A More Perfect Union: Obama Labor Day Love (& Hate) Fest

I would really like to thank the President for helping to tee up this article for me. I was busy this weekend and I was trying to figure out how to bring my disparate thoughts about Labor Day together in this article. Thank you, Mr. President, for… Participating in an event organized by labor unions… more

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The science is scuttled: Abraham, Gleick, and Trenberth resort to libeling Spencer and Christy (via Watts Up With That?)

It’s still unbelievable, given what most of us have seen the “Global Warming” scientists pull off with the help of their leftist political friends, but here they’re at it yet again. Via Ace and the UK Register [my bold]; But peer-reviewed publication in a journal has become a powerful propaganda weapon – the lead scientists [...]

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More Readers, More Questions About LCGOP, AFP Email

A simple publication of an email which had been distributed publicly, a few questions about it, a rather swift expression of displeasure by a paid GOP employee, and our response to it has been generating a lot of interest by way of hits on our site, as we’ve previously reported. Also, we’ve now received a [...]

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I used to love 24! Just found the original un-aired pilot from 1994

Jack Bauer was bad ass. Using the high tech toys found at CTU, he was able to tap into traffic cameras (almost always Caltrans cameras, because, well, just ‘cuz), satellite feeds, ATM cameras, whatever it took to follow a bad guy anywhere, at any time. The phone system, of course, could find the President of [...]

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The Rooker-Feldman Doctrine, in short, Federal Government has no jurisdiction to review state court judgments.

I. THE ROOKER-FELDMAN DOCTRINE At its most basic, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, named after the two cases from which it sprung,12 is the principle that lower federal courts do not have jurisdiction to review state court judgments.13 It is based on the congressional grant, in 28 U.S.C. § 1257,14 of appellate [*pg 645] jurisdiction over state [...]

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GiN Tea Party Questions: GOP Employee Seems to Protest Too Much

  Thursday’s post, “Tea Party” People: See Anything Wrong With This Email?, has attracted a LOT of traffic, but only one comment so far.  In our opinion, however, that comment and our response to it merit more attention from our readers than it’s likely to get if it’s just appended to the original article.  For [...]

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“Tea Party” People: See Anything Wrong With This Email?

A snapshot of an email received by GiN’s Norlyn and forwarded to me is included below for readers’ consideration. Norlyn’s included note… “Start here. Note the ‘From’, the speakers, and the ‘paid for by’. Does anyone else see a problem here? Anyone?”   Linda and I have the same questions. What say YOU?    

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