Consider this:
Congress Close on "Cash for Clunkers"So, just how may old cars can I buy from people for less than $4,500 to trade in for a new car? And, are these vouchers stackable? Who thinks I can get a Mercedes in exchange for a dozen Darts, T-1000s, and Pintos ( Read more... )

Well, score one for Christianist activist judges. The Supreme Court decided against the Summum congregation, ruling that the city of Pleasant Grove City, Utah can exclude the group's gift of a monument from the park.

Adam B has the rundown of the decision. While this was litigated as a free speech issue, we all knew it was more about freedom of ( Read more... )

From NPR:

Court Weighs Religious Monuments, Public Parks

The money quote, from Chief Justice Roberts:

You're just picking your poison, aren't you? The more you say it's government speech, the more it seems to me you're just walking into the religion trap. What is the government doing ... supporting the Ten Commandments?I'm really pulling for the ( Read more... )

Today's NY Times has a fascinating story of a conflict between the city of Pleasant Grove City, Utah and a small religious group there who follow a faith called "Summum ( Read more... )

With the whole "sweeping mandate" thing that seems to be coming along with Barack Obama's victory, I thought that it was worth a look at what the "conservative" set had to say about things. Seems they're being more quiet than typical, but the folks at Redstate don't stop writing ( Read more... )

I am glad to have been proven wrong.

I can now only hope that Obama does a good job as President. He certainly can't do much worse.

Two "big" things, and then a bunch of "smaller" bullet points ( Read more... )

The U.S. House of Representatives just passed a bill that should hold back the Alternative Minimum tax for next year, assuming that it passes the Senate largely intact and gets signed ( Read more... )

Gail Collins nails it.

However, although Spitzer has been in New York politics for years and years, I never ever heard a single person say, “What if it turns out he’s paying for $1,000-an-hour call girls with wire transfers - you know, like the ones he used as evidence when he was attorney general?”

Really, it never came up.You should read the ( Read more... )

Someone will bitchslap me for this.


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