THINK PROGRESS – It’s a great story: the virtually unknown, 15th seeded Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), has made it to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament. But there’s something you might not know about FGCU: its economics department is, as a consequence of grants from Randian businessman John Allison and the Charles G. Koch Foundation, a haven for Ayn-Rand Style thinking:

At Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, every student who majors in economics and finance gets a copy of Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged…FGCU now has a core group of a half dozen economists whose research supports the ideas of free-market capitalism, still an unpopular subject in most faculty lounges. They teach this material to more than 250 economics and finance students (one class is titled “The Moral Foundations of Capitalism”), organize lectures by leading thinkers, publish their research in well-respected journals and hold influential positions in groups that promote free markets.

[ROFLMAO ..they say this like it’s a bad thing… /SD]

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Many people were wondering what approach Mark O’Mara would take now that Operation Q-Beam has been successful.    While this is not a formal retort to the court, the GZ Defense Team has posted the following notification as a reply to The State’s Response:

The STATE’S RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE FOR DISCOVERY VIOLATIONS, while pointed, has little substance that addresses the very serious motion we have before the Court.

From a legal perspective, the Zimmerman case is about whether George Zimmerman acted in self-defense, but we understand that the case has also become important to the national conversation about race relations, about gun control, and about “Stand Your Ground” laws. Although the Court will not be able to resolve these larger issues, we as the defense team, have chosen to engage in the national conversation in a responsible and respectful way. (more…)

The BACKSTORY HERE. (more…)

Yesterday President Obama stood arm in arm with the survivors of the Benghazi Massacre and led the nation in a promise that they shall never be forgotten.

Very deliberately President Obama said “speeches are not enough”, he went on to talk about the tears, anguish and pain felt by those family members of the fallen Benghazi heroes, and how they shall never be forgotten by the nation they served.

It was quite moving….

Wait, huh…. what’s that?…. Ooooh, Newtown people….  huh?  wha.. Sandy Hook…

Whoops, my bad.

Nevermind.

In the face of adversity….

Hello @andersoncooper Every day on @AC360 U say "Keeping them Honest" –I agree 100%– Are self-portraits "Honest"? pic.twitter.com/YwJ4Ah5IWi

— Robert Zimmerman Jr. (@rzimmermanjr) March 29, 2013

Hence, this is how you confront the opposition. Allow them to advance into the false field of their accusations – then confront them head on with sunlight and truthful disposition.

This is the part that none of them appeared willing to do, but it is the only manner and method of actually confronting the core issue behind the persecution without alluding to it and nibbling around the edges….. (more…)

update:  Here’s the Full response motion pdf file

If you read the Orlando Sentinel article written by Rene Stutzman today, maybe you will be able to witness the leverage over O’Mara we have oft talked of, and described as being dangerous to George Zimmerman’s defense.

George Zimmerman and his immediate circle of influence were/are well aware of the risk O’Mara has presented.   They know he lied – yet they stuck with him.   Perhaps because they felt sorry for him, or perhaps because they simply had no other option.  Regardless, it is now abundantly clear, the full extent of the compromise.   Perhaps today, they are more understanding…. 

Note not only how Bernie De La Rionda is talking – but note also what references he is talking to. Specifically calling back into light the Financial Affidavit with a well placed rhetorical question to O’Mara: …”do you really want to go there?”… (more…)

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I have not even watched the entire thing all the way through yet…. My blood boils. I must absorb the Brutus O’Mara in small doses.

More later…..

In a staggering, but not unexpected, display of judicial bias Judge Nelson has ruled against George Zimmerman’s defense,… again.    Denying George Zimmerman the right to depose Trayvon Martin family attorney, Benjamin Crump, about his involvement with all issues surrounding Witness #8, “DeeDee”: (more…)

HatTip Tara – This is an update to the Detroit Protest that Jesse Jackson had called for.  Original story here

DETROIT – Detroiters are the victims of Jesse Jackson’s last – and worst – shakedown.  Unlike his past antics – allegedly designed to help the little guy in his struggle against The Man – this one is about Jackson trying to prove his relevance at a time when he has become irrelevant. Many people – OK, me – believe the tears Jackson shed in Chicago when Barack Obama won the presidency were not tears of joy – but rather tears of jealousy that the first black president was not him. Obama’s elevation rendered Jesse irrelevant.  The Reverend Un-necessary.

Money for the con game was gone. Al Sharpton knew it – and quickly got a gig on MSNBC (hosting a pathetic show -but it paid the bills). But Jackson was stuck.

Reverend Jackson needed a new shakedown.  […]   Now along comes the opportunity of a lifetime: a broken Detroit! A white, millionaire governor stealing Detroit from its people!  He swept into the city and promised mass civil disobedience.  It was like old times again!

But just 35 people showed up to protest Monday, the first day of the Emergency Manager. (continue reading)