"Extra Credit": Not a Top Ten List, but . . .Remember the time Young Johnny McCranky blew Dave off the night he had suspended his campaign because of campaign finances, and appeared with Katie Couric the same day?
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | October 26, 2013
When the largest donor to Republican political organizations urges the U.S. military to detonate a nuclear bomb in an Iranian desert with the explicit warning that “the next one is in the middle of Tehran,” you might expect that major American political figures and large U.S. media outlets would strongly denounce such genocidal blackmail.
UPDATE: For a contrary argument on the constitutionality of repealing a law by defunding it, see the comment by esteemed legal commentator Michael Froomkin in the comments section.[You should be able to click on this News Alert to enlarge it.]"The constitutional process for repealing a law -- such as Congress and President Clinton did with the old Glass-Steagall Act -- is for both houses to enact a new bill that repeals the old, which must then be signed by the President.
