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Happy Birthday, America!

Hard times 233 years ago today. By the time the Declaration of Independence was signed, the colonies that would become the United States of America had been at war with the center of the metropolitan empire for over a year, reeling from defeat to retreat in the field, and managing only the not inconsequential feat [...]

Palin Resigning

Surprise news from Wasilla:
In a stunning announcement, Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday morning she will resign her office in a few weeks.
Speculation has swirled for weeks, perhaps months that Palin would not seek re-election in 2010 as she pursues a political career on the national stage. The former vice presidential candidate has long been rumored [...]

In the Tank

But for a good cause:
Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was cancelling plans for an exclusive “salon” at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and [...]

No Longer Useful

Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer was much petted by the anti-war left not so very long ago. Now it seems that the useful idiot has lost his usefulness.
Welcome to the ranks of the “wingnuts,” Michael. What a long, strange trip it’s been.
Sometimes a kook is just a kook.

Presidential Signing Statements

They’re back, only with more nuance!
Update: Town hall meetings, too!

Want a Good Read?

Read something old:
If a service does not possess a well-defined strategic concept, the public and political leaders will be confused as to the role of the service . . . and apathetic or hostile to the claims made by the service on the resources of society.” And specifically of the Navy, “What function do you [...]

60

Minnesota voters and their supreme court have sent Al Franken, career comic and host of blockbuster progressive radio network Air America to be the Democratic Party’s 60th US senator, thereby guaranteeing the party a filibuster-proof majority to go with their solid majority in the House of Representatives, so long as Harry Reid and majority whip [...]

Left to Sarah

“I wish I could quit you.”
I kind of wish they could too. It’s unhealthy, this degree of obsessiveness. Unseemly.
Mommy issues, I’m guessing.

Road Trip?

Count me out. Don’t care who’s driving.

Note: I believe this is before we reform the health care system.

Awkward

SCOTUS has ruled 5-4 that white firefighters seeking advancement were unfairly discriminated against because of their race in New Haven, CT. The city had made a written test the main requirement for advancement to lieutenant and captain, but threw the results out after a disproportionate number of white candidates  passed the test.
The president’s first Supreme [...]

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