Jason Rapert took time out of his proselytizing to explain why his crumbled monument was constitutional. He was wrong.
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Who Have You Wronged, Mr. Maggio? Hog Nation Turns Its Angry Eyes To You. (Woo woo wooooo.)
One Night In The Tidal Basin: How A Stripper Doomed Health Care Reform In 1974
Both in the run up to the vote on the Affordable Care Act[foot]Calling it “Obamacare” without some seriously scary music in the background just seems wrong.[/foot] and since its passage, there have been a number of stories about how President…
An Un-Conservative Truth
"Habit rules the unreflecting herd." –Wm. Wordsworth
I’m not exactly breaking new sociological ground when I say that we humans are creatures of habit. We do the same things, at roughly the same time, on a roughly regular basis. You might not be able to set your…
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” -Galileo
It ain’t about that paper. It’s about me hurtin’ his people and messin’ with his world. –Omar Little While this quote is very context specific — Omar’s explaining why he robbed Marlo Stanfield — there is an underlying point to…
AR-01: I Hear Sears Is Having A Sale On Hypocrisy, Rick
Politico has a story today about a letter that freshman Republican representatives are sending to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, which includes this passage: Mr. Reid, your record on spending in the Senate is one of failure. You have failed…
A Timeout For The Fab Five
We interrupt our regularly scheduled exposing of the absurdity of “reimbursements” to bring you a bit of positive news. Following last Wednesday’s first post on statutory expense payments, I requested updated records from both the House and Senate, which I…
Well Said
Busy day, but I wanted to get this posted and hopefully expand on the thought later. When he was running as the Vice Presidential half of Thomas E. Dewey’s Republican ticket in 1948, Earl Warren, then the Governor of California,…
HB 1887: And Never The Twain Shall Meet
About seven weeks ago, when it was rumored that Rep. Andy Mayberry was going to file a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks’ gestation, I wrote a post explaining the likely problems with such a bill. Mayberry has now filed…