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Kloppenburg Recount Chances Are Slim To None, And Slim Just Left Town
on April 19, 2011
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The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) has completed its inquiry into the Waukesha County vote count, which put David Prosser into the lead by 7316 votes, and has found the vote count to be accurate, with only a handful of questioned votes.As reported by The Milwaukee...
Robert Paul, move!
on April 19, 2011
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KathleenApparently one of Ron Paul's other sons is considering running for the Senate in Texas. While I really have enjoyed Rand Paul's contributions to our political discourse, Robert Paul should not run in Texas. Since I first looked at the Senate race in Texas, it...
The Making of a MoveOn.org Video
on April 19, 2011
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About 30 people in Providence, RI protested outside a Bank of America branch as part of MoveOn.org's Tax Day: Make Them Pay national protest.The video below shows two of the protesters accompanied by someone taking video entering the bank to present a "tax bill" to BofA. I...
“Let me answer the questions without challenge or you’ll never get another interview and I’ll talk to your boss, all right?”
on April 19, 2011
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Obama gave an interview to a local reporter in Texas (via NiceDeb). The interview struck me as fairly ordinary, although the reporter gently tested Obama on a couple of the answers. There was nothing in the interview which struck me as disrespectful or anything other...
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Your Morning Stuxnet News
on April 19, 2011
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We haven't heard much about Stuxnet recently, but there has been plenty of speculation that Stuxnet was only a temporary setback for the Iranian nuclear program. The Iranians have bragged that they have even more advanced centrifuges at work now.But this outburst by an Iranian...
Gov’t Motors Energy Breakthrough – Chevy Volt Also Generates Thermal Energy
on April 18, 2011
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The Chevy Volt, is not, shall we say, a hot seller. But it does represent a step forward in energy technology as it doubles as both an electric car and a barbecue grill (via Lakeshore Laments):A hybrid electric Chevrolet Volt believed to have sparked an...
The Only Reason I’m Posting This
on April 18, 2011
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is that the real news is too depressing, which probably is why a reader sent this to me. Nothing like Cowboy Monkey Rodeo to bring a smile to your* face:* It probably would be more correct to say "a smile to one's face." I wanted...
“Vacation” day
on April 18, 2011
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KathleenI swear I can explain my absence from Sundays posting cycle. Well, sort of -- kind of.. I mean, I can't tell too much...
WikiLeaks Gives Bashar al-Assad A Gift
on April 18, 2011
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WikiLeaks just released classified U.S. diplomatic cables indicating that since the second term of George Bush and continuing at least into part of the Obama term, the U.S. has provided funding to opposition groups in Syria. As reported by The Washington Post:The State Department has...
It’s Now Patriotic to Call Paul Krugman a !@%$#%@ Hypocrite
on April 18, 2011
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For almost the entire two and one-half years I've been blogging I've had to put up with Paul Krugman accusing Republicans, conservatives and Tea Party supporters of inciting violence through heated rhetoric over policy differences, particularly Obamacare.I've even started a tag for Paul Krugman, which prior...
Fortunately We Have Not Yet Hit $4 per Gallon Gas
on April 17, 2011
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...(Whitney Point, NY, 4-17-2011)And we we should give further thanks that the current President of the United States understands the forces which come together in what we sometimes call "markets." Because if we had as President someone less highly credentialed, less schooled in economic theory,...
Some of the bravest people
on April 17, 2011
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are black Tea Party supporters, who must endure taunts like this:(h/t Breitbart)--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...
Fight Like A Girl
on April 17, 2011
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In using that term, Sarah Palin issued a political call to action directed at the men who rule the Republican Party:"We didn’t elect you just to rearrange the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic," Palin said during a rally in front of the Wisconsin statehouse in...
Fogel Family Murderers Captured
on April 17, 2011
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Israeli has arrested two teenage Palestininians from a village near where the Fogel family lived for the murder of the five Fogel family members, including three children. As reported by the Jersusalem Post (h/t Israel Matzav):Two Palestinian youths from the village of Awarta were arrested in...
Public Employee Union Dance-a-Thon Practice In Madison
on April 16, 2011
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On display in Madison, Wisconsin today, as related to me by reader Jim, who sent this photo:"This guy was next to me screaming for two hours. Here he is showing civility and tolerance to Sarah Palin."What can I say, I look for the good in...
