It just keeps getting worse. Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews. The incident – which gained national attention [...]
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Looks like a good class ‘helper‘. Maybe add in a little current as well?
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Has to be. Probably near the clause that stipulates funding PBS as an enumerated power. The Obama administration has begun serious talks about how it can change compensation practices across the financial-services industry, including at companies that did not receive federal bailout money, according to people familiar with the matter. The initiative, which is in [...]
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The History Channel had a program on this weekend (an older repeat, but new to me) focusing on the 2006 Christie auction of props from the Star Trek universe. The auction was projected to bring in around $3 million dollars, but ended up doing $7+ million with some rather eye-popping final prices on certain items. [...]
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I submit without comment. I’m just not up to it today… In Gov. Deval Patrick’s Massachusetts, if you’re on the dole, you may be eligible to get a free car. So much for the budget Armageddon they keep talking about at the State House. Let the taxpayers worry about those billion-dollar deficits. If you’re on [...]
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Via Hot Air »House gets unusual raise. The House wants to increase Members’ office budgets next fiscal year by almost 15 percent, partly because 2010 is an election year and lawmakers anticipate a surge in franked mail. In a recently released budget request, the House Chief Administrative Officer asked appropriators to raise the Members’ Representational [...]
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Awesome, simply awesome… An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker. . . . Sometimes I’m forced to question my own atheism. At least at moments when God appears to be a sardonic bastard.
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Oklahoma had joined Texas in affirming the proper Constitutional role of the Federal Government. There’s a storm brewing. Take heed… House bypasses governor’s veto to claim Oklahoma’s sovereignty | NewsOK.com.
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College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader. As a bonus, the dead scumbag was named Calvin! Okay, I’m kidding a bit with the bonus.
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Nothing really to see on this post. I’ve installed the Wordbook plugin to cross-post blog updates to Facebook. Trying to tie it all together…
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The following draft Constitutional Amendment is making the rounds on the ‘net. While there are some areas that need work (Amendment IV bothers me), I believe this really could by our last, best hope at recovering the nation our Founders built for us. The new Tea Party movement would do well to adopt this as [...]
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I’ve installed a new commenting system using IntenseDebate. Feel free to give it a test drive below.
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So far, nothing has been more impressive to me in the philosophical realm than Objectivism. I believe you will be hard-pressed to arrive at a more self-consistent, rigorous philosophy than this. After working my way through Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, and most of the way through The Voice of Reason, I feel certain [...]
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