tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59820732009-02-21T02:33:13.302-06:00A Fair and Balanced WeblogEdgenoreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982073.post-1111132198618519432005-03-18T01:48:00.000-06:002005-03-18T01:49:58.620-06:00

Many folks are querulous about the idea that the Hawai'ian Daniels voted in favor of opening ANWR to drilling. This article may provide the answer - a little tit for tat with Ted Stevens in return for recognition of native Hawai'ians.

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Several bloggers have posted lists (Alterdestiny, Majikthise, etc.) recently, which got me to thinking about the topic.In no particular order, here are the ten films I think were the best of the 1990s1. Schindler's List2. True Romance3. Shawshank Redemption4. Pulp Fiction5. The Usual Suspects6. Glengarry Glen Ross7. Leaving Las Vegas8. Fargo9. The Matrix10. Shakespeare in LoveHonorable Mention

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Make your own map of states you've visited

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I am happy to see at least one Pennsylvanian front and center today in the fight to unseat Rick Santorum in 2006. He's got a good site with some video up already, and just posted an introduction on Daily Kos today. What excites me is that he knows the future is not only about the netroots, its also about the traditional grassroots, and he's got the experience working traditional campaigns.Check

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Via Laura Rozen - Our Secretary of Defense no longer feels like he has to report his activities to Congress, except when it fits into his schedule. That's nice.At least this makes A1 of the Post: Two dozen members of the House Armed Services Committee had not yet had their turn to question Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld at yesterday's hearings when he decided he had had enough.

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Republican Congressman Tom Cole claims a vote against the re-election of President Bush is like supporting Adolph Hitler during World War Two. It's what he said recently before a meeting of Canadian County Republicans. This comes via Calpundit and KTOK in Oklahoma City. U-S Representative Tom Cole might have stirred up Democrats by saying a vote against the re-election of President Bush is like

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Fire Fighters President Says Use of Fire Fighter Images in New Bush Ads Smack of Political Opportunism From Harold Schaitberger, head of the IAFF firefighters union: "I'm disappointed but not surprised that the President would try to trade on the heroism of those fire fighters in the September 11 attacks. The use of 9/11 images are hypocrisy at its worst. Here's a President that initially

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No way, says White House. Now-exiled Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide says that U.S. forces forced him to resign and threatened him before he capitulated and ended up on a plane to Africa. Many bloggers have already covered this news, but there were two things from the Bush administration that were outrageous and worthy of further exposition. The first is the White House's denial of

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. spoke here today on a variety of topics, including his work to protect and preserve our environment, but surprisingly, much of his speech had political overtones. At one point, he commented that of course we can all go out and buy hybrid cars, but the problem is really one that begins with the subversion of our democratic system by large corporations. I wanted to share

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I was somewhat surprised when the opinion came down this morning in Locke v. Davey (pdf). A Washington state college student received a scholarship from the state under a program which prohibited the scholarships from being used for devotional studies. Since the student Davey was intending on pursuing a degree in pastoral ministry, the state refused to allow him to use their money to help pay

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In 1981, Ronald Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, proposed classifying ketchup as a vegetable as part of Reagan's budget cuts for federally financed school lunch programs (it would make it cheaper to satisfy the requirements on vegetable content of lunches). The suggestion was widely ridiculed and the proposal was killed. In an homage to the greatest Republican President ever, the

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Virginia's Senate is considering a plan to raise state taxes by $1.8 billion to deal with budget shortfalls occasioned by lower federal funds coming into the state. A key Senate committee passed a plan Tuesday that would raise Virginia's taxes by $1.8 billion each year but backs away from proposals to completely repeal the car tax and to give county governments the ability to impose a local

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Since gay marriage is continuing to dominate the headlines, and 'don't ask, don't tell' seems likely to continue for the near future, I thought I'd comment on one of the more insidious side effects of our government's failure to sanction equal rights for persons of all sexual orientations. The story begins with the American Association of Law Schools. In 1990, several years before 'don't ask,

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The last week I've been serving on jury duty here in the City of St. Louis. It was a rewarding experience, and one that I did not expect to have, considering I've been in law school for almost two years now. In most jurisdictions (if not all), licensed attorneys are exempted from jury service, and the rumor I had always heard was that law students are de facto exempt because no lawyer will

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Crooked Timber makes sense of all the nonsense being floated in the media lately about the CIA misleading the President, that I've included most of it, because there's no way I could've written this in four paragraphs so eloquently. It's regularly stated that the behavior of Saddam Hussein in obstructing weapons inspections led analysts to assume he had something to hide. I shared this view

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Governor Granholm Endorses John Kerry for President Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm, Lt. Governor John D. Cherry, Jr., and Congressman Sandy Levin today announced they are endorsing John Kerry for President of the United States. Granholm, Cherry, and Levin, three of the state’s leading Democrats, are supporting Kerry because of his plan to create jobs, expand access to affordable health

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Dean spoke to a room full of supporters at the Missouri History Museum just now. The room was an auditorium which seats about 400, but there were people standing in the aisles, and rafters onstage, so the room probably had between 500 and 600 people in it. There were also a great number of people who were turned away into a second overflow room. Since I was one of the lucky ones to get a seat

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John Edwards chose to appear at Blueberry Hill tonight, which actually is a bar named for the song, or the song is named after it, I'm not quite sure which, but Chuck Berry still plays there regularly. For anyone who's been there, this would seem like an odd choice, because although it's a fairly large establishment, it's very separated into separate rooms, and as a result, Edwards spoke in the

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I just got home from Kerry's single appearance here at the St. Louis Community College, and thought I'd share my thoughts about it. First of all, there were a LOT of people there; much more than I expected, and though I have no experience at estimating crowds; I'd say at least 1000 people packed into a room and overflow intended for about 250. Kerry's staff was being ably assisted by the

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Reasonable people in this country can certainly disagree about whether states ought to execute criminals, and that's probably why we still do it. Still, there ought to be some limits on executions, and the Supreme Court in 2002 ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that states cannot execute mentally retarded individuals. A second limitation may be on its way. The Court this week granted certiorari to

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Sources with knowledge of the case tell TIME that behind closed doors at the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse, nearby the Capitol, a grand jury began hearing testimony Wednesday in the investigation of who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame to columnist Robert Novak and other journalists. As Sol Wachler has commented, "a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich." It isn't

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Citigroup, Wall Street, and the Fleecing of the South (pdf) This is an excellent piece of investigative journalism that ought to get wider press. What would you think about an organization that helps get loans to "mostly low-income, blue-collar and minority consumers snubbed by banks and credit card companies [and] ... middle-class consumers who have hit hard times because of layoffs or credit

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Via Pandagon: This is full text, from the Miserable Failure web site itself (click here for the press release): Remarks by the President to the Press Pool Nothin' Fancy Cafe Roswell, New Mexico 11:25 A.M. MST THE PRESIDENT: I need some ribs. Q Mr. President, how are you? THE PRESIDENT: I'm hungry and I'm going to order some ribs. Q What would you like? THE PRESIDENT: Whatever you

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I've long said that there are about 3 million Americans who ought to be vociferous supporters of President Bush, those that are in the top 1% of income earners, and who are tremendously aided by a President who recklessly reduces not only their marginal income tax rates, but also reduces the income the majority of them earn for capital investment. Put another way, they are pleased that Mr. Bush

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In atypical fashion, I'm not going to source this entry, as it's merely my musings on what happened over the last 36 hours. Commentators have posited that Howard Dean's support is soft because many of his supporters are primarily ABB (anyone but Bush), and secondarily Deaniacs. I think there's something to this. Last night's results merely reinforce the notion that policy is not what drives

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