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Archive for September, 2009

Sarah Palin: Libertarian For President ? Are You Kidding Me ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, September 25th, 2009. Filed under Libertarians, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Sarah Palin

Over at Nolan Charts, one writer suggests that the Libertarian Party might want to look at a certain former Alaska Governor:
After decades of being forced to choose between voting for the lesser of two evils or wasting our votes on someone whose chance of winning was considerably less than that of the proverbial snowball in [...]

Republicans File Suit To Block Kennedy Replacement From Being Seated

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, September 25th, 2009. Filed under In The News, Legal, Politics

Republicans in Massachusetts have filed a lawsuit challenging the appointment of a replacement to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat:
After failing in their bid to stop the Massachusetts legislature from giving Democratic Governor Deval Patrick the power to fill a United States Senate vacancy, Republicans are going to court on Friday to try to prevent the [...]

Obama Losing Support On Health Care, Afghan War

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, September 25th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Congress, Health Care Reform, Political Parties, Politics, Republicans

The latest CBS/New York Times poll shows that while the President remains popular, his major policy initiatives are not:
President Obama is confronting declining support for his handling of the war in Afghanistan and an electorate confused and anxious about a health care overhaul as he prepares for pivotal battles over both issues, according to the [...]

Census Worker Death May Have Been Suicide

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, September 25th, 2009. Filed under In The News

At the very least it’s clear that questions remain unanswered:
I’ve got some more detail for you on the case of the Bill Sparkman, the U.S. census worker who was found dead of hanging, reportedly with the word “fed” scrawled on his chest:
1) Kentucky state police have not ruled out the possibility that the death was [...]

U.S. To Call Out Iran On Secret Nuclear Facility

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, September 25th, 2009. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Iran, Middle East

Today’s New York Times reports that the United States, along with Britain and France, is preparing to accuse Iran of having a covert nuclear fuel facility:
PITTSBURGH — President Obama and the leaders of Britain and France will accuse Iran Friday of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, saying it has hidden the [...]

Ten Days Ago, Orly Taitz Said She’ll Have Obama Out Of Office “In 30 Days”

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politics

So how’s that working out Orly ?
Well, since making that claim, she’s:
Lost yet another lawsuit filed on behalf of a solider who didn’t want to go to Iraq.
Had a bar complaint filed against her.
Make that two bar complaints.
Accused of telling two witnesses to lie to a Federal District Court Judge.
Had the Judge who dismissed the [...]

Glenn Beck Explains Frog-Gate

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Glenn Beck, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

It turns out that the frogs I mentioned last night were fake, so here’s what Glenn had to say:

For the record, I don’t blog from my basement. I think Little Green Footballs is still one of the smartest blogs on the web. And, I believe, more than ever, that Glenn Beck is insane.

Justice Ginsburg Hospitalized

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under In The News, Supreme Court

Fortunately, it doesn’t seem serious:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Thursday after becoming ill in her office at the Supreme Court.
A statement from the court said that Justice Ginsburg, 76, was taken to Washington Hospital Center as a precaution.
The statement said that she had received treatment earlier in the day for an [...]

Al Sharpton And Louis Farakhan Welcome Terrorist Muammar Qaddafi To New York

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Foreign Affairs, War On Terror

FARRAKHAN (14:23): Next week, as you may know, the General Assembly of the United Nations is opening and brother leader Moammar Khadafy along with many many other African, European and Asian and Latin American and Caribbean heads of state are going to be visiting the UN and the United States. This will be the first [...]

Chris Christie’s Embarrassing Relative

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under In The News, Politics

It seems he’s got a distant relative by marriage with an interesting past:
For Christopher J. Christie, it was inescapably an uncomfortable family connection. Tino Fiumara, the brother of his aunt’s husband, was a fearsome and ranking member of the Genovese crime family: twice convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 years in federal prison, and linked [...]

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