Guests for the Sunday talk shows this week: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.; Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Reps. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Chris …
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I don’t believe this. I can’t believe this. GOP: Yes to Contraception for Wild Horses, No for Women Yep. Because of an excess of wild horses, they’re being exterminated. Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN) introduced and got passed an amendment to the continuing resolution the House has been working on all week which says the Bureau …
I just sent a message to a friend of mine via Facebook regarding a dream I had last night: You and some other guy I didn’t recognize were performing some kind of scientific experiment which involved putting a pig and a billy goat in my neighborhood. The pig was in our outside stairwell and the …
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Today the US House of Representatives decided that women’s health was far less important than deficits by defunding Planned Parenthood. Why? Because the pro-forced pregnancy crowd can’t tolerate the roughly 3% of its work providing abortions to women who want them. Never mind the 35% of its work that is contraception-related, the 34% of its …
You know that Wisconsin’s new Republican governor is attempting to take collective bargaining rights away from most public sector employees in the name of austerity and eliminating a purported $137M deficit. Now we learn that according to Wisconsin’s own fiscal bureau the state would likely have had a surplus of $121M if it were not …
I pulled the wheelchair out of the trunk after a trip to the doc this afternoon and tried to close the trunk lid, only to discover the latch won’t catch and the trunk won’t shut tightly. Man. Can life can hold more?
News item: Missouri State Senator wants to exploit children! This act modifies the child labor laws. It eliminates the prohibition on employment of children under age fourteen. Restrictions on the number of hours and restrictions on when a child may work during the day are also removed. It also repeals the requirement that a child …
The official Egypt State Information Service website has been updated to reflect current conditions. I’m both amused and impressed that its webmaster put up a link to the site as it appeared before Mubarak’s departure. Via Skippy, here’s a link to a site called “The Egyptian Presidency.” I’m not sure whether it’s real or a …
In light of the news that Borders Books may declare bankruptcy as early as this week and close 200 or more of its stores, I guess I’d better go use the gift card I was given for Christmas this afternoon. I’d prefer an independent bookstore at the mall at the bottom of my hill to …