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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Your Mama’s SO Ugly, She’s — DISABLED???

  “THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, [...]

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The question the old media won’t ask Obama: “Are you a flake?”

Funny, any verbal flubbery from Sarah Palin, or Michele Bachmann, hell ANY Republican or otherwise “non-liberal” is dissected and blown across the nation on all channels and every page. When it comes to Obama, not so much… They&#8217...

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