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The Republican House leadership of the 112th Congress has shown more of a commitment to opening up the inner workings of Congress than the leaderships of the recent past. They’ve liberaized the rules on what technologies members can use, improved live video offerings of floor activity, and created a new website for accessing the texts of some bills. But on the essential issue of making the raw data of Congress available to the public in a reliable, timely and systematic fashion, they have come up far short. Read more
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The media has spent the last few weeks trying to guess what Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert had planned for their "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" — without much success. But on Saturday (October 30), the day of the event, the attendees had a clear idea of what they expected: to laugh and experience a moment of political and cultural catharsis.
It was an affair to (mostly) remember.
Comedy Central cohorts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert conducted their “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” from the National Mall on Saturday to a crowd that totaled “over 10 million people” -- at least that's what Stewart estimated. Gotta love inflated figures! Read more
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"Too bad," said my friend. "If the muggers feared we had a gun, they might be inclined to leave us alone."
By Tom Purcell
"When you get mugged, there are certain rules you must follow," my friend and his wife explained to me as we walked from a Washington, D.C., pub to their condo.
"When I get mugged?"
"Muggers are polite when you follow their instructions, but they get surly when you are rude," said his wife.
"How can you be rude to a mugger?" Read more
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Next month's news: Expressing dismay at the Senate vote rejecting Elena Kagan's bid to join the Supreme Court, President Obama today nominated Gen. David H. Petraeus as the Court's next Associate Justice. "The Supreme Court is bigger than any one Justice," the president told reporters. "I have complete confidence that Gen. Petraeus will help guide our nation in the war against bad laws."
Next week's news: Calling him "the right man at the right time," President Obama today named Gen. David H. Petraeus commander of all U.S. operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Obama acknowledged that efforts to stop the Deepwater Horizon spill are "bigger than any one person," yet expressed confidence that Petraeus could single-handedly win the war against oil in the Gulf. Read more
Other attempts to pass laws to abolish cursing, an interpretation of using the Lord's name in vain, have been tried.
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There are no democratically elected leaders in the Christian bible. I know - it's shocking. But, if you catch the rhetoric pertaining to the US Constitution, you'd think the Ten Commandments are its bullet points. They're not. The whole idea of a representative democracy (a Greek word) comes from Ancient (think then-solvent) Greece. Read more
Conservatives decry activist judges - primarily those who act contrary to conservativ e politics.
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President Barack Obama has chosen Elena Kagan to fill the vacancy left by Justice John Paul Stevens' retirement. Sadly, Kagan cannot fill Justice Stevens' mighty shoes. Read more
Botox, however, is administered by plastic surgeons. Plastic surgeons have the dough to hire expensive lobbyists.
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My family and I are taking the new tax personally. Read more
Their sentences were commuted on the condition they leave the state.
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The most pivotal scene in our nation's recent civil rights history was not as some would assume, electing the more qualified, younger and dynamic presidential candidate (of a different party than George W. Bush) who also happened to be half African, - but it was, in fact, the self-proclaimed Tea Party protesters hurling racial epithets at members of Congress. Read more
