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Archive for April, 2009

Don’t Have Time For Twitter ? Try Flutter

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, April 23rd, 2009. Filed under Humor, Internet, Technology, Twitter

H/T: Riley

Barney Frank On The Federal Reserve Transparency Act

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, April 23rd, 2009. Filed under Credit Crisis, Economics, Politics, Ron Paul

House Banking Committee Chairman Barney Frank talks about Ron Paul’s bill to force the Federal Reserve Board to open it’s books:

The bill currently has 79 co-sponsors and, although Frank’s name isn’t on that list presently, his comments seem to suggest that Paul’s bill will get serious consideration in the near future.
Good.

Connecticut Passes Gay Marriage Law With Religious Protections

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, April 23rd, 2009. Filed under Gay Marriage, Individual Liberty

Acting under the order of it’s Supreme Court, the Connecticut legislature has revised the state’s marriage laws:
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers voted late Wednesday to update the state’s marriage laws to conform with last fall’s landmark state Supreme Court ruling allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry.
A spokesman for Gov. M. Jodi Rell said [...]

Question Of The Day

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009. Filed under Baseball, Sports, Washington DC, Washington Nationals

Why should taxpayers have to foot the bill if the Washington Nationals can’t win a game in nine innings ?
The D.C. Government doesn’t think they should:
The District has told Metro that it will no longer pay for the subway system to stay open late to accommodate Washington Nationals games delayed by rain or extra innings, [...]

Further Proof That Alan Keyes Was Absent When They Were Handing Out Sanity

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Politics

My Liberty Papers co-blogger Stephen Gordon has the details:
In a match made in heaven, Prison Planet has joined with former Ambassador and presidential candidate Alan Keyes to suggest that President Barrack Obama plans to “stage terror attacks, declare martial law and cancel the 2012 elections.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time that Alan Keyes has [...]

Ron Paul & Hillary Clinton On Foreign Policy

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Ron Paul

Here’s Ron Paul and Hillary Clinton at today’s House Foreign Affairs Committee which includes some surprisingly gracious words from the Secretary of State:

H/T: Liberty Maven

General Motors To Shut Down For The Summer

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009. Filed under Auto Industry, Business, Economics

Well, most of the company at least:
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. is planning to temporarily close most of its U.S. factories for up to nine weeks this summer because of slumping sales and growing inventories of unsold vehicles, two people briefed on the plan said Wednesday.
The exact dates of the closures were not known, [...]

Dumbest Gay Marriage Ad Ever

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Gay Marriage, Individual Liberty

From a group calling itself the National Organization for Marriage:

Personally, I like this parody from Funny or Die better:

A Gaythering Storm from Jane Lynch

Another “Expert” Says We Should Get Rid Of The Vice-Presidency

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009. Filed under History, Politics, U.S. Constitution

Thanks to my weekend blog break, I missed a few things, including this piece by historian Jeremy Lott that we should eliminate the office of Vice-President:
The framers of the Constitution got many things right. But when they got things wrong, they were seriously off. Compromising on slavery, for instance. That’s a bad one. But creating [...]

Supreme Court One Step Closer To Allowing Strip Searches In Schools

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009. Filed under In The News, Individual Liberty, Legal, Privacy, Supreme Court, War On Drugs

I’ve written in the past about the case of Savanna Redding, a now 19 year-old woman who, when she was thirteen years old was strip-searched by officials at her Arizona school who were convinced that she was concealing a banned substance; Advil.
As it turned out, Savanna had no drugs on her, but the strip search [...]

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