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Archive for October, 2009

South Carolina GOP: Jim DeMint Watches Out For Pennies Like A Jew

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 20th, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Political Parties, Politics, Republicans

Republicans spend so much time fending of unfair accusations of racism that you’d think they’d be smart enough not to appoint people who do stuff like this:
Two South Carolina County Republican Party chairmen stepped up to rebut criticism of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) in a newspaper editorial Sunday. But their defense of the senator might [...]

Joe Biden: It’s A Depression

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 20th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Credit Crisis, Economics, Joe Biden, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Don’t you think that Barack Obama sometimes wishes he had been able to lock Joe Biden in Dick Cheney’s undisclosed location for the next three years ?

Swiss Court Denies Polanski’s Bail Request

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 20th, 2009. Filed under Celebrities, In The News

Roman Polanski will have to spend his time in a Swiss jail until his extradition status is determined:
BELLINZONA, Switzerland – Roman Polanski suffered another setback in his fight against extradition to the United States on Tuesday when a Swiss court ordered the 76-year-old director kept in jail because he poses a high flight risk.
The Federal [...]

Public Support For Marijuana Legalization Reaches All Time High

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 20th, 2009. Filed under In The News, Individual Liberty, Politics, War On Drugs

A new Gallup Poll shows that public support for legalizing marijuana is at a higher level than ever before:
PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup’s October Crime poll finds 44% of Americans in favor of making marijuana legal and 54% opposed. U.S. public support for legalizing marijuana was fixed in the 25% range from the late 1970s to [...]

Dozens Of Planets Discovered Outside Solar System

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 19th, 2009. Filed under Science, Space Exploration

Cool:
(CNN) — Thirty-two planets have been discovered outside Earth’s solar system through the use of a high-precision instrument installed at a Chilean telescope, an international team announced Monday.
The existence of the so-called exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — was announced at the European Southern Observatory/Center for Astrophysics, University of Porto conference in Porto, [...]

Election Audit Throws Out Nearly 1/3 Of Votes For Karzai In Afghan Election

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 19th, 2009. Filed under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Politics

Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got a problem in Afghanistan:
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s political crisis deepened on Monday, with President Hamid Karzai hesitating to accept an international audit that stripped him of nearly a million votes, requiring a runoff with his top challenger.
A panel of United Nations-appointed experts issued findings for the first time on Monday [...]

Helen Thomas Tells White House To Back Off Attacks On Fox News

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 19th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Freedom of Speech, Media, Politics

Some interesting comments from the dean of the White House Press Corps:
Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas on Monday advised the Obama administration to stand down and avoid further fighting with Fox News and its correspondents.
In an interview with MSNBC, the columnist — who is promoting her new book on presidents and their campaigns — [...]

Former Thatcher Adviser Warns That Climate Change Treaty Will Lead To World Government

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 19th, 2009. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Individual Liberty

Lord Christopher Monckton, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, recently spoke before a group organized by the Minnesota Free Market Institute about the Climate Treaty to be signed in Copenhagen in December:
Monckton was a science adviser for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He spoke at Bethel University in St. Paul this week, where he delivered [...]

Official Transcript In Keyes/Barnett v. Obama

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 19th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politics

For your reading pleasure, and thanks to our Friends at Politijab.com, here’s the official transcript in the most recent hearing in the birther case currently pending in California which I think we can expect to see dismissed shortly:
Keyes|Barnett v. Obama – Official Court Transcript From 10-5-2009 Hearing

Ron Paul: We Must Reverse Course

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 19th, 2009. Filed under Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Ron Paul
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