Archive for March 15th, 2010

Late Night Video: RIP Peter Graves

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Glenn Beck Is After…YOU!

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OK, maybe I’m weird (that was rhetorical), but this from MoveOn cracked me up. Just type your name in … it’s worth it. I especially like the French Glenn Beck poster. I know that His Beckness will never have reason to go after me, but this video made me feel special — even if only for […]

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Monday Evening’s Read

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As I mentioned yesterday, the Obama Administration was sending over its blueprint for the Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. (pdf) The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg on the future of nuclear energy in the United States, Some Nukes. Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria on President Obama’s successful strategy in Pakistan, A Victory for Obama.

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Glenn Beck vs. Fox

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I’ve always thought that Glenn Beck would flame out sooner rather than later. You can’t make your living as a prophet of doom & gloom if the doom & gloom doesn’t come to pass. However, the end for Glenn Beck may be more related to money than from burn-out, according to Howard Kurtz: With his […]

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Monday Open Thread

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Beware the Ides of March! Today is the Ides of March and also the Breitbartocalypse. At this time tomorrow the “institutional left” will have ceased to exist. I suppose you’ll only see a blank page here tomorrow. We will all have been raptured or something. It’s pretty unclear what Breitbart meant. Stay tuned! Let’s open […]

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Happy 25th, Dot Com

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They grow up so fast, don’t they? To some of us, at least, it seems like only yesterday that this whole “internets” thing got started. I remember how excited I got when I first started seeing web addresses referenced in tv commercials back in the mid to late ’90s. Little did I know, really until […]

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States Delaying Refunds

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This really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but states have had a particularly tough time during the recent economic downturn. Since almost all are prohibited by their own laws from running deficits, they’ve looked everywhere they can to grab as many extra dollars as they can. The latest idea (and I found out […]

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Health Care Reform: The Endgame

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Robert Gibbs was on the Sunday shows yesterday and said that by next week health care reform will be the law of the land: “We’ll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” Gibbs said on “Fox News Sunday.” Gibbs added that those on next week’s Sunday talk shows “will […]

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No Quarter

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No Quarter

This post is an odd one to write because all it is is a rather long answer to one trivia question: Who wrote the bill which created the most successful commemorative coin series in the history of the United States? This post has nothing to do with my dislike of Mike Castle as he has only proved himself to be an eager lapdog of the Republican Party leadership over the last decade. This is trivia only.

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BREAKING: House Democrats Release HCR Bill

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Late last night the House Budge Committee released the legislation that will serve as the basis for debate this week. Note this is the same legislation that made it through the Education and Labor Committee and Ways and Means Committee last year. Download and read the pdf.

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