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Secret Senator Puts Secret Hold on Bill; Hilarity Ensues

Your Tax Dollars Indeed! Is there a “Bridge to Nowhere” Connection? From TMP Muckracker: Who’s trying to stop the government from telling its citizens where their tax dollars are being spent? Help find...

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Byrd admits that he placed the “secret hold;” Did it for the “American People”

Palm Beach Post: West Virginia Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd admits that he placed a “secret hold” on legislation that would make uncovering the Byzantine world of federal contracting as easy as typing a...

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“Thong Girl 3″ filmed in Mayor’s office; earns our vote

Finally a mayor of the people! Mayor “Horn Dog” Reuters: “I had no idea what the movie was about,” [Gallatin, Tennessee, Mayor Don] Wright said on Friday. “They told me it was about a superhero woman...

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Econ Test: Tell gov’t employees they’ll lose their car perk if they don’t...

Call it another example of the law of unintended consequences not to mention government waste. What happens when you set a minimum mileage amount for bureaucrats to keep their beloved cars? Answer:...

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Don’t even get me started about my town’s mayor…Captain Merrill Stubing!

Okay, he’s an “honorary” mayor. But Captain Stubing is my town’s mayor. Shouldn’t I have some sort of say in this? I guess he beats the previous guy…the always-zany Steve Guttenberg. In fact, looking...

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Why it’s called “Internal Affairs”

Officer Michael Berkow Would you want to see this man walking around in pajama bottoms at work? Neither would we. Latest LAPD hijinx involves the above-pictured senior Internal Affairs officer trading...

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Apparently this is true; apparently someone needs their legal asses kicked

From the Kentucky Herald-Leader: Three Death Row inmates say the three-drug cocktail used in lethal injections have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for executions and want a...

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NASA-Style Fatal Attraction; Love-sick psychotic spacewoman flips out on “rival”

Pop Quiz: Which one of the gals below is a NASA astronaut and which one is a love-sick, psychotic b*tch from hell? It was a trick question: they’re both psychotic nut cases and if you are a man you are...

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I knew there was a reason to support stem cell research

I also knew there was a reason California voters approved that multi-billion dollar stem cell initiative and it had nothing to do with curing Parkinson’s disease. And here it is: Stem cell technique...

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San Bernardino’s Losing Fight Against Award-Winning Strip Club

San Bernardino, a city perhaps best known for meth labs and the Hells Angeles, has been bleeding money for over a decade in its “tilting against windmills” fight against the Flesh Club, which bills...

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Why yes, we do need tort reform

From Marginal Revolution: In Race, Poverty and American Tort Awards (and here), Eric Helland and I show that tort awards increase strongly with county poverty rates especially with minority poverty. A...

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Then Murdered His Roomate

Forcing psychotics to take drugs against their will is not a great plan, however it’s better than the alternative of letting clearly delusional and dangerous individuals become human time bombs inside...

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“Elected” official receives zero votes and “wins”; The people have spoken

I can see getting just one vote, but to run for office and fail to even get your own vote? Joe Selle was running unopposed for City Council of Ward 3, Missouri, but Selle and Ward 3’s other 34...

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Don’t think we need legal reform? Dry Cleaning “Suit” Should Change Your Mind

Man files $67 million lawsuit for a lost pair of pants. Targets Korean Immigrants Just Trying to Make a Living. The really, really scary thing is that the lunatic plaintiff in this non-case is a judge....

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Woman responsible for “providing personal, social and academic support” to...

Sabrina Walker, 37, is a high school counselor and whose job is to help kids navigate the difficult choices they have to make in life. It is hard to imagine a less qualified individual as she possesses...

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King/Drew Sequel; Woman Dies on Floor While Janitor Sweeps Around Her

King/Drew supporter Maxine Waters Two years ago we wrote about the fiscal and medical disaster called King/Drew hospital: In the latest inspection of the hospital, federal officials cited several...

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Math sucks, so let’s make math students hate their lives

Yeah, that’ll help em learn. At least that seems to be the theory of Social Justice Math. Dedicated to integrating issues of social and economic justice into math instruction with questions like: Using...

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HelloRocky on Dodd

The folks behind the always funny HelloRocky.com have adopted an investigative journalism slant and hit a bulls-eye with this piece on Senator Dodd and the “Friends of Angelo”: The pompous dunderbutt...

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Create a Wishlist and Get Sued By A-Holes

An Open Letter to Channel Intelligence: In conflict to your patent, Independent Sources has created a wishlist: 1. Patent Reform to stop idiots like you from abusing a broken process. 2. Tax Reform so...

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So let’s get this right – We want to punish the wealth creators but let pro...

Good Plan!! Looking at the NY Times this morning and I see an article entitled “Administration Seeks Increase in Oversight of Executive Pay”. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will call for...

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