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Subject: A Confederacy of Fools. Author unknown. "The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy...

WILKES-BARRE — Lecturing attorneys from the bench in a 2005 hearing, Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Toole reminded them of the “ethical duty” judges and lawyers have to recuse themselves in cases where they have conflicts of interest. But Judge Toole didn’t reveal that he had his own possible conflict. He had a financial relationship with one of the attorneys appearing before him that day. After the hearing, he would rule in that attorney’s favor, court documents show. It was one of three 2005 cases involving the judge and the attorney, John D. Nardone. Judge Toole declined to comment on...