davidl on March 29th, 2009

Now this is why Kate, Small Dead Animlas, is my favorite north of the border blogger.   Sorry Kathy.

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Constitution of the United States, Article VI:

All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.

This Constitution, and the

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davidl on March 28th, 2009

Earlier, I said no.

Now I inclined to believe that Canada’s health was not helpful to the late Ms Richardson.  Ingrid Perez, Globe and Mail, offers a pretty good time line.  I am less than impressed with the four

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davidl on March 28th, 2009

The right of a citizen to petition the state is fundamental, presumed to have been endowed by our creator.   More over, all members of the public have a right to attend public meetings.   Yet for reaons unknown to thinking man,

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Eric Florack on March 28th, 2009

An interesting, and mostly unsurprising report from the New York Times this morning.  Indeed, the only thing surprising about it is that it comes from the New York Times. Here’s some of it:

SAN FRANCISCO — It sounds like such

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Eric Florack on March 28th, 2009

I’ve managed to get a WYSIWYG editor to the comments area. Tiny MCE is nice if it works, but for some reason I’ve  never figured out, it doesn’t get along with this theme.

So I found another way to get

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davidl on March 28th, 2009

Look at the bright side with a gross income in excess of a million and half dollars a year, George Tiller is the type of small business man that Barack Obama wants to punish,  Associated Press:

Tiller estimated that

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davidl on March 28th, 2009

Representative Eric Cantor (Virginia – Seven) has created a media firestorm because he went to a Britney Spears concert rather than a Barack Obama press conference,  Anne Schroeder Mullins, Politico:

Everybody has been asking GOP Whip Eric

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Eric Florack on March 27th, 2009

Sad word from the radio just now… Dan Seals… One half of the duo of England Dan and John Ford Coley, has died. Apparently, Seals contracted lymphoma two years ago, and it was complicatioons from that, that took his life

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Eric Florack on March 27th, 2009

Welcome one and all to the most intense nghtly read anywhere on the sphere: The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the ‘Wonderful Wino” edition.

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davidl on March 27th, 2009

The long and winding road, the Gipper nails Obama, with a wee bit of help from Fred Barnes.   Ronald Reagan (audio), 1964:

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so

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Eric Florack on March 27th, 2009

James Joyner, this morning:

President Obama says he’ll help GM and Chrysler but they’ll have to agree to some “pretty drastic changes.”

“We will provide them some help,” Obama said. “I know that it is not popular to provide help

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John Ray, Stop the ACLU, reports on another skewering of Algore pet theory of anthropengic global warming:

By Richard Courtney

I write to report on a debate that defeated the motion “This House Believes Global Warming is a Global

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davidl on March 27th, 2009

On March 8, President Barack Obama falsely claimed to have lifted the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, Gilbert Meilaender, Paul McHugh, Benjamin Carson, Nicholas Eberstadt, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Alfonso Gómez-Lobo, William Hurlbut, Donald Landry, Peter Lawler,

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davidl on March 27th, 2009

Barney Frank(MA – Four) writing in the Puffington Post attempts, rather lamely, to offer a defense for calling Justice Anton Scalia a homohobe:

Justice Scalia denounced the court majorities not simply for finding that it was unconstitutional to

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