Moonage Political Webdream

This is so cute I had to steal it from LGF:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said the study confirms that nuclear bunker busters cannot dig deep enough to prevent large casualties.
The bottom line is that it would result in the deaths of up to a million people or more if used in densely populated areas, she [...]

Tags: National Politics

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Two bills just passed Congress:
HR 241: Providing for the adoption of the resolution (H. Res. 240) amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to reinstate certain provisions of the rules relating to procedures of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to the form in which those provisions existed at the close of the [...]

Tags: National Politics

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Todd Zywicki pointed me to Patrick Ruffin, who makes the hypothesis:
The conventional wisdom seems to be congealing in an anti-Rudy direction, and not willing to automatically cast a jaundiced eye on actual polls of said conservative primary voters, I’d like to run a test for the solidly conservative blog activists who will be instrumental in [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race

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Heads up to Little Green Footballs for this pointer.  Here’s Ted Kennedy’s recent release commemorating the anniversary of the Abu Ghraib scandal ( reprinted without permission, the highlights are mine ):
April 26, 2005

STATEMENT BY SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY ON ANNIVERSARY OF ABU GHRAIB SCANDAL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Laura Capps/Melissa Wagoner (202) 224-2633
The sad [...]

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Here we go again.
"I think what’s good about the movie is that it deals with 9/11 in such a subtle, open, open way that I think it allows it to be more complicated than just ‘Oh, look at these poor New Yorkers and how hard it was for them,’ because I think America has done [...]

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President Bush is offering to make closed military bases available for new oil
refineries and will ask Congress to provide a “risk insurance” to the nuclear
industry against regulatory delays to spur construction of new nuclear power
plants, senior administration officials said Tuesday.
The officials,
who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the president will outline his
proposals in a [...]

Tags: Government, Legislative Process, National Politics, Opinions, Political Correctness

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"Rita Preckshot went to a peace rally, and a fight broke out."

I love that line so much, I had to use it for the title.  The article’s a fun read too.
But, they make it sound like this is an unusual event.  Fact is, activists have a long history of violence.  From environmentalists trying to save [...]

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I have lambasted the abuse of 527’s by political partisans.  Especially George Soros.  I have advocated that one of the new Congress’s first real actions should be eliminating 527’s.  Well guess what.  Senator John McCain is apparently trying to make up with yours truly ( for teaming up with Ted Kennedy ), and has proposed [...]

Tags: National Politics

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I have commented a couple of times in the past on Bankruptcy reform.  In large part I support it.  I’m one of those people that likes to see how a policy is enforced before I comment a whole lot on it.  However, Todd Zywicki at Volokh has taken stabs at it.  The crux of the [...]

Tags: Fed Policy

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Since this is a public document, and brief, I’m going to just copy the whole thing here:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 2005WWW.USDOJ.GOV

CRM(202) 514-2008TDD (202) 514-1888

POLITICAL FUNDRAISER DAVID ROSEN INDICTED FOR CAUSING FALSE FILINGS WITH FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray announced today the unsealing of a four-count indictment charging David [...]

Tags: National Politics

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