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Discursive Comments On The Oral Argument In The Court of Appeals In The Madoff Case On March 3, 2011. Part 5 Updated: 2011-06-02 13:55:50 Description: Next up was Helen Chaitman for rebuttal. Before detailing her argument, let me describe some events that preceded the oral argument. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Discursive Comments On The Oral Argument In The Court of Appeals In The Madoff Case On March 3, 2011. Part 4 Updated: 2011-04-22 00:28:17 Description: The final opponent to argue was Michael Conley of the SEC. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.edu And to hear (and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Discursive Comments On The Oral Argument In The Court of Appeals In The Madoff Case On March 3, 2011. Part 3 Updated: 2011-04-21 00:26:11 Description: The next to argue for our opponents was the Trustee's Counsel, David Sheehan, who has made himself the bete noire of many victims by what they consider his pit bull attitudes, insults, and sometimes outlandish comments (such as that no legislator wou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Discursive Comments On The Oral Argument In The Court of Appeals In The Madoff Case On March 3, 2011. Part 2 Updated: 2011-04-19 15:42:48 Description: This Part 2 will deal with the oral argument of the first opponent to argue, the General Counsel of SIPC, Josephine Wang. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massach...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Discursive Comments On The Oral Argument In The Court of Appeals In The Madoff Case On March 3, 2011. Part 1B Updated: 2011-04-18 15:32:04 Description: The oral argument was, I think, the most complex one it has ever been my misfortune to have read, but I feel I now have a reasonable, if imperfect, grasp of most of it. So I shall now set forth some views. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Discursive Comments On The Oral Argument In The Court of Appeals In The Madoff Case On March 3, 2011-Part 1A Updated: 2011-04-18 15:09:58 Description: The oral argument was, I think, the most complex one it has ever been my misfortune to have read, but I feel I now have a reasonable, if imperfect, grasp of most of it. So I shall now set forth some views. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Effect Of The Garrett Bill On Indirects Updated: 2011-04-05 23:35:17 Description: Allow me to make some points that, as far as I know, no one else has made with regard to the beneficial effect of the Garrett bill on indirects. These effects exist though the bill does not mention indirects. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrenc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Comments On SIPC's Answers Of January 24th To Questions Asked By Congressman Garrett Updated: 2011-03-28 19:12:01 Description: A couple of people have asked for my reactions to SIPC's January 24th answers to questions posed to it by Congressman Garrett. Because SIPC's answers have now been made public, I am posting some slightly redacted comments I sent on january 28th to co...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Trustee's Complaint Against JP Morgan Chase. Updated: 2011-03-17 00:12:17 Description: A few days ago, when I was just beginning to read the Trustee's complaint against JP Morgan Chase, I posted the fairly dramatic introduction to the complaint. Having now read the entire complaint, I would like to add a few comments. This is th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Trustees Complaint on JP Morgan Updated: 2011-03-11 00:08:28 Description: I have begun to read the newly unsealed complaint filed by the Trustee against JP Morgan Chase. When finished, I may or may not write about it - I haven't decided. But I do think that all of you should be given an opportunity to read the complaint's ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The President Who "Makes Nice" And Lacks Judgment Updated: 2010-11-04 21:43:28 Description: Two Years ago I thought Obama was one of the smartest men, and conceivably the best speaker, ever to enter the White House. Today my main impression is that, for all his intellectual smarts, he is horribly lacking in judgment. Crassly put, he is a fo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Information Provided To Congress By SIPC. Part II Updated: 2010-10-15 22:04:52 Description: I have written many times in blogs, books and elsewhere that secrecy (and associated falsity) is the most serious problem human beings face, since people are usually able to figure out what to do when they know the facts. It is no different here. Th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Information Provided To Congress By SIPC. - Part I Updated: 2010-10-07 19:28:47 Description: As you will see by reading them, SIPC's answers are filled with self justifying verbal explications -- often identical to what SIPC and the Trustee have said in briefs -- intended to put a gloss on facts it has presented. As well, the answers omit ce...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Addendum to Post of September 21, 2010 Updated: 2010-10-05 21:19:54 Description: The awful tally is 217 points scored by Syracuse and 392 scored against it. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.edu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The One (or Two) Dimensional Coach. Updated: 2010-09-30 23:12:00 Description: <p>It took Rodriguez awhile to recruit his kind of players, now he has done so, and look at the results. Well, the results are a marvelous offense, at least so far, and I would think that success likely to continue even when Michigan starts pla...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SIPC Task Force Updated: 2010-09-29 23:35:00 Description: <p> Because of the major brouhaha raised by SIPC's announcement of a special review committee, I have decided to put my initial views in writing.</p> <p>This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, <a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Foreign And Domestic Indirects Updated: 2010-04-01 16:13:00 Description: <p>The Trustee has moved for a hearing on who is a customer. In his Motion he said he had denied about 8,500 claims of people who did not have an account with Madoff in their own names (i.e., were indirects in one way or another) and that about...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Judge Lifland's Opinion On Net Equity Updated: 2010-03-21 23:36:00 Description: <p>Having spent time assessing Judge Lifland's opinion of March 1st, I shall set forth some impressions of it. I shall not deal with the entire opinion, especially since so much of it is taken from the briefs of the Trustee and SIPC.</p> ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD More On SIPC's And The Trustee's Bubbe Meisse. Plus: Can The Fact That SIPC And The Trustee Have Created A Bubbe Meisse Be Put Updated: 2010-03-08 20:36:00 Description: <p> On Wednesday, February 17th, I wrote of the underlying theory invented from whole cloth by SIPC and Trustee -- on Wednesday I wrote of their bubbe meisse. Yesterday, Thursday, February 18th, I posted an analogy that made it easier, eve...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD More On The Bubbe Meisse of SIPC and The Trustee Updated: 2010-03-04 21:47:00 Description: <p>Though the last part of yesterday's post discussed truly crucial matters, I recognize that the post was long and complex, and therefore think it entirely possible, perhaps even likely, that even some or many of those who read it did not read...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Comments On The Hearing Of February 2nd Before Judge Lifland-February 17, 2010 Updated: 2010-03-04 02:57:00 Description: <p>I did not attend the hearing before Judge Lifland, but have read the transcript and obtained some impressions, a few of which I have not seen alluded to elsewhere. Let me begin with a few matters heavily involving personalia (a Frankfurteria...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Transcript Of An Interview With The Five Conservative Justices About The Recent Corporate Free Speech Case. - February 1, 2010 Updated: 2010-02-06 23:25:00 Description: <p>Your reporter recently was fortunate enough to be granted an interview by five Justices of the Supreme Court, Anthony Kennedy, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. The subject of the interview was the Court's recen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Judge Lifland's Schedules For Oral Argument On February 2nd Updated: 2010-02-03 23:31:00 Description: <p> In looking at the schedules approved by Judge Lifland for the oral argument on February 2nd, one fact sticks out like a sore thumb to a former litigator.</p> <p>This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Some Important Ideas Regarding Madoff That May Not Have Been Picked Up On Yet, And Comments On The Mid January Briefs Of ... Updated: 2010-02-02 02:24:00 Description: <p>Let me start with some generalized comments on the mid January briefs of The Malefactors Three.</p> <p>This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, <a href="http://www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com">ww...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD President Conducts Disquisition On New Anti-Terrorist Plans. Updated: 2010-01-29 00:20:00 Description: <p>President O'Bomber sat for a lengthy third exclusive interview with this reporter recently. This time we discussed the reasons why the CIA failed to connect the dots to stop Abdulmutallab from flying on a Northwest plane to Detroit. (Abdulmu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The CIA Blows It Again, This Time In Connection With The Gilbert Arenas Affair. Updated: 2010-01-13 01:26:00 Description: In his second exclusive interview with this reporter, President B. Rack O'Bomber (aka Anti-Afghan Man) disclosed that the CIA had blown it again, for the 238th consecutive time (as revealed by Tim Weiner in his classic Lagacy of Ashes. This is the au...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The SEC's Brief Filed Before Judge Lifland In Madoff Updated: 2010-01-01 00:22:00 Description: To most of the audience for this posting, one need not explain the history of Madoff from 1992 onward, or explain the economic experiences of the last four decades or so, for readers to grasp the background that engenders my view of the screw-the-lit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD President O'Bomber Defends Acceptance Of NoBull Prize For Implementing Philosophy Of Peace Through War In Goniffstan Updated: 2009-12-22 23:01:00 Description: In a wide ranging interview, President B. Rack O'Bomber defended his refusal to reject the NoBull Peace Prize. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michigan Drops Football Updated: 2009-12-22 22:37:00 Description: "In a shocking development that stunned the entire sports world today, the President of the University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, announced at a press conference that the school had dropped football. Nobody will know this, however," she said, "be...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Let Us Now Seek Competent Men Updated: 2009-11-24 21:53:00 Description: Politicians blow off about anything and everything with almost no knowledge of what they are talking about: Good sound bites, fluent sounding (Obamaesque) speech, are the desiderata, not competent opinions. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Recent Change In The Name Of Our Country Updated: 2009-11-24 20:37:00 Description: My writing having been taken up entirely by l'affaire Madoff for almost a year, it is a pleasure to turn to a very short posting on another matter. Here it is: We now live in the United States of Goldman, Sachs. This is the audio version of Dean Lawr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Briefs Of The Trustee And SIPC On The Net Equity Question Updated: 2009-10-29 22:49:00 Description: Having read the opening briefs filed by the Trustee and by SIPC on the net equity question, I thought to set down a few of what I believe are my most important impressions. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD More On Net Equity. Plus Picower. Updated: 2009-10-20 22:20:00 Description: In reading what little the Trustee has said in the past to justify his cash-in/cash-out position on net equity, a couple of thoughts struck me that, as far as I can recollect, have thus far not been made by opponents. I shall set them forth here. Thi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Report Of SEC Inspector General Kotz Updated: 2009-10-19 19:40:00 Description: In this essay, I shall not attempt to summarize Kotz's 457 page report. What shall be done instead is to discuss a particular perception the report induced in me, plus some points in the report that struck me forcibly and contributed to the perceptio...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Government's Motion Of September 21, 2009 In The Criminal Case Against Madoff Updated: 2009-10-16 21:25:00 Description: On September 21st, the Government made a motion for forfeiture and remission proceedings in the criminal case against Madoff. The motion plainly would result in serious injury to many victims of Madoff, and seemed to me highly objectionable. This is ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Greater And Lesser Potpourri Regarding Madoff, Starting With The IRS And Then Moving To Other Matters. Part II Updated: 2009-09-30 16:06:00 Description: The SEC -- though it ironically is one of the governmental or quasigovernmental bodies most responsible for allowing Madoff to succeed -- has put together what one thinks the best description to date of the methods used by Madoff to fool victims, ag...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Greater And Lesser Potpourri Regarding Madoff, Starting With The IRS And Then Moving To Other Matters. Part 1 Updated: 2009-09-15 23:51:00 Description: If readers do not remember anything else written in this post or in its continuations, I beseech them to remember this: the IRS now appears to have surely admitted, in the letter of August 21st, that its review of Madoff was a paper-only-review -- wa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Irving Picard's Motion To Dismiss The Complaint Filed By Helen Chaitman Updated: 2009-07-31 21:23:00 Description: Let me begin with a matter that leaps off the page. Picard's brief does not so much as mention matters that should be the determinants of net equity: This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Letter to Diana Henriques Updated: 2009-07-31 20:11:00 Description: I congratulate you on your excellent article on custodians on Saturday, July 25th. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Never Discussed Impact Of The Net Equity Question, The Devastating Impact Of Discovery On SIPC's Position Part IV Updated: 2009-07-29 21:41:00 Description: In this fourth segment, let me discuss an argument made by Harbeck and Picard in support of their cash in/cash out position. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Never Discussed Impact Of The Net Equity Question, The Devastating Impact Of Discovery On SIPC's Position Part III Updated: 2009-07-29 20:29:00 Description: When David Sheehan attacked Helen Chaitman by a letter of June 12th, he accused her of making statements for which she could have no evidence. She responded, among other ways, by writing on June 16th that she would be able to prove various of her sta...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Never Discussed Impact Of The Net Equity Question, The Devastating Impact Of Discovery On SIPC's Position Part II Updated: 2009-07-28 19:35:00 Description: If readers remember not one other thing of what is written in this four- part posting, I urge them to remember -- and therefore am repeating yet again -- the possibility that Picard's definition of net equity may deprive them not just of $500,000, bu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Never Discussed Impact Of The Net Equity Question, The Devastating Impact Of Discovery On SIPC's Position Part I Updated: 2009-07-23 23:29:00 Description: This post is being published in four parts. Let me start it with some comments that will surprise a lot of people. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachuse...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Vast Amount That We Don't know About The Madoff Matter Updated: 2009-07-09 20:36:00 Description: We are currently in a place (so to speak) where a simply fantastic amount about the Madoff scam remains unknown; more remains unknown than I can ever remember being true at the time of the plea and sentencing of the lead culprit in any other major fr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SIPC's Objections To The Posting Called "Irving Picard's Three Percent Commission In The Madoff Case" Updated: 2009-06-29 22:42:00 Description: On Thursday, June 11th this author posted an article canvassing and presenting many of the criticisms that are raised. I don't want to bore you by repeating the canvas, but nonetheless shall recapitulate some of the criticisms in summary fashion beca...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Irving Picard's Three Percent Commission In The Madoff Case Updated: 2009-06-25 23:12:00 Description: Time Magazine posted an online article saying that SIPC "Trustees are paid well, receiving personally 3% of anything over $1 million they recover for victims. For example, if $2 billion is ultimately recovered in the Madoff case, Picard stands to mak...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Infestation of Government Values In Industry Updated: 2009-06-18 22:33:00 Description: Now that the government is in effect taking over major industries -- is "freely interposing itself in the management culture of industry after industry," said Brooks-- "CEO's are forced to adopt the traits of politicians" This is the audio version of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, And The Obama Administration. Part III Updated: 2009-05-31 15:39:00 Description: It seems to me clear beyond peradventure, as they say, that what Obama is doing with regard to torture, the pictures and Afghanistan is that he is temporizing, is playing both ends against the middle, is trying to ward off opposition from the conserv...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Concept of Net Equity Being Used By the Trustee and SIPC Updated: 2009-05-27 19:30:00 Description: It seems obvious that it is illegitimate in the extreme for Picard and Harbeck to use a rigged definition of net equity in order to lessen the amount people receive from SIPC and to create clawbacks where they otherwise would not exist. This is the a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, And The Obama Administration. Part II Updated: 2009-05-16 21:39:00 Description: I recently read the 2009 book by Neal Bascomb called Hunting Eichmann. I learned a lot I had not previously known. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachuse...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Justice Jackson's (pre-justiceship) Speech of December 1936 Updated: 2009-05-16 18:07:00 Description: Law Professor John Q. Barrett of St. John's (barrett@stohns.edu) is writing a biography of Justice Robert Jackson, perhaps the greatest writer ever to sit on the Supreme Court and the first American Chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg. This is the audio ve...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, And The Obama Administration Updated: 2009-05-05 01:13:00 Description: I have read the four memoranda that were recently released by the DOJ and authorized torture. Permit me to invent a similar but short memo that will allow the reader to grasp their style, their character, their techniques, their aims, and inherently ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Feeder Funds And The SIPC Updated: 2009-04-23 04:48:00 Description: In this connection, though I personally am a direct investor, I am one of those who have never understood the morality or the decency of denying SIPC recovery to those who invested through feeder funds. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. V...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Was The IRS As Culpable As The SEC In The Madoff Scam? Updated: 2009-04-21 02:06:00 Description: If the possibility raised here turns out to be true, as I suspect will be the case, this would be a disaster for the country. For it would mean that what is perhaps the one agency which above all others must be kept competent and clean as a whistle, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Madoff And The Mafia: A Mere Speculation Or Almost A Sure Thing? Updated: 2009-04-08 00:31:00 Description: Unless and until the government uncovers and discloses that there was a tie to organized crime, the idea that the Italian, Jewish, Irish, or more lately, Russian Mafia were involved must remain mere speculation, speculation that might be right or wr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Letter To Judge Chin Regarding Madoff's Guilty Plea, And A Response To A Madoff Victim Regarding The Curative Bond Proposal Updated: 2009-04-05 00:56:00 Description: Appended below are two documents that were not initially posted on my site (Velvelonnationalaffairs.com) or on OpEd News. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Mas...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Madoff: The Simple, Clean, Curative Bond Proposal That Has Been Completely Forgotten. Updated: 2009-04-03 01:17:00 Description: Forget about tax refunds. Forget about tax deductions. Forget about SIPC. Waive them all. Instead, the government should give all victims government bonds whose principal is payable at the end of ten years, and whose interest rate, payable annually, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Is This Country Robert Welch Or Joe McCarthy? Updated: 2009-03-31 23:51:00 Description: This country may now have arrived at a Robert Welch moment, a moment when it must show it has a sense of decency and must declare itself to be on the side of decent men like Robert Welch or it must show it has no decency and is on the side of bums li...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Tax Views Of Deadeye, The SEC's Customary Action, And Losses Of Non Madoff Investors. Updated: 2009-03-31 22:35:00 Description: Last Friday I received a phone call from a friend of 45 years standing. I'll call him Deadeye. Deadeye is a brilliant fellow. He finished first in his class in a significant eastern law school, and has spent 47 years as a tax lawyer. Deadeye wanted t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Serious Shortcomings Of The Guidance Issued On Tuesday By The IRS Updated: 2009-03-21 23:25:00 Description: The 16th Amendment to the Constitution gives Congress power to levy an income tax on all "incomes, from whatever source derived." It turns out that, to the extent that people did not physically withdraw appreciation in their accounts from Madoff, the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD No Siree Nocera[h]. You Are Dead Wrong Updated: 2009-03-19 00:37:00 Description: Let me describe some of Joe Nocera's tricks in last Saturday's article before getting to the meat of his argument. Read the piece yourself and you will see these tricks in full flower. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Madoff Did Not Exactly Take It On The Chin Last Thursday Updated: 2009-03-17 01:38:00 Description: Reading the transcript with a lawyer's eye, it seems evident that Judge Chin had made up his mind as to what he was going to do before he walked into the courtroom. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaf...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Aspects Of The General Economic Disaster; More On The SEC's Culpability In Madoff. Updated: 2009-02-26 23:18:00 Description: Just as an orthodox blogger might, I am writing this post on an airplane. Several points will be made, each with relative brevity - at least for me. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Of Markopolos And Madoff, New Times And Conventional Wisdom, SIPC And Clawbacks, Equitable Estoppel And Declaratory Judgments Updated: 2009-02-25 23:29:00 Description: The hearings before Congress on the Madoff scandal on February 4th put one in mind of some pertinent, hopefully salient, ideas. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on T...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD More On The Madoff Mess: A Post In Three Installments. Part III Updated: 2009-02-17 22:41:00 Description: I wish to conclude by discussing possible legislative action in congress. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.ed...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD More On The Madoff Mess: A Post In Three Installments. Part II Updated: 2009-02-10 21:41:00 Description: Two things should be said with regard to potential suits against the SEC. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.ed...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD More On The Madoff Mess: A Post In Three Installments. Part I Updated: 2009-02-06 23:04:00 Description: They are victims of Madoff. They are not the billionaires, huge international funds, or gigantic banks that the media focuses on. They are plain Americans who worked like dogs all their lives. They are selling their houses to raise money to live, the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Investing With Bernie Madoff: How It Happened, What Happened, And What Might Be Done. Part VI Updated: 2009-02-05 23:24:00 Description: The courses of action discussed here previously all have major shortcomings: they leave people very short of money to live on, they harm the innocent, they take way too long, they are uncertain. There is a different course of action, however, which w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Investing With Bernie Madoff: How It Happened, What Happened, And What Might Be Done. Part V Updated: 2009-02-04 21:06:00 Description: I turn now from preliminary comments to specific courses of action. As you will see, each course of action being generally discussed in the media today will be insufficient, will be too little, too late, especially because the law is not designed to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Investing With Bernie Madoff: How It Happened, What Happened, And What Might Be Done. Part IV Updated: 2009-02-03 22:43:00 Description: In the final three installments of the posts on the Madoff mess, I will discuss how much was stolen, where did it go, and what can be done for victims. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com F...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Investing With Bernie Madoff: How It Happened, What Happened, And What Might Be Done. Part III Updated: 2009-01-30 00:36:00 Description: The SEC's failure to investigate and put an end to Madoff's crime, its announcing in 1992 that there was no problem with Madoff and its failure ever to correct that statement, its consequent sabotaging of thousands of investors with the literal impov...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Investing With Bernie Madoff: How It Happened, What Happened, And What Might Be Done. Part II Updated: 2009-01-28 22:50:00 Description: A foremost red flag was that Madoff apparently was not even making the trades of securities shown on the monthly statements. The trades shown on the monthly statements were fictitious, a fact which still seems unbelievable a month after the scandal b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Investing With Bernie Madoff: How It Happened, What Happened, And What Might Be Done. Part I Updated: 2009-01-27 00:02:00 Description: I first heard of Bernie Madoff at some point in approximately the early 1990s. I think it must have been sometime around 1992 or 1993 because one of the points that made a big impression when I heard of him was that the SEC had investigated and had p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Preliminary Memorandum Of The Justice Robert H. Jackson Conference On Federal Prosecutions Of War Criminals Updated: 2009-01-10 21:15:00 Description: An extensive complaint seeking federal prosecution of American officials who ordered, authorized, approved or committed war crimes is currently being prepared. While the complaint is in preparation, the Steering Committee of the Justice Robert H. Jac...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Goodbye And Good Riddance To 2008 Updated: 2008-12-24 15:13:00 Description: The year started bad, it stayed bad, it had a temporary uptick because of Obama's victory, but it ended bad. Bad, bad, good, bad. On balance that's bad. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fitzgerald and Blogojevich Updated: 2008-12-16 15:47:00 Description: Given that the crookedness Blagojevich is accused of has been an everyday matter in American politics for scores upon scores of years, why did Fitzgerald bring a case?This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationala...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Practical, Defensible One-Off Solution To The Problem Of True Terrorists At Gitmo Updated: 2008-11-26 20:49:00 Description: Under this one-off exception, (1) evidence obtained against the prior terrorists by illegal torture or abuse would be admitted if it appears reliable, while (2) further illegal obtaining of evidence via torture and abuse is deterred by bringing prose...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Obama And Afghanistan; Obama And The Second Coming Of Clintonia Updated: 2008-11-26 00:35:00 Description: If Obama were to fight a war in Afghanistan, his presidency would be as good as over. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bring Back Bump Elliott Updated: 2008-11-20 03:29:00 Description: The Remark is directed at the fact that Michigan may have made the mistake of a lifetime, so to speak, when it hired Rich Rodriguez as coach to replace the underachieving Lloyd Carr. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.v...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD If You Want Economic Recovery, Eliminate The Capital Gains Tax On Profits From Monies Used To Purchase New Plant And Equipment Updated: 2008-11-10 23:57:00 Description: The first requisite of economic recovery is to give money to those who will spend it because they are in need. they will spend the money not hoard it, and their expenditures will help revival. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's bl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Creating And Sustaining The Unsustainable Updated: 2008-11-08 22:36:00 Description: Today we are paying the price for a Wall Street system, a market system, a credit system, a housing system, that was (were?) on a shooting star trajectory -- which has now collapsed in what is likely a regression to the mean. This is the audio versi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A New Modest Proposal: The Questions At The So-Called Debates Should Reflect The Answers, Since The Answers Will Not Reflect Th Updated: 2008-10-22 00:16:00 Description: Moderators should not ask questions which candidates (dishonestly) will not answer and will instead use merely as springboards to their talking points. Instead, moderators should simply say such things as, "Senator, tell us for two mnutes whatever yo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Alan Dershowitz On Whether To Prosecute Executive Branch Criminals Updated: 2008-10-21 00:50:00 Description: Does Alan Dershowitz arrive at positions and then find or invent alleged reasons in support later? This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of La...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Bigger The Company, The More Disastrous The Mistake Updated: 2008-09-29 18:08:00 Description: Today there is a crisis on Wall Street. It involves enormous losses. It threatens the economy. One reason it is of such magnitude is that the institutions of Wall Street were allowed to become so huge. They are so big that their mistakes and their f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Attempted Statutory Immunity For The Executive's War Crimes Updated: 2008-09-23 21:48:00 Description: Based on fairly extensive readings from about 2002-2003 until today, it seems pretty clear that people who were responsible for or committed torture were well aware from the get - go that what they were doing constituted crimes. That realization is w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Momentary And The More Permanent Updated: 2008-09-15 20:33:00 Description: If you had to choose, for an important position requiring brains, between a person who was among the best in his class at the Harvard Law School and a person who was near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, you would obviously choose, sinc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mukasey - The Orthodox Jew Who Is A Disgrace To Our Religion- Again Protects Evil. Updated: 2008-08-11 18:13:00 Description: .... my deep concern for Israel and for Jews as a people lead me to revile those bastards because not only have they been a disaster for the United States itself, but they also seem to have gone far toward achieving the very opposite of what they wan...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD More Main Stream Media Malfeasance-The Conyers Hearing And Tom Brokaw's So-Called "Interview" Of Obama Updated: 2008-08-03 15:52:00 Description: ... Never have I seen (Tom Brokaw) so obviously angry, so obviously antagonistic, as when interviewing Obama... This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Forgetting The Fundamentals In Regard To Oil And Afghanistan Updated: 2008-08-01 16:50:00 Description: What do we need to do to ensure that the price the price of oil is not at some artificially high level set by a speculative futures market on which some financiers make killings while hundreds of millions of ordinary people get screwed at the gas pum...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Zbigniew Brzezinski, Lawrence Wilkerson, And Barack Obama On Afghanistan Updated: 2008-07-31 01:53:00 Description: Obama .. seems to be drinking the same Kool Aid that was drunk by, and destroyed the presidencies of, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. He is spouting apocalyptic visions combined with a possible need for unilateral warmaking....If Ob...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Evil Judges And Dumb Politicians Updated: 2008-07-10 19:37:00 Description: Surrounded by friends, allies and well wishers who, being politicians, are inevitably likely to press one bad idea after another on him, Obama’s ability to think, to resist the bad, will be tested. It probably would serve him well... to find... a c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Prosecuting Bush, Cheney et al For War Crimes Updated: 2008-07-03 17:37:00 Description: ... today we not only have a years-long unwinnable war, but also torture, kidnappings and renderings to foreign countries for torture, many years of detention without trial of people who are innocent, the use of massive private armies to help carry o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Alexander Pekelis And Drug Company Cases In Which Consumers Have Been Killed Or Injured. Updated: 2008-07-02 19:33:00 Description: ...We know that thousands of people have been killed or injured because of defective and dangerous drugs and devices or inadequate warnings on labels. Unless everything the Times has written is a lie, we know that this disaster is in part due to the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eric Lichtblaus Unpersuasive Defense Of The New York Times Updated: 2008-06-02 17:07:00 Description: Eric Lichtblau’s Unpersuasive Defense Of The New York Times’ Failure To Print His Story On The NSA’s Illegal Electronic Spying In October 2004 ...The Times plainly failed the duty of the free press...to prevent the people from being sent to di...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Other Lesson Of Munich Updated: 2008-05-26 16:02:00 Description: ...Most of the press was nothing but the tool of Chamberlain: it printed what he wanted it to say, did not print what the Government told it not to print, would not print articles or editorials that allegedly might inflame Hitler, in an English repri...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dear Professor Goldman Updated: 2008-05-25 19:47:00 Description: ...one would hope that the continuous scandals over executive misdeeds might cause even right wingers like Roberts, Thomas and Scalia to see the light. One could hope, but one doesn’t expect. ... This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velve...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Courts Should Insist That The Political Branches Do Their Jobs Updated: 2008-05-22 15:04:00 Description: ...Congress enacts laws that most or even all legislators have not read, that Congresspeople and their staffs did not write (the laws were written by the executive or by private lobbyists), that have sometimes been procedurally manipulated in Congres...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Prosecuting Guilty American Leaders For Torture Updated: 2008-05-21 21:31:00 Description: ....The real truth is that torture was ordered from the top and the torture memos were meant to give legal cover to -- were meant to preclude criminal actions against -- the Bushes, Cheneys, Rices, Tenets, Rumsfelds, Ashcrofts, Addingtons, Haynes and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD There Is Little Charity In Wealthy Charitable Hospitals. Updated: 2008-05-19 20:18:00 Description: ... One of the reasons supposedly charitable, supposedly nonprofit hospitals are amassing huge sums and paying CEOs amounts of compensation like three, four or five million per year or even more, is that the hospitals receive tax exemptions because t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Of Mamet And Chicago. Of Obamas And Elections Updated: 2008-05-13 19:08:00 Description: But when Michelle Obama -- who, as an African American, has even more to be angry about than even the Jews of my generation -- uttered this truth by saying that her husband’s candidacy and its reception were the first time she had ever been proud o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hypocrisy Holds High Carnival, Ferraro, Spitzer And Other Recent Travesties Of The Political/Media Complex Updated: 2008-03-31 23:34:00 Description: ...This is a country which perpetrates, condones, and/or ignores the most awful conduct. We are fighting wars and killing people by the gross, but nobody with power gives enough of a damn to put an end to it... it is sometimes claimed the public care...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Alexander Pekelis, Arthur S. Miller, And Today’s Supreme Court Updated: 2008-03-22 17:23:00 Description: ...what we have here is a Supreme Court decision that once again screws over the small man; does so without any basis in Congressional history or purpose, but, rather, contrary to that history and purpose; and screws him over on the basis of unsuppor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Needed Mental Attributes Of A President Updated: 2008-03-12 19:29:00 Description: ...this is the story of Bush. His amiable, good old boy persona reflects a certain kind of interpersonal intelligence, sometimes in high degree. But he is totally lacking in the kind of analytical, logical, thoughtful intelligence needed by a leader,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Names Of The Washington Professional Sports Teams Updated: 2008-03-04 18:05:00 Description: Calling all the Washington sports teams “The Morons? would be superbly representative of the major “industries? of the city. It’s just so perfect, isn’t it... This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnational...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The New York Times, Cable TV, And McCain Updated: 2008-03-01 16:38:00 Description: as for the McCain campaign’s high-flown-language response about serving the country, never violating the public trust and never doing favors for special interests or lobbyists ..this response is just more ... of the political style obnoxiousness of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Clarence Thomas, His Autobiography, And Related Matters Pertaining To America And The Supreme Court. Updated: 2008-02-28 22:32:00 Description: ...This is the angriest book -- by far the angriest book -- that one has ever read. If Thomas were not a Justice, his book would be called a polemic, or a screed. To have written such a book sixteen years into the continuing honor of being a Justice ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Great Louis Terkel. You know him as Studs. Updated: 2008-02-21 22:06:00 Description: ...We live in a time when millions upon millions of us think we don’t count. Only the big money on Wall Street and in big business counts: Only the people who lie, cheat and steal unbelievable sums from scores of millions of small fry count. They, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Two Matters: The Environmental Crisis As An Economic Opportunity, And John Edwards As An Angry Populist Updated: 2008-01-28 16:59:00 Description: Programs to clean up the environment are often resisted because they would be an expense, a very large one. But wouldn’t they simultaneously be a fantastic investment opportunity that would work wonders for employment, incomes, return on capital, t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Richard Levin: President of Yale And King Of Comedy Updated: 2008-01-27 01:15:00 Description: ...Now, with an endowment of 22.5 billion dollars, Yale can spend 80 million dollars per year on student aid though it couldn’t afford this with a puny endowment of 10, or 12 or 14 or 17 billion. Now that is funny. This is the audio version of Dea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Horse Race Rot, Cosmetic Crapola, And The Possible Need For Bloomberg Updated: 2008-01-16 17:15:00 Description: Our entire method of campaigning is insane, and has zero to do with showing the ability or wisdom to govern wisely...we are in need of a third party devoted to doing the right thing in the right way. It seems at least possible that Michael Bloomberg ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Halberstam and History: Part 2 Updated: 2008-01-12 20:09:00 Description: ...The constant, sometimes even continuous, failure of moral courage ...is a hallmark of American life.... There was a continuous failure of moral courage regarding civil rights during the 1940s, 1950s and up until the mid 1960s. A failure of moral c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Halberstam and History: Part 1 Updated: 2008-01-10 23:22:00 Description: ...The ignoring of intelligence, the doctoring of truth, the lies, were one of those things we’ve seen repeatedly from 1950 onwards: the Gulf of Tonkin in Viet Nam, body counts there, denials of escalation there, hiding of secret wars in Southeast ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michael Mukasey And Jewish Conservatism Updated: 2007-12-23 22:47:00 Description: Michael Mukasey.. does not know if waterboarding is torture? The son of a (expletive) cannot bring himself to say that a technique used in a Spanish war against his own people, a technique considered torture for 500 years, is torture?... I cannot gra...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Robert Novaks Prince of Darkness Updated: 2007-12-21 22:44:00 Description: ...A few nights ago, I heard Lou Dobbs say on TV... that Americans do not want to vote for any of the people who currently are running for president. One thinks Dobbs right, and when you read Novak’s book you might also think that, in a system whic...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Arthur Sulzberger And Bill Keller On Bended Knee, Serf-Like Updated: 2007-12-19 21:48:00 Description: ...The Times contributed greatly to getting us into the Iraq disaster in the first place by its credulous reporting on WMDs...and it then helped keep us in that disaster via contributing to Bush’s 2004 victory by kowtowing to Administration claims ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Read 'Em And Weep For Harvard Updated: 2007-12-17 21:38:00 Description: Weep for Harvard. Weep for the academic world. Weep for an America where immoral fraudulence is so de rigueur that reports of it don’t even raise an eyebrow among the powerful, but are instead regarded by them as simply the way everyday business i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gee, Gordon, That's Great Updated: 2007-11-27 17:00:00 Description: The Chronicle of Higher Education's annual Executive Compensation issue is out and boy do those president's make a lot of jack...though not compared to those invaluable football coaches don't you know... This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Longitudinal Lesson Of Paul Krugman’s The Conscience Of A Liberal Updated: 2007-11-07 22:35:00 Description: ...one has seen the transition from a society whose culture favored equality to a society whose culture favors truly vast inequality -- a country where it is regarded as appropriate for CEOs to make 300 and 400 times what the average workers in their...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jack Goldsmith Stands Convicted, part 3 Updated: 2007-10-25 20:58:00 Description: There are.. some problems with Goldsmith’s little mea non culpa. What the CIA had been doing is torture pure and simple, and nothing that Levin said, or George Bush says, can change that fact. You can call the sky a floor if you want, but that wonâ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jack Goldsmith Stands Convicted, part 2 Updated: 2007-10-24 15:53:00 Description: ... to not know that prisoners were being transferred for torture, Goldsmith would have had to be living under a rock during his time at DOD and must have completely failed to read pertinent OLC torture memos ...None of this seemed plausible and now,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jack Goldsmith Stands Convicted, part 1 Updated: 2007-10-23 15:02:00 Description: any lawyer in private practice who tortured law or ignored fact to give support and cover to a client’s gravely illegal conduct would be subject to disbarment, subject to criminal prosecution, and disqualified from being on any respectable law sch...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD More Garbage About Iraq From The Pols And The Media, Plus Stupid Is As Stupid Does Updated: 2007-10-08 22:53:00 Description: It is also obvious that Bush is going to leave to his successor the awful question of what to do with terrorists whom we’ve tortured, held incommunicado, detained indefinitely. These people can’t be convicted in civilian courts...Then too it is a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD With Its Defeat By Appalachian State, Michigan Finally Realizes Its Many, Many Decades Old Desire To Be The Harvard Of The West Updated: 2007-10-05 21:05:00 Description: Michigan has joined Harvard as the victims of what likely are the two greatest upsets in college football history. And now Michigan, as a fellow victim, has finally achieved its many, many decades’ old desire to be the Harvard of the West. This ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tell Me About Michael Bloomberg Updated: 2007-10-05 00:47:00 Description: Yesterday a posting here said we need a new kind of candidate instead of the typical amicable mediocrities who go from door to door or state to state for months or years on end in order to be elected...Today, by freak fortuity, I turned on CSpan II ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD We Desperately Need A New Electoral System, New Methods Of Campaigning, And New Types Of People Running For Office Updated: 2007-10-03 20:24:00 Description: It does not seem likely to me that one can comfortably rely on either of the current two major parties to overthrow the ultimately-disaster-producing national security state. ...Only a new party dedicated to fundamentally different ideas about Americ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Federal Courts Bow Down, Abjectly, To The Secrecy Demands Of The National Security State Updated: 2007-08-30 02:41:00 Description: ...secrecy, and the dishonesty it spawns, do little but create disaster...virtually every societal and economic disaster has gestated in secrecy. The Bay of Pigs, Viet Nam, the bombing of Cambodia, and Laos, the savings and loan debacle, the Enron de...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Federal Judiciary, Aping The German Judges, Allows The Government To Force You To Die When You Are Sick. Updated: 2007-08-28 19:11:00 Description: Can the government stop someone who has no other options from trying to save his or her own life? According to a recent ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the answer is no. This is the audio version of Dean ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Speech and Debate Clause and Honesty Updated: 2007-08-28 15:53:00 Description: ...our entire government runs on bribery and dishonesty (and everyone in politics and the media knows it). This bribery and dishonesty are called campaign contributions.... This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelon...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Access To Experimental Drugs Case. Updated: 2007-08-26 15:28:00 Description: Abigail Burroughs was only nineteen years old when she learned that she had head and neck cancer. Eighteen months of painful chemotherapy and radiation did nothing to stop its growth. Though there were drugs that could save her life, the Food and Dru...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jean Edward Smith And Joe Biden Updated: 2007-08-26 00:07:00 Description: Maybe electing Joe Biden would be a very good thing.... A third party could support Biden as its candidate too if he were to win the Democratic nomination. and... a follow up observation about Jean Edward Smith and stacking the court... This is t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Increasing The Size Of The Supreme Court Updated: 2007-08-06 22:18:00 Description: Should there not have been an increase in the size of the Court if absence of an increase would have resulted in pro slavery or anti union decisions in the midst of the Civil War? Should there not have been an increase if a lack of increase would hav...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Are We Rome? We Are Rome. Updated: 2007-08-04 21:15:00 Description: The Romans were arrogant. They considered themselves the center of the universe. They considered others to be inferior, didn’t have good information on what others thought -- sometimes had exactly wrong information -- and seemed to believe the worl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The High Price of Gasoline Updated: 2007-07-07 16:38:00 Description: ..some think the futures markets have added 20 to 25 dollars to the price of a barrel of oil... this estimated additional amount would account for roughly 30 to 40 percent of the price per barrel... This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Vel...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD New Installment of My Radio Show "What the Media Doesn't Tell You" Updated: 2007-07-05 14:49:00 Description: Salon blogger and author of "A Tragic Legacy", Glenn Greenwald,on the disaster of George Bushss presidency and on how George Bush became the Republican candidate in 2000. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonna...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Times' News Judgement in its Obits of June 7th Updated: 2007-06-26 14:23:00 Description: Jim Clark beat the living shit out of civil rights demonstrators. He viciously abused them physically in other ways. His actions were so terrible that they were instrumental in securing enactment of the Voting Rights Act....This is the fine individua...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Central Points And The Frivolous News Judgments Of The News Media Updated: 2007-06-25 14:06:00 Description: ...what is the effect on the rule of law, and on the entire question of honesty, if a member of the elite like Libby can deliberately lie to a grand jury and then, via pardon, get off scot free. The question is only the more acute because of the othe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Current Intersection Updated: 2007-06-12 00:02:00 Description: If the right-wing wins permanent dominance, the country is for practical purposes finished.... This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, l...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The New Big Lie Updated: 2007-06-05 18:23:00 Description: ...And as our men continue to die in Iraq A war by which Bush has managed our sworn enemies’ number to vastly inflate, The lying, cowardly members of Congress we can be sure Will continue to do nothing effective, but will continue only to verbally ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Demento in the Oval Office Updated: 2007-05-25 23:33:00 Description: ...more people get killed in Iraq every day, while the top cowardly lion who fled from service in Viet Nam pretends he is a brave Lincoln faced with the destruction of this country and refuses therefore to disengage from disaster while denying that d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Article by Ray McGovern Regarding George Tenent Updated: 2007-05-22 14:04:00 Description: "Tenet should not be behind a microphone; he should be behind bars." Velvel appends a "fantastically good article about George Tenet by Ray McGovern, a 27 year veteran of the CIA who for a period wrote the President’s daily brief." This is the a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Let's Hear It For Hillary Updated: 2007-05-20 15:19:00 Description: ...But seeking cover Hillary does pretend That we should support a phony bill to end The war. It enables her to circumvent the important question, One the media collusively will not mention Of a bill immediately cutting off all funds for the war Exc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rupert Murdoch’s Purchase Of The Wall Street Journal Would Be Another Large Wall Street Nail In The Coffin Of Competent America Updated: 2007-05-16 14:38:00 Description: ...the sale of the Journal to Murdoch would be another, and very large, nail in the ever expanding Wall Streetization, and the consequently increasing incompetence, of American journalism. The concern, more specifically, is that the high quality stra...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD More Moral Meltdown In America. Updated: 2007-05-12 18:26:00 Description: The mania in this country for elite credentials makes a joke of the claim of social mobility that has always been so much a part of purported America. It is itself a form of moral meltdown. On MIT, Wolfowitz, Iraq, the candidates... This is the au...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD On Being "Off The Air" Of The Internet For A Period, On Imus, On Blacksburg, And On Bill Moyer's Show About Mass Media Updated: 2007-05-09 17:25:00 Description: With regard to Imus, one does not bleed for him....Blacksburg? -- what can one say? People who have said some of what there is to say have been crucified... For they pointed out the societally inadmissible relationship between what happened at Blacks...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD We Fight And Lose Wars In Which We Cannot, Dare Not, Use Our Major Advantages. Updated: 2007-05-01 14:26:00 Description: ...In Korea the Chinese came in by the hundreds of thousands and, though most Americans don’t know it, Russian pilots were piloting the Mig. There was no telling just how big The war could have become Had we insisted on putting in more men until we...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Remarks On Torture And Secrecy By The Redoubtable Scott Horton Updated: 2007-04-27 19:06:00 Description: "The practice of secret courts. The use of torture to secure confessions. The receipt of secret evidence. The exclusion of the public from proceedings. The offering of evidence in the form of summaries delivered to the judges, without the defendant b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reactionary Federal Appellate Judges, And What Can Be Done About Them. Updated: 2007-04-24 15:16:00 Description: ...From the media one may receive this explanation For why names of judges it does not mention: A court of appeals is a unitary body, So it matters not who speaks, or whether her logic is brilliant or shoddy, Her words are not hers but of the court a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Presidency Has Become A Great Business Opportunity Updated: 2007-04-12 19:03:00 Description: It’s no longer just the desire to be first, Or to live forever in a great sunburst Of historical fame. No. Now its for gain, For riches, for wealth, for dollars by the million That the greedy dance at the presidential cotillion, Since it has now be...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Birmingham And Baghdad; The South In 1963 And The United States in 2007 Updated: 2007-04-04 16:45:00 Description: In 1963, Gene Patterson wrote a now famous column in The Atlanta Constitution in response to the Birmingham Church bombing. ...If you substitute the words"United States" for the word "South", the word "American" for the word "Southerner", the name ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Comment on "If You Want To Know Why We Keep Fighting Wars, Look No Further Than The South" Updated: 2007-04-01 18:51:00 Description: For all its professed Christianity, the South today still has not adopted the philosophy of the Sermon on The Mount in its world outlook.... Sherwood Ross responds to Velvel's previous post... This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD If You Want To Know Why We Keep Fighting Wars, Look No Further Than The South. Updated: 2007-03-30 18:35:00 Description: The most famous Southern writer, Faulkner, said the past is not dead, it is not even past. This would seem true of the Southern attitude towards war. War has regularly been a Southern policy of choice...The South wanted the War of 1812, it wanted war...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Why There Was No Indictment On The Underlying Crime Of Outing Valerie Plame Updated: 2007-03-29 18:26:00 Description: ...The press prates of freedom and liberty But doesn’t grasp that to continue free It cannot allow the President to be A king... Why There Was No Indictment On The Underlying Crime Of Outing Valerie Plame- a poem by Lawrence R. Velvel This is the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Article by A Lieutenant Colonel who served time in Iraq Updated: 2007-03-15 23:46:00 Description: It is not the insurgency, with its roadside bombs, or criminals engaging in mass kidnappings that are defeating the U.S. mission. It is the fact that our civilian leadership has cast victory in Iraq as a stable, democratic government. Building the pa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Long Line- a poem Updated: 2007-03-13 22:25:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Let Us Now Praise Honest Men- a poem Updated: 2007-03-12 21:57:00 Description: It is often said that truth is dead When the guns begin to shoot.... ...Who must shoot and wound and maybe kill Arabs -- who pay the butchers bill; Or bomb a village -- Which we would never, never pillage; And may lose an arm, a leg, or more, Or le...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Couch: Bush is on it and Congress Should be Updated: 2007-02-27 03:31:00 Description: That Bush is utterly devoid of empathy seems plainly true to me. Unlike Lincoln or even Lying Lyndon Johnson, who sent people to their deaths but agonized over it, Bush is thought by the shrinks, and appears to the lay eye, to give not one damn about...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Preternaturally Prolific Posner on Plagiarism- Part 1 Updated: 2007-02-21 18:58:00 Description: ... should it be expected that there would not be outrage if it were to become public property that kids write opinions that judges then try to fool us into thinking are their own? - - opinions which send people to jail or for lethal injection, which...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Preternaturally Prolific Posner on Plagiarism- Part 2 Updated: 2007-02-21 18:54:00 Description: The last six minutes of Velvel's post... This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.msl.edu And to hear (and see!) the histo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lessons From The Philippines Insurrection And Our Overthrow Of Mossadegh, Part II. Updated: 2007-02-01 17:11:00 Description: In Iran, in 1953, we manufactured the overthrow of an Iranian patriot and nationalist manned Mohammed Mossadegh. We had him replaced by a cruel tyrant, the Shah, Mohammed Reza Palevi -- who, among other repressive actions, created the notorious and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lessons From The Philippines Insurrection And Our Overthrow Of Mossadegh, Part I. Updated: 2007-01-31 16:57:00 Description: In overthrowing governments from 1898 ...until today, using overt military force where necessary or secretly sponsored.. coups where desirable, our leaders have always given false reasons for, told lies about, our motivations. We were going to bring ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Urgent Need For Information On The Results Of Medical Care Updated: 2007-01-22 02:30:00 Description: The most crucial necessity in medical care is to begin making the needed information available to patients, referring doctors, medical advisers, the general public... Just as in every other walk of life -- let me repeat that -- just as in every other...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD We May Need A Huge March On Washington To Force Democrats To Put An End To The War ... Updated: 2007-01-17 16:00:00 Description: ..Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that, because he is Commander-in-Chief, Bush has the legal right to ignore a bill cutting off funds. In fact, the claim is viciously ironic. Ever since the earliest days of Viet Nam, we have be...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Comment on Blog Updated: 2007-01-10 20:54:00 Description: Robert S. Dotson, M.D. writes to Velvel to say that his writings have "a tendency to belittle the intellectual capacities of those who live South of the Mason-Dixon line and to paint the entire region with a broad brush which clearly displays a lack ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What The Media Have Not Said Upon Ford's Passing. Updated: 2007-01-05 17:18:00 Description: Ford’s precedent setting pardon of Nixon showed that if you hold a high enough office, and if what you’ve done is bad enough, you can expect to get off scot free in this country. That the truly big time miscreants inevitably get off scot free h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The DeFacto Closing Of The Flagships And Possible Replacements For Them Updated: 2007-01-02 19:01:00 Description: Desiring to join the "educational elite?, state universities are raising tuition and lessening the amount of aid available to those who can’t afford their new and higher prices- an ever growing percentage of our population which now includes not on...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 1898 Redux Updated: 2006-12-31 01:56:00 Description: "There is no terrorist group or groups and no nation or nations that can overcome us if we do not destroy ourselves by endless adventuring around the globe sponsored by Bush and his successors. If we engage in those adventures our people will be ever...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sanity, Competence, And The Latest Washington Crock About Iraq. Updated: 2006-12-19 16:44:00 Description: More on Bush's Sanity and the crock we refer to as The Iraq Study Group Report....... This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Comments Regarding Mary Sullivan, Brandeis, etc. Updated: 2006-12-13 02:39:00 Description: "...larger even than the age discrimination issue --is the question of whether institutional loyalty counts for anything in universities as they try to make themselves more “businesslike.? Two readers respond to the post, "Social Justice at Brand...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pretending That November 7th Never Happened. Also, It Is Now Time to Quite Seriously Ask The Question Of Whether George Bush Is Updated: 2006-12-08 18:11:00 Description: The sensible thing to do in Iraq is to divide the country into three areas corresponding to religious preponderance, give people a few months to move if they want... and then get the hell out of the country. But only a few of the Washingtonites and p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Social Justice At Brandeis Updated: 2006-12-04 01:49:00 Description: Why was Mary Sullivan, the woman's softball coach for 32 years, fired a year before she could begin receiving retirement benefits, and with no medical insurance? Wasn't Brandeis s founded by a people who have long claimed social justice to be their...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What Schembechler Accomplished Updated: 2006-12-01 21:23:00 Description: When Schembechler became Michigan’s coach in 1969, its glory years under Fielding Yost and Fritz Crisler were long gone. The 107,501-seat Michigan Stadium had seldom been filled in recent seasons, and the Michigan band was finding fewer occasions t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Conventional Wisdom And Bad People In Washington Updated: 2006-11-29 18:49:00 Description: Without the threat of exposure and punishment, potential evildoers have no reason not to commit evil. This is how conservatives feel about street thugs and Mafiosi; why is it any less true of thugs in suits who control armies? ... If we want a decent...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Let Us Now Throw Rumsfeld Under The Bus Updated: 2006-11-20 23:40:00 Description: "The Democrats should never forget the kind of person Bush really is... an ignorant bully, not a gentle fellow of sweet reason. If he gets a chance, he will once again stomp on the Democrats� heads, and call them (and lots of the rest of us) t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Honesty, History, And A College Of History And Law Updated: 2006-11-13 23:09:00 Description: "The worst form of cheating in American democracy today is intellectual dishonesty. The conversation in our democracy is dominated by disingenuousness. Candidates and partisan commentators strike poses of outrage that they don’t really feel, take p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mock Letters To Bush, Pretend Speeches For Bush, And Reactionary Judges Updated: 2006-11-09 16:53:00 Description: Does Ben Stein not understand that Bush is an obstinate (unintelligent) man whose views and feet are set in concrete, a man who is not going to back off his obdurate views even when confronted with powerful facts and ideas.... and on another note... ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reposting A Blog On An American Third Party Part 1 Updated: 2006-10-27 17:11:00 Description: It is now necessary to create a new political party, for the prevailing two parties suffer from a disease that could be called corrupt sclerosis of the intellectual and financial arteries. For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, ple...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reposting A Blog On An American Third Party Part 2 Updated: 2006-10-27 17:02:00 Description: This is Part 2 of the blog "Reposting a Blog on an American Third Party"... It is now necessary to create a new political party, for the prevailing two parties suffer from a disease that could be called corrupt sclerosis of the intellectual and fin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Poem- "The Decider" Updated: 2006-10-23 19:35:00 Description: A Dr. Seuss style ode to Mr. Bush.... the great "Decider". This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information of The Massachusetts School of Law, please log on to www.msl.edu and to h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Conference "On Presidential Power In America" Updated: 2006-10-04 02:47:00 Description: Abetted by a sniveling Congress and a fearful, incompetent mass media, the Presidency has gotten dangerously close to all powerful, precisely what the founders feared in an Executive. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog www...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bob Herbert's Recent Truths And Their Consequences Updated: 2006-09-28 15:12:00 Description: The real reason that Bush, Cheney and the other pretexters want there to be retroactive immunity for the federal crime of torture is that the higher-ups are guilty of this felony, are guilty of a crime punishable by up to life imprisonment or executi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Pretexter Stain- Let History Know You Want To Be Included Out Updated: 2006-09-26 19:48:00 Description: When is an honestly held belief so stupid, so preposterous,that it is the defacto equivalent of a pretext? The word "liar" and the word "president" have become practically equivalent. Let your children and history know that you do not support this...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eric Lomax’s “The Railway Man? And Today’s America Updated: 2006-09-09 17:18:00 Description: The real traitors are Bush and his allies, who have abandoned American ideals and are turning this country into one that imitates the barbarism of our enemies of WW II, Germany and Japan. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Professor X And The Conservative Judges Of Reagan And The Two Bushes Updated: 2006-08-31 04:51:00 Description: Why did the New York Times publish an op ed piece that was not only a vicious attack on Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, it was also deeply wrong? Of the courts, bias, and a system that is rife with hypocrisy... This is the audio version of Dean Lawrenc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Updates On The IBM Pension Case, Military Cooperation Between The U.S. And Israel, And Bush's Possible Plans Regarding Iran Updated: 2006-08-23 21:22:00 Description: The pensions desperately needed and relied on by average workers have been cut dramatically so that highly paid executives can make millions more. Has the US and Israel succeeded in making Hezbollah stronger than ever? And could the destruction in L...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Appended Speech From a Visitor To Israel Updated: 2006-08-18 16:22:00 Description: Readers of this blog who think Israel “done bad? in the war or is the Nazified juggernaut of the Middle East or who for other reasons favor Lebanon, Hezbollah, Hamas things you will not wish to hear, will not want to know, and will automatically re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Seventh Circuit's Abominable Decision In The IBM Pension Plan Case Updated: 2006-08-17 16:03:00 Description: The Senate has shown itself incapable of stopping the right wing takover of the judiciary. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information of The Massachusetts School of Law, please ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Iran. Joe I (It's All About Me) Lieberman Updated: 2006-08-16 19:57:00 Description: More on Iran and nukes... and...Lieberman obviously thinks it crucial that the Senate have a leading Democrat, like him, who will help Bush and Cheney continue to fight their misbegotten war in Iraq... This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. V...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ramifications Of The "Debate" Between Alan Dershowtiz And James Zogby Updated: 2006-08-15 14:17:00 Description: What do you do when an enemy uses the population as human shields? And... is the Lebanese government any different from The Taliban? This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com for more informatio...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Overthrowing Mossadegh; Iranian Hatred For The U.S.; And The Crisis In Lebanon Updated: 2006-08-14 13:26:00 Description: Shouldn't we deal with Iran now- before it is nuclear armed? This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com To learn more about The Massachusetts School of Law please log on to www.msl.edu and to hea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Airheads and Blockheads Updated: 2006-08-09 02:34:00 Description: We now know for certain that Hezbollah is intentionally locating itself near UN positions. Why than hasn't Kofi Annan taken any action? This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com for more informatio...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Correspondence from Aaron Sharif and Joe McCain(?) Updated: 2006-08-02 14:09:00 Description: As I write this I hear guns - Aaron Sharif, The Jews will not go quietly again- Joe McCain...two searing letters, one from an Israeli citizen, one purported to be written by Senator John McCains' brother, Joe. This is the audio version of Dean Lawr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The UN Observers Updated: 2006-07-31 16:20:00 Description: Why haven't the most quintessentially simple, even obvious questions been asked regarding the death of the UN observers in Lebanon? This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The United States, Israel and Lebanon Updated: 2006-07-28 14:49:00 Description: Is it possible that Bush wants the fighting in Lebanon to continue? One should not underestimate Bush's militarism.... and stupidity. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's Blog www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com for more information...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The One Percent Doctrine Updated: 2006-07-22 15:21:00 Description: Does the Bush Administration's "one percent doctrine" give them carte blanche to act purely out of suspicion and emotion? Does it eschew those traditional forms of diplomacy - gathering and analyzing evidence? This is the audio version of Dean Law...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Women And The American Dream Updated: 2006-07-20 23:19:00 Description: Is "the American Dream' a fraud? This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R Velvel's Blog www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com. To learn more about the Massachusetts School of Law, please visit www.msl.edu and to hear (and see!) the history of MSL ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stephen Kinzer, The Philippines Insurrection, And America Today Updated: 2006-07-18 16:04:00 Description: Is history nothing but "agreed upon lies"? Every American who is concerned about the current war and our place in the world should read Stephen Kinzer's "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii To Iraq" - more than once. This is ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD George Bush’s Attempt To Silence The New York Times Updated: 2006-07-10 18:04:00 Description: Imagine the clandestine activities we would know nothing about if the Government had gotten its wish to keep its actions secret. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's Blog www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com for more information on T...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Book Review By Joanna Daneman Updated: 2006-07-10 14:54:00 Description: "...brilliant analysis", "...makes me think", "...always interesting", just a few of the comments from prolific Amazon reviewer Joanna Daneman in her review of Dean Velvel's book, "Blogs from the Liberal Standpoint" This is the audio version of De...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Real Reason We Invaded Iraq, June 20, 2006 Updated: 2006-06-28 16:30:00 Description: If Bush's said mission in history is to protect America from terrorists, how does he explain his lack of commitment in Afghanistan? This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com for more information o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD E-Mail Correspondence With Captain Byron King Of The United States Navy Reserve June 19, 2006 Updated: 2006-06-21 03:08:00 Description: A Captain in the US Navy Reserves has a powerful response to Dean Velvel's post entitled "Killing Zarqawi's Daughter" This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com entitled "E-Mail Correspondence With...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD For Purely Political Reasons There Almost Surely Will Be No Major Release Of Prisoners Held At Gitmo And Other Prisons Updated: 2006-06-21 02:29:00 Description: A major release of prisoners from Gitmo would be an electoral disaster for the Republicans and this Administration, for whom politics trumps all. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's Blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com entitle...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The World’s Schoolyard Bully Updated: 2006-06-20 02:48:00 Description: On average the US has fought a major war every 15 years since 1945. Imagine how many wars we would fight if we were a war-loving people instead of a peace-loving one. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R Velvel's blog, Velvel on National Aff...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Killing Zarqawi’s Daughter Updated: 2006-06-16 16:34:00 Description: The absence of any comment about the small child killed with Zarqawi speaks volumes about what the country has become. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog Velvel on National Affairs entitled Killing Zarqawi’s Daughter F...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Harvard and Its Presidents Updated: 2006-06-15 18:55:00 Description: Of Plagiarism, Harvard and honesty at "America's greatest academic institution" This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog http://velvelonnationalaffairs.com entitled "Harvard And Its Presidents" For more information on the Mas...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Third Party And The Internet"Pipes" Providers' Planned Strike Against Political Freedom. June 2nd 2006 Updated: 2006-06-14 14:49:00 Description: Peggy Noonan and a third Party? And what about internet neutrality? This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, velvelonnationalaffairs.com, entitled "A Third Party And The Internet"Pipes" Providers' Planned Strike Against Poli...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Whores for President "A Modest Proposal" To Cure This Updated: 2006-06-13 15:19:00 Description: This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, "Velvel on National Affairs", entitled "Whores for President 'A Modest Proposal' To Cure This- May 31, 2006"...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Of Oscar and LeBron Updated: 2006-06-13 14:32:00 Description: This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, "Velvel on National Affairs" entitled "of Oscar and LeBron"...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Regarding Joseph Ellis’ Column On The "Place [of] 9/11 In American History". Updated: 2006-06-09 19:55:00 Description: This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, Velvelonnationalaffairs.com from January 31st, 2006, entitled Re: Joseph Ellis’ Column On The "Place [of] 9/11 In American History....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD February 14, 2006 Updated: 2006-06-06 12:28:00 Description: The February 14, 2006 blog of Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD February 15, 2006 blog Updated: 2006-06-02 16:08:00 Description: The February 15, 2006 blog of Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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