President Obama, Wanda, Press Correspondents
Funny? Not Funny? You Decide.
And don’t forget Colbert’s legendary speech a couple years ago:
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New Yorker Book Club and Impluse Buying
Saturday’s Impulse Shopping:
Yesterday I was reading a friend’s copy of the Nation, and I started feeling guilty about not subscribing to some of my favorite magazines and thereby contributing to their decline and demise. I browsed their websites determined to spend at least some of my stimulus money propping up quality journalism.
I discovered that, yes, [...]
DC Voting Rights: Ken Starr Edition
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While the DC Voting Rights Act is stalled in the House due to the unfortunate gun amendment. I came across (via Rober Schlesinger) this editorial in The Utah Standard-Examiner by Ken Starr and Viet Dinh. Seems that even with the Prop 8 oral arguments only recently passed, Starr and his Patriot [...]
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Thank you Rober Schlesinger.
Voting rights for District of Columbia residents has become a gun rights issue thanks to the NRA. Senate leaders did leave the opportunity open for them. I suppose it’s not that unbelievable that politicians and lobbyists would play politics with the rights of DC’s nearly 600,000 residents.
NPR, did some nice reporting on [...]
DC Voting Rights Act: Update
The DC Voting Rights Legislation which would give the district a long sought after vote in Congress appears to be at an impasse in The House of Representatives thanks to the gun amendment passed by the Senate last week.
“D.C. leaders hoped that provision would not be included in the House version, but the National [...]
DC Voting Rights Act: Here we go again
The DC Voting Rights Act of 2009 passed the Senate in amended form on February 26, 2009. It’s up for a vote in the House this week according to a statement by House Majority Leader Stacy Hoyer. The bill turns Washington DC into a Congressional district and provides it with a voting member in the [...]
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