The justices let stand a lower court’s rejection of the group’s challenge to the National Football League team’s federal trademarks on its name.The case had more symbolic importance than practical. A victory by the Indians in their challenge wouldn’t have forced the Redskins to change the nickname, though the team could have lost its exclusive rights.
Federal law bars trademarks that “may disparage” people. The issue in the appeal turned on a legal doctrine known as laches, which in some contexts bars lawsuits by people who weren’t vigilant in asserting their rights.
The Indians contend that laches doesn’t apply to efforts to cancel a federal trademark. A federal appeals court in Washington disagreed and threw out the lawsuit.
Other professional sports teams with Native American names
and imagery include the Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves baseball teams and the Kansas City Chiefs football team. College sports teams include the Florida State Seminoles and the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux.
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The American Farm Bureau says that because prices have come down on certain foods, including turkey and milk, Thanksgiving dinner should be 4% cheaper than last year.
In 2009, the average cost for a Thanksgiving dinner that feeds ten is $42.91, or about $4.29 a person. Last year, the average meal for ten was $44.61, $1.70 more expensive.
Detail for the most recent poll is here.
The $300 million Medicaid fix that Sen. Mary Landrieu got inserted into the Senate healthcare bill wasn’t the first “Louisiana Purchase” of the healthcare debate.
Before Rep. Joseph Cao (La.) cast the lone Republican vote for the healthcare bill in the House, he secured assurances from President Barack Obama to work on Medicaid funding, loan forgiveness and issues related to two of his local hospitals.
The best-known deal involved Reps. Dennis Cardoza and Jim Costa, two Blue Dog Democrats from the Golden State who secured funding for a medical school for California’s Central Valley.
The report mentions other last-second trade-offs and promises. Wavering legislators, fearful that a vote could cost them back home, hold out until leadership promises them a little sweetener.
But aren’t these “side deals” really bribes? Of course they are but probably none bigger than the Mary Landrieu $300 million deal.
Polls show only 38% of Americans favor ObamaCare but many politicians don’t care. Bribery must turn the ears of politicians deaf.
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Bill Moyers, former White House Press Secretary for Lyndon Johnson, has become well known for his many one-sided political stories that appeared on his program on Public Television.
The Democrats' polling must be showing something similar. Otherwise, House members wouldn't have competed for permission to vote against it, Senators wouldn't have demanded nine-figure payoffs to vote for it, and Harry Reid wouldn't have held the vote on a Saturday night (as Nancy Pelosi did with the House vote).
The recent suggestions of more limited mammograms and pap smears will further reduce the number of voters in favor of ObamaCare and further push Senate Democrat leaders to cram this bill through by any means possible.
Reducing the number of these critical tests will save money and will be a major step to health care rationing.
Poll data is here.
For nearly 20 years, from Al Gore to President Obama, they have been intoning to us that 'the science is settled'. But as ever more scientists from outside the IPCC's self- selected 'magic circle' now maintain, it has never been more obvious that this simply isn't true.
No one has put this better than Professor Lindzen, one of the world's leading climatologists, when he wrote: 'Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st-century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections contemplated a roll-back of the industrial age.'
The climate controversy was never about stopping nature. It was about taxing and control.
Many scientists in the U.S. have been going along with the climate change theory in order to keep their grant money flowing. By going against the ‘warmists’ their grand money would suddenly dry up.
Ask a global warming believer why Al Gore will not debate the so-called ‘warming science’ in his books and movie. Gore won’t. He can’t.
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As experts debate the potential speed of the US recovery, one figure looms large but is often overlooked: nearly 1 in 5 Americans is either out of work or under-employed.
According to the government's broadest measure of unemployment, some 17.5 percent are either without a job entirely or underemployed. The so-called U-6 number is at the highest rate since becoming an official labor statistic in 1994.
So much for the stimulus creating jobs.
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The auction giant said it would compensate sellers for their losses. In the past eBay has compensated sellers by extending their auction listings at no additional cost - there is never a cash compensation to sellers as a result of a glitch on eBay.
By the way, in case you wondered why you or your friends are having a more difficult time getting bids on your eBay auctions, it may be because eBay has 200,000,000 live listings which is 33 percent more than at this time one year ago.
Also, over the past year, eBay has rolled out a special ‘on-ramp’ for large retailers, manufacturers and liquidators called Large Merchant Services APIs flooding eBay with new auctions.
More here.
Rhode Island's top Roman Catholic leader has asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy (pictured) to stop taking Communion over his support for abortion rights.
Kennedy, a Democrat, is the son of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy and a scion of the most prominent Catholic family in modern U.S. politics.
What about other Catholic lawmakers who support abortion rights?
Does the abortion question very from one diocese to another? If not, was Patrick Kennedy’s father, Sen. Ted Kennedy also asked to refrain from taking communion?
Ted Kennedy also supported abortion rights as do most Democrats in Washington, so what about John Kerry, Chris Dodd and other pro-abortion lawmakers in Washington?
Another question: why did Patrick Kennedy wait for nearly three years before criticizing his Bishop about the Communion ban?
It is interesting that this exchange was comes on the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Patrick Kennedy's uncle, John F. Kennedy, the nation's first Catholic president
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This was a winner in a recent cartoon caption contest by Indianapolis Star cartoonist Gary Varvel.
Mr. Alumnus M.L. "Red" Cashion (upper photo) is the current NFL Trainer of Referees.
It wasn’t long until Red’s “First Dowwwnnn!” call became well-known to fans and players alike.
A police officer testified that the 15-year-old girl accused of killing her 9-year-old neighbor confessed to the crime, saying that she did it so she would "know what it felt like to kill someone."
There's big news for climate change students.
A hacker has gotten into the computers at Hadley CRU, Britain's largest climate research institute and a proponent of global warming, and seems to have uncovered evidence of substantial fraud in reporting the "evidence" on global warming; the unlawful destruction of records to cover up this fraud, conspiracy, and deceit in the entire operation.
While hacking into the institute's records is inappropriate if not illegal, the activities disclosed appear illegal and damaging to science and the economies of the world.
Link here and here.
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