February 2010
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January 2010
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WatchEncore.
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WatchCNN’s visual stimulus-money tracker.
[Click nodes to expand and click-through to higher res for fine print.]
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Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits →
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The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on their participation in federal campaigns. … The justices also struck down part of the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that barred union- and corporate-paid issue ads in the closing days of election campaigns....
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“Law school is for generically smart people who lack other marketable...”
– Marin, Above The Law: Pls Hndle Thx: The $100,000 Question
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“NBC is like a guy with two girlfriends who doesn’t know which one...”
– Jay Leno, on NBC’s Tonight Show succession cliffhanger… in 1992!
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Bon Voyeurge! TSA to Peek Under Our Covers... For...
Lovepuppy reblogged this sensational graphic from continuum’s post on expanding deployment of full-body imaging:
The full body scanners that President Obama last night authorized to be rolled out in airports across the country at a cost of over $1 billion dollars not only produce detailed pictures of your genitals, but once inverted some of those images also display your naked body in full...
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In New Hampshire: Cash-for-Wood-Stove-Clunkers →
mikehudack:ohhleary:
Deb Ferguson, a real estate agent who said she burned four cords of wood each winter in her old Tempwood stove, went to a meeting about the program but it left her wary.
“Don’t get me wrong — I love a good coupon,” Ms. Ferguson said, sitting at her kitchen table in a toasty home across from a horse farm. “But there’s too much government bureaucracy around it.”
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“The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith,” said Hume....”
– Fox News’ Brit Hume: Tiger Woods must become Christian to be forgiven… video here (via brooklynmutt:evangotlib:soupsoup)
Leaving aside Hume’s presumption and imperative tone, he is broadly correct about “the kind of redemption and forgiveness.” The Venerable John Paul II...
