@XproblemDrinker My belief would be that the pending changes in the political personnel would not affect fuel prices that way. On the global market oil has been coming down in price but we need to remember all the oil that was in ships traversing the globe, was bought weeks ago at higher prices.
I’ve always liked Stephen Miller. He’s principled, smart, and fearless. I didn’t know this about him.
In spring 2006, three Duke lacrosse players—David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann—were accused of raping Crystal Mangum at a team party.
Within days the campus verdict was in. The season was canceled. The coach was forced out. Their faces were on every cable channel.
88 Duke professors signed a full-page ad thanking protesters for not waiting for the facts and declaring the case exposed “racism and sexism” no matter what a court decided. The school suspended the players.
Durham DA Mike Nifong, a Democrat fighting a tough primary, went on TV promising convictions. Saying “wait for the evidence” got you called racist.
Except for one student. He wasn’t on the team. He wasn’t a friend of the accused. He was just a 20-year-old junior (later senior) who kept writing in the student paper that in America you’re innocent until proven guilty. Then he did something no other Duke student did: he went on The O’Reilly Factor and Nancy Grace—not as a lawyer or pundit, but as a student—telling millions his own university had rushed to judgment.
Most of campus called him racist. The News & Observer called him the “lonely voice insisting that the players were innocent.” He stayed that voice for a year.
Then the case collapsed. DNA cleared all three. Mangum’s story kept changing. The photo lineup was rigged.
Worst of all, Nifong conspired with the DNA lab to hide the exculpatory results.
On April 11, 2007, North Carolina AG Roy Cooper dropped every charge and declared Evans, Finnerty, and Seligmann “innocent”—victims of a “tragic rush to accuse.” Nifong resigned, was disbarred, and was briefly jailed. Years later Mangum admitted she lied.
The student who refused to back down, who was called racist for defending three fellow students while 88 of his own professors had already convicted them in print, who went on national TV at 20 to stand for the presumption of innocence?
His name was Stephen Miller.
#StephenMiller #DukeLacrosse
@martinvars You made some solid points but your last paragraph is something hilarious. You want the government, think about that, you want the government to lower prices. Totally interventionist.
It seems you're only regret is that Jimmy Carter was not on the ballot.