Did the old guard finally relent on the stringent rules about post-legislative lobbying and reporting “bundled” contributions? Good for the freshmen for sticking to their guns and shaming the rest into doing the right thing*. Prodded by Democratic leaders and by freshmen elected partly on promises to clean up Washington, the House approved new ethics …
Archives for May 2007
I Made Pro Bowl In 1981
I bet you didn’t know that I played safety for five seasons with the Pats (pro bowl!), then the Chargers and Rams. To be fair I had no idea myself until I read it on Tom Maguire’s blog. You think I would remember something like that. Treat this as an open thread.
Nerd Power
In 2003 Peter Agre won the Nobel Prize (chemistry) for discovering protein channels that allow water to pass in an out of the hydrophobic membranes of our cells. Now he wants to take on Senator Norm Coleman in Minnesota. Peter Agre wants to do something no Nobelist has done before: get elected to the U.S. …
We Live In Crazy World
Crap like this has no right to sound plausible. Go read, and then think about it for a minute. If that story was a movie not starring Mike Myers, Matt Damon or Daniel Craig I would probably walk out of it. Speaking of signs, America leads an Amnesty report detailing governments who use 1984-like fear …
The Immaculate List
The Commissar has handily assembled authoritative statements from every major official at the DOJ denying a significant role in creating the list of axed Attorneys. It just appeared one day under their noses and then some mysterious, unexplained force compelled them to act on it. I tell you, that’s pretty spooky. If it weren’t for …
I NEED A TRANSCRIPT
Of the Goodling testimony yesterday, and I can not find one anywhere. HELLLLP! Nevermind, I finally found one here, and I am ecstatic because I can finally bring to you my ABSOLUTELY favorite portion of the testimony yesterday: SANCHEZ:OK.Thank you. Before you joined the Executive Office for the U.S. Attorneys in the spring of 2005, …
More Biased Statistics
These statisticians just will not give up. Again, they continue to assault our brilliant leader, using the tools of their trade to manipulate public opinion: More than three months into a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive designed to curtail sectarian violence in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, Health Ministry statistics show that such killings are rising …