The closer Washington gets to the labor day break, the more stories like this become news: Playboy ’s Hugh Hefner has a pet congresswoman, and now a tweet about a private fundraising lunch at the Playboy Mansion with California Rep.
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Hugh Hefner, Rep. Loretta Sanchez, the NRCC, the Playboy Mansion, and Twitter
The loathesome ex-House Speaker, who has been singularly awful on the Ground Zero mosque issue, reaches down into the septic tank for more : “I think the Congress has the ability to declare the area a national battlefield memorial because I think we should think of the World Trade Center as a battlefield site; this is a war,” he said And if that fails, he said, the state government should step in and use its considerable power to stymie the development.
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Gingrich: Use Government Power to Trample Property Rights of Muslims
Last Sunday night , police in Morganton, North Carolina shot and killed 17-year-old Michael Sipes.
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Noise Complaint Leads to Police Shooting, Killing 17-Year-Old
* Meg Whitman proves that a smart person can always get out of jury duty, is dismissed after five-hour ordeal.
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California Roundup: Teachers Union Warns of Technopocalypse Under New Obama Admin. Testing Plan
I was struck by British Defense Minister Liam Fox’s description of the new Medal of Honor video game set in Afghanistan. He called it “thoroughly un-British,” a phrase that presumably refers to something more than the game’s country of origin
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Why Is ‘Un-British’ Bad?
Only time will tell if Operation Iraqi Freedom was a blunder, writes Cathy Young. But it is not too early to say that Americans are not the villains in this story. As Young explains, that role belongs to the dictator who drove so many of his subjects to welcome a foreign invasion, and to the extremists who unleashed carnage on their own.
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New at Reason: Cathy Young on the Legacy of the Iraq War
In today’s Washington Post , Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, explain why their groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s policy of “targeted killing” for suspected terrorists. Romero and Warren say targeted killing can be justified 1) on the battlefield as part of an armed conflict (in Afghanistan, for example) or 2) outside of an armed conflict “as a last resort and in the face of a truly imminent threat to life.” But Obama’s policy, based on the view (also espoused by his predecessor) that the entire world is a battlefield in the War on Terror/War on Al Qaeda, gives the executive branch carte blanche to kill people it unilaterally identifies as members or supporters of Al Qaeda, including U.S
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Challenging Obama’s License to Kill
Here’s Jill Lawrence at Politics Daily : After talking to five economists, I can give you the bottom line: Spending the money differently probably wouldn’t have changed our circumstances much. But the economists took diverse paths to that conclusion, and they have varying opinions about where to go from here…
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It’s Not the Size of the Stimulus.
Ring in Labor Day with this news: The U.S. shed another 54,000 jobs in August, slightly advancing the 9.6 percent unemployment rate
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The Summer of Recovery Is Over; The Fall of the Economy Is Here
It’s Friday and I’ll get to the litany of was-the-stimulus-too-small-dammit stories every bit as stale as the donut I just ate in a bit. But first, as the MDA Labor Day Telethon descends upon the nation like the Sphinx upon Thebes, a word from Jerry Lewis regarding America’s biggest threat to domestic tranquility. By which I mean Lindsay Lohan: “I’d smack her in the mouth if I saw her,” he offered the interviewer when asked what he’d do if he saw Lohan.
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Jerry Lewis Wants to Spank Lindsay Lohan
