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I received this email this morning:
Hey,
Thought you might be interested in knowing (and letting others know through your blog or otherwise) about a Texas Freedom Network speaker event featuring Chris Mooney, the author of ��The Republican War on Science.�� You can find more information about TFN and the event at http://www.tfn.org/faithandfreedom/houston/.
The event will be held [...]

Tags: National Politics

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Taiwan’s opposition lawmakers pull the hair of ruling Democratic Progressive Party Deputy Wang Shu-hui after she attempted to eat a proposal on opening direct transport links with China in Taipei on Tuesday, May 30 2006.
OK. What I found curious is the one guy is smiling while pulling her hair. Let me tell ya [...]

Tags: Humor, Shock and Awe, Taiwan, Wang-Shu-hui

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Michael Steele is running for the US Senate in Maryland. He’s Republican. And, he’s black. That’s not a typically good thing to be seeking political office in Maryland. They tend to elect white Democrats historically. However, what ANY candidate of any race, party affiliation, gender, or any potential victim of [...]

Tags: 2006 US Senate Races, bob-novak, michael-steel

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Every now and then I get something of value on the internet.  In a discusssion about the federal military funeral protest ban, Eugene Volokh asks for a reasonable way of alerting AP about errors in its stories.  A commenter immediately replied with:
http://www.ap.org/pages/about/faq.html#1
What a valuable tool.  Maybe when AP realizes more people read the internet than [...]

Tags: The Media

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National Review Online created a Top 50 conservative pop songs of all time. Here’s a summary of the list:

��Won��t Get Fooled Again,�� by The Who
��Taxman,�� by The Beatles
��Sympathy for the Devil,�� by The Rolling Stones
��Sweet Home Alabama,�� by Lynyrd Skynyrd
��Wouldn��t It Be Nice,�� by The Beach Boys
��Gloria,�� by U2.
��Revolution,�� by The Beatles.
��Bodies,�� by The [...]

Tags: michelle malkin, MTV, NRO, Opinions, Steve-Jobs, VH1

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Furious black lawmakers, rallying behind Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.), were pulled back from the brink of open revolt against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in an emergency meeting with her Wednesday evening.
The meeting with a handful of CBC members was called after Pelosi wrote the embattled lawmaker, who is at the center of a [...]

Tags: Ethics

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A while back I did a piece on Fred Phelps protesting military funerals. I came to the conclusion then that it was pretty ironic that states were impeding their freedom of speech and no one really cared. What they were doing was truly that despicable. Since that post, several states, including my [...]

Tags: fred-phelps, god-hates-fags, Opinions, thank-god-for-dead-soldiers, westboro

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House Speaker Dennis Hastert demanded Wednesday that the FBI surrender documents it seized and remove agents involved in the weekend raid of Rep. William Jefferson��s office, under what lawmakers of both parties said were unconstitutional circumstances.
��We think those materials ought to be returned,�� Hastert said, adding that the FBI agents involved ��ought to be frozen [...]

Tags: Opinions

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The Tax Foundation recently released their tax rates per state for 2006.  This is how it panned out with it’s political results from 2004:

Local and State Taxes Per Capita, by State 2006

State
State & Local Taxes, Per Capita

D.C.
$8,092

Connecticut
$6,018

New York
$5,734

New Jersey
$5,234

Massachusetts
$5,047

Maryland
$4,996

Minnesota
$4,930

Maine
$4,719

Rhode Island
$4,629

Hawaii
$4,496

California
$4,451

Illinois
$4,335

Washington
$4,334

Ohio
$4,332

Nebraska
$4,294 [...]

Tags: US Regional Politics

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William Jefferson is just tickled pink that some lawmakers are distracting his actions by crying foul over the FBI searching Jefferson’s office. I’m no lawyer, I don’t even play one on tv, so I read a lawyer’s take on it. Particularly, I read Orin Kerr’s take on it.
Orin does not come to a [...]

Tags: culture of corruption, Ethics, fbi, nancy pelosi, The Legal Process, william jefferson

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