstein reject a substantial body of scholarship discrediting the idea that there is some single thing identifiable as "intelligence" that can be measured and assigned numerical rank. Instead, they see rigid IQ stratification operating through every sphere of social life.
But The Bell Curve adds two new wrinkles. First is the claim that IQ stratification is becoming ever more intense and central in a supposedly postindustrial world that requires and rewards cognitive ability over all else. Second, they shy away from expressing the strength of their eugenic convictions, the memory of the Nazi death camps having not yet faded. Instead of direct endorsement of extermination, mass sterilization, and selective breeding, which nonetheless implicitly shadow the book, Murray and Herrnstein propose a world in which people will be slotted into places that fit their cognitive ability.
The effect will be to end resentment from and against those who seek more than their just deserts. Of course, we'll have to have controls to make sure that dullards do what is best for them and don't get out of line. But that price is necessary to avoid continuing the social breakdown that will eventually force the cognitive elite, increasingly merged with the intellectually ordinary petite bourgeoisie, to mobilize in self-defense and use its superior intelligence to establish itself as an oligarchic caste. We may, that is, have to destroy democracy to save it.
The Bell Curve is - beneath the mind-numbing barrage of numbers - really just a compendium of reactionary prejudices. Despite their insistence that it is not so reducible, the authors frequently infer "cognitive ability" from education or simply class position. For example, corporate CEOs must have high IQs, the authors decide, for how else could they have risen to lead large complex organizations?
IQ shapes far-sightedness, moral sense, the decisions not to get pregnant, to be employed, not to be a female head of household, to marry and to remain married to one's first spouse (presumably the divorced and remarried Murray has an exemption from this criterion), to nurture and attend to one's offspring, etc.
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Adolph Reed Jr. teaches political science at Northwestern University and serves on the boards of the Public Citizen Foundation and the Chicago-based Coalition for New Priorities. His column appears in this space every other month.Simply being stopped but not charged by the police becomes evidence of an IQ-graded tendency to criminality. (White men who never have been stopped have an average IQ of 106; those who have been schlep along at 103.) Instructively, they restrict their analysis of white criminality to a male sample and parenting to a female sample. "Parents"=mothers. And while they examine abuse and neglect of children among this female sample, spousal abuse is mentioned nowhere in the book, much less considered a discrete form of male criminality.
The analysis of supposed white variation in IQ, though, is ultimately a front to fend off charges of racism. What really drives this book, and reflects the diabolical power of the Murray/Herrnstein combination, is its claim to demonstrate black intellectual inferiority. They use IQ to support a "twofer": opposition to affirmative action, which only over-places incompetent blacks, and contention that black poverty derives from the existence of an innately inferior black underclass. (They actually waffle on their key claim, that IQ is inherited and fixed by nature, but, having granted in passing that it may not be, they go on to treat it as immutable.)
As has been conventional to a stream of racism claiming scientific justification since Thomas Jefferson, Murray and Herrnstein feign a posture of neutral, if not pained, messengers delivering the indisputable facts. Since the book's publication, Murray has insisted that he and Herrnstein in no way want to be associated with racism, that the book is not even about race, which is the topic of only one of the book's twenty-two chapters. Beneath his distinctively sibilant piety, here, as elsewhere, Murray is a liar.
In addition to the infamous Chapter Thirteen, "Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability," three others center on arguments about black (and, to varying degrees, Latino) inferiority. The very next chapter, "Ethnic Inequalities in Relation to IQ," is a direct attempt to explain existing racial stratification along socioeconomic lines as the reflection of differences in group intelligence. The other two chapters in Part III seek to pull together claims about racial differences in intelligence and behavior. Those four chapters set the stage for the book's only two explicitly policy-driven chapters, "Affirmative Action in Higher Education" and "Affirmative Action in the Workplace," both of which are about initiatives directed toward blacks and slide into stoking white populist racism with hypothetical cases of poor or working class whites shunted aside in favor of under-qualified, well-off blacks.
Murray's protests suggest something about his views of race, however. The Bell Curve makes a big deal of restricting the eight chapters of Part II to discussion of whites alone. Whites, presumably, are also a "race," as much as blacks, Latinos, and Asians are. Therefore, well over half the book is organized consciously around race as a unit of analysis. Moreover, the theme of racially skewed intelligence runs through the entire book. And how could it be otherwise in a book whose point is that the society is and must be stratified by intelligence, which is distributed unequally among individuals and racial groups and cannot be changed in either.
Despite their attempts to insulate themselves from the appearance of racism, Herrnstein and Murray display a perspective worthy of an Alabama filling station. After acknowledging that genetic variations among individuals in a given race are greater than those among races, they persist in maintaining that racially defined populations must differ genetically in significant ways, otherwise they wouldn't have different skin color or hair texture.
Most tellingly, however, they attempt explicitly to legitimize the work of J. Philippe Rushton, the Canadian psychologist who resuscitates classic Nineteenth Century scientific racism in its most literal trappings - measuring cranial capacities, brain weights, and penis sizes to argue for racially separate rates and patterns of evolution. They announce self-righteously that "Rushton's work is not that of a crackpot or a bigot, as many of his critics are given to charging." This about a man who attempts racial rankings on "Criteria for Civilization" (only "Caucasoids," naturally enough, have met all the twenty-one criteria on his checklist) and "Personality and Temperament Traits," in addition to erect penis size (by length and circumference, no less) and who computes an "Interbreeding Depression Score" to help clarify his statistical findings!
The Rushton connection reflects a particularly revealing and sinister aspect of the Herrnstein/Murray collaboration. It is embedded in the intellectual apparatus of the cryptofascist right. The central authorities on whom they rely for their claims about IQ, race, and heredity are nearly all associated with the Pioneer Fund, an ultrarightist foundation that boasts of having been almost entirely responsible for funding IQ and race and heredity research in the United States in the last twenty years, and much of it worldwide. (Rushton, along with almost everyone else who writes jacket blurbs for his book, is a major recipient of Pioneer grants.)
The Fund is also deeply implicated in the movement to restrict immigration (see Ruth Conniff, "The War on Aliens" in the October 1993 issue of The Progressive) and has helped bankroll California's nativist Proposition 187. Wealthy American eugenicist racists created the Fund in the 1930s, as Stefan Kuhl recounts in The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism, to "'improve the character of the American people' by encouraging the procreation of descendants of `white persons who settled the original thirteen colonies prior to the adoption of the constitution.'"
Professor Barry Sautman of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology notes that this international network of racist scholars, quite like Herrnstein and Murray, recently has converged around tentative claims that Asians, especially Northeast Asians, rank above whites on the scale of competence. The researchers hold up this thesis, which is gaining adherents among Asian reactionaries, as a way of deflecting charges of racism.
What makes this international vipers' nest so dangerous is that many of its members have maintained academic respectability. Rushton, for instance, as recently as 1988 won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Others routinely do contract research for the U.S. military. Most hold respectable university appointments. I can't account for the others' legitimacy because their academic precincts are far enough away from mine that I don't have a sense for the protocols that govern them or what other kinds of scholarship they may do.
But Murray is a different matter. He has been an intellectual Brown Shirt since he first slithered into public life. He has neither changed nor done anything else that might redeem his reputation as a scholar. We can trace his legitimacy to the spineless opportunism and racial and ideological bad faith of the liberals in the social-policy establishment. They have never denounced him. Instead, across the board they have acquiesced in his desire to be seen as a serious and careful, albeit conservative, scholar. They appear on panels with him and engage him as a fellow worker in the vineyard of truth. They have allowed him to set the terms of debate over social welfare and bend over backward not to attack him sharply. Take a look, for instance at the first chapter of William Julius Wilson's catechism of liberal underclass ideology, The Truly Disadvantaged, and compare the way that Wilson treats liberal and left critics of the culture of poverty notion and the way he treats Murray.
Indeed, their response to The Bell Curve should give us important insight into just how bankrupt the new technicians of dispossession are. There's not much reason for optimism on this score. This past July, Daniel Patrick Moynihan announced at his Senate Finance Committee hearing on welfare reform that we could be witnessing the processes of "speciation" at work among the inner-city poor. And he did so with the assent of Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, and her two world-class liberal poverty-researcher under secretaries, Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood (the originator of the "two years and off" policy who, incidentally, shows up in The Bell Curve's acknowledgements). Just how different is that from Rushton or the Aryan Nation or the old White Citizens Council?
Your statement is wilfully disingenuous. Mixed Biscuits was merely seeking well-informedWhat an appallingly ignorant claim to make. I suppose nobody is 'qualified' to talk or question racist eugenics or the Nazi eugenics programme either unless "they can handle the stats", have actually studied all the relevant racist texts and "have also done a thorough literature review".
dissection of researched facts.
You got your opinions off Adolph Reed Jr.'s chest forcefully enough, but without recourse to anything but slurs and nebulous diatribes. I am far from willing to admit that one's character and motives (in this case Murray's) guarantee the corruption of one's methods and findings. If there is racist bias in Murray's work, illuminate his work and hence his leanings rather than the other way round. I must say that Reed's wild language
and hints of pre-determined conclusionssince he first slithered into public life
damages its validity as sober scientific argumentation and leaves him open to charges of hypocrisy.only "Caucasoids," naturally enough, have met all the twenty-one criteria on his checklist
It is intriguing to know if there are differences between the races of mankind. Not everything in this world stems from or incites prejudice. Stupid people are less intelligent than intelligent people, racists will always be racists, and the open-minded will never be turned by dots on a graph.
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The authors were reported throughout the popular press as arguing that these IQ differences are genetic, although they state no position on the issue in the book, and write in the introduction to Chapter 13 that "The debate about whether and how much genes and environment have to do with ethnic differences remains unresolved."


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