Monthly Archives: December 2007

Bucky R.I.P.

Coming home this evening, in the front of the driveway is a small cat… Avid readers of this blog may know of our new September kitten arrival in the form of Bucky, named after the presumptive father (which the kids … Continue reading

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WTOP Interview with Bob Marshall

Delegate Bob Marshall spoke to WTOP’s Mark Plotkin last Friday regarding a myriad of items. Marshall — long a favorite of social and fiscal conservatives — is rumored to be considering a bid for U.S. Senate against former Governor Mark … Continue reading

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Democrat Bobby Scott Votes Against Christmas

True item. The reason why? Because of an expected veto of SCHIP. Anyone else buy that? Since the vote last week, the nine dissenters — all Democrats — have faced a backlash, particularly from bloggers labeling the nine who voted … Continue reading

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Reason & Revelation: Huckativity

Big ol’ h/t to Reason & Revelation.

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Lieberman to endorse McCain

Holy crap. I mean… wow.

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You know, Chichester isn’t wrong about this

Jeff Schapiro with the RTD talks about outgoing Senator John Chichester’s remarks at a recent VACO conference. The topic? Myopia at the General Assembly: He (Chichester) griped about raids on the portion of the budget that finances schools, cops and … Continue reading

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SLANTblog: The Freelancer's Inspiration

How an ice storm, a cup of hot coffee and a hot dog, Buffalo Springfield, and an impending war helped bring one freelancer to world peace . Or something like that. Read it all.

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Israel Questions U.S. Intelligence

Figuratively and literally, according to the Associated Press: Avi Dichter said the assessment also cast doubt on American intelligence in general, including information about Palestinian security forces’ crackdown on militant groups. The Palestinian action is required as part of a … Continue reading

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Dukakabee’s Regressive Sales Tax Scheme

A 23% sales tax on everything you buy: Earlier Friday, on another topic in Boscawen, N.H., Huckabee said eliminating federal income taxes in favor of a national sales tax would help save Social Security – an odd pitch in a … Continue reading

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TechCrunch: A Knol Too Far?

Duncan Riley over at TechCrunch is noticing a trend at Google, moving away from indexing content and towards becoming a content-provider. Whether this is troubling is up to the reader to decide. I for one welcome my new Google overlords … Continue reading

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