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Archive for December, 2008

Craziness from the UK Update

Friday, December 26th, 2008

In the “it could definitely be happening here but I’m so glad that it’s not” category, I bring you some of The Daily Mail’s tales of life across the pond.
A mother of eight lives in a £2.6 million rented townhouse, paid for by the local council, because her huge family didn’t fit in council housing. [...]

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You’d think that the United States’ primary missile detection system might have important things to do at all times, including Christmas Eve. However, tonight NORAD’s central mission involves being “in charge of the annual Christmas mission to keep children informed of Santa’s worldwide journey to their homes” or in other words, helping you track Santa [...]

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Bush has begun accepting that special honor of the two-term president, the presidential pardon. Who gets the honors?
Our distinguished lineup includes:
Isaac Robert Toussie, “one of Long Island’s biggest developers” who, at 29 years old, raked in $20 million from selling subprime mortgages to “inner city minorities” who couldn’t afford Toussie’s overpriced, apparently dilapidated houses. Toussie’s [...]

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Testing the Limits of Federalism

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

What happens when a city passes a law that violates a state law– a state law which, in turn, violates federal law?
In a case that has “long legal battle” written all over it, Sausalito, California might just find out. It’s banned medical marijuana dispensaries, establishments approved by both state and city voters by referendum– a [...]

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Obama’s Senate Replacement

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Who should Rod Blagojevich/Pat Quinn/the Illinois voters anoint to Obama’s old Senate seat? Radley Balko has the answer: the guy who retired so that Obama could have the seat in the first place, Peter Fitzgerald.

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Disputing Obama’s citizenship is a losing battle, no matter how you look at it. Anyone who does it will be seen as a conspiracy theorist and a lunatic. Apparently the We the People Foundation feels they’re up to the task, since they have also repeatedly taken on the (alleged) conspiracy theorist/lunatic mantle with their previous [...]

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