Because Democracy is Not Free — we all have to work at it
I am a big proponent of liberal first amendment rights. In this blog’s history, I have only censored two comments. One was from someone whose post was a bit nonsensical, but I could tell it wasn’t spam. In retrospect, I think I should have let it pass through. The second comment was from someone who [...]
Andrew Schultz has now sent in a pleading stating that three witnesses are all going to make a program statement on behalf of someone else. What did I tell you about the culture of Abu Gharib? Oh, and wait until this high-ranking individual finds out what has been promised to the public on his behalf! [...]
Now that I’ve vacated my job, perhaps there’s an opening for Sylvia Welsh. She suffers from the same absurdity of thought as the federal employees I’ve dealt with. Ms. Welsh (future federal employee) encourages you not to vote for a candidate who can’t cheat on his wife.** I bet this woman would fit right in [...]
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Included on the resource page for pro se appellants, is a Word document with the beginning of deposition questions. These were taken from a previous deposition that one of my attorneys conducted on Robert Gaddie and Nancy Treadwell (Sefakis). I added a couple more when I took depositions recently, and now that I think about [...]
From the LA Times, “Supreme Court gives workers protection from retaliation.” I haven’t had a lot of time to read through it, but it’s a stunner. The Supreme Court, thought to be extremely pro-business, dealt a high hand to workers in these latest two decisions cited. Federal workers will be extremely interested in the second [...]
I’m not extremely religious, but I must say, “Thank you Lord, for Andrew Schultz!” He’s just turned in his prehearing exhibits, and wouldn’t you know it, he’s included the blog entries most incriminating to both himself and MSPB from this site. Surely when this case gets sent for appeal, the full board, or the federal circuit [...]
Even on paper, some of the decisions of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) are so odd they defy logic. Take, for instance, the it’s okay to flog a whistleblower ruling. One would think that at least someone would have made a huge joke of it. Surely I wasn’t the first to have it applied. The only [...]
I was proud of the New York Times for breaking ranks with mainstream media and publishing its exposé on “message force multipliers,” a government-organized force of media military analysts with ties to the defense industry. I was proud of it for its special series, War Torn: A series of articles and multimedia about veterans of the wars in Iraq [...]