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  • The Bike Laws

    —Young Philly Politics

    As we all know by now, Councilmen Kenney and DiCicco have decided that the city needs new laws to regulate bicycles. These proposed regulations include:

    1) That not only must you register your bikes- for a 20 dollar fee- but you must have a license plate on that bike;
    2) Riding [...]

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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:39pm EST
    by Dan U-A

  • Something to Remember

    —Booman Tribune

    The Republican governors got together in some god-forsaken place called Lost Pines, Texas, to discuss their collective futures and the prospects for winning more state houses in the November 2010 elections. Adam Nagourney was there, and he wrote about it. AdNags was most impressed by the lack of emphasis on [...]
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    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 2:16pm EST

  • Selling Reform

    —Booman Tribune

    If I can leap ahead a bit here, in anticipation of Harry Reid actually passing health care reform (something that is far from assured), the Democrats are going to have to defend their votes for this bill, while the Republicans will have to defend their votes against it. Because a [...]
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    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 2:16pm EST

  • Shorter Richard Burr, NC Senator (R)

    —Booman Tribune

    They should have shot Khalid Sheik Mohammed execution style in the back of his head and dumped his body in a canal and spared us all the national security risks posed by Article III and the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution. [...]
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    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 2:16pm EST

  • Ott on Running for Office

    —Pawatercooler.com

    Scott Ott (Scrappleface, Wash Examiner, PJTV) was recently interviewed by Michael Koolidge about Ott’s narrowly lost campaign for Lehigh County Executive. Go listen. There’s a lot to absorb in this 26 minute interview, but what I found most interesting and enlightening was “Don’t believe the conventional wisdom.” [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:58pm EST
    by Joe Collins

  • Uh Oh

    —Suburban Guerrilla

    Number of comments: 2

    I doubt this can be contained for long:

    Scientists in Norway have identified a mutated form of the swine flu virus that is raising concern because it was found in two patients who died of the flu and a third who was severely ill with the disease, officials announced Friday.

    In [...]

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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:10am EST
    by Susie

  • Pray for Obama ... To Die?

    —Lehigh Valley Somebody

    Number of comments: 11
    Oh, isn't this just adorable: a teddy bear that encourages children to pray for our President. To die. Right-Wing Christian Conservatives are urging people to "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8" with bumper stickers, t-shirts, mugs, and even teddy bears. Such amazing grace Christian sentiment, and' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:45am EST
    by Mrs. Dottie

  • Talking Sense on Sarah

    —Pawatercooler.com

    Excellent piece by Jonah Goldberg over at the National Review on the subject of Palinophobia. He makes a lot of sense. I particularly liked this line: [S]ome of us will always be sympathetic to Mrs. Palin if for nothing else than her enemies. The bile she extracts from her critics is [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:30am EST
    by DB Light

  • This Day In History

    —Pawatercooler.com

    Today is “Universal Children’s Day”, officially so designated in 1954 by the U. N. This is not to be confused with “International Children’s Day” sponsored by UNICEF which comes in December, nor the other “International Children’s Day” which comes in June, nor with “National Child’s Day” which President Bush established [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:41am EST
    by DB Light

  • REVISIONIST HISTORY

    —CasablancaPA



    Last Saturday, Associated Press reporter Mark Levy put together an interesting post-Republican bonus indictment news item. Levy obtained quotes ranging from the top of the GOP caucus heap like Republican House Leader Sam Smith to the bottom of the barrel like State Representative [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:26am EST

  • Tom Coburn Told To Shove It

    —Booman Tribune

    Senator Tom Coburn made a big fuss (stink) the other day when he threatened to read the entire health care reform bill on the floor of the Senate, a process that likely would have taken 34 hours of valuable debate time on health care reform for little if any purpose [...]
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    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 8:47am EST

  • Message to PAGOP, Go Right!!

    —page13news

    Here's a great article by Lisa Mossie (Blufftooi/PAWaterCooler) on why conservatism and GOP success isn't just a national need; the formula works locally too.

    Lisa points out, when the state and local GOP stray from conservative candidates because of a fear of "extremist" labels being assigned to them,' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:07am EST

  • Penny Wise, Grant Foolish

    —molovinsky on allentown


    When the monster, aka Allentown Parking Authority, tutored Lanta about grants, they destroyed Hamilton Street in the process. Lanta was able to harvest a federal grant and provide the last portion of the financing necessary to built the terminal/parking deck at 6th and Linden Streets in [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:17am EST

  • Challenger for Carney

    —Gort42


    Dan Hirschorn of pa2010.com is reporting that Synder County Republican Commissioner Malcolm Derk is looking to take on Congressman Chris Carney in the PA 10th Congressional District next year and will make a decision next month.

    It's surprising that the GOP is having [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:40am EST

  • 5 on 4

    —The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat

    So I saw this here picture in the P-G

    and I said to myself, "Self: which of those councilpersons have universities or large numbers of university students residing in their districts and are also going to be in office come January?"

    The answer didn't' [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:42pm EST

  • Obama Gets To Work On Submissive Urination Problem

    —DotPenn

     


     

    President has bow movement in front of Japanese Emperor

    President Barack Obama may not be getting many more invitations from foreign governments after an embarrassing display of submissiveness in front of the Japanese emperor and a delegation of Chinese technocrats.

    Members of the Obama team say he's' [...]

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:02pm EST

  • Serious Question

    —Booman Tribune

    Did you see this shit? It doesn't get much weirder. I wonder if people were unknowingly riding their Lithuanian horses in the ring around the secret CIA prison. And 'prefabricated pods' sounds like something out of Star Trek.' [...]
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    Fetched: November 19, 2009, 10:18pm EST

  • VIDEO OF THE WEEK 11/19/09

    —Fun with Politics

    To be fair, I haven't seen the update of "V" either. I did see the original when it aired, though. The part where that woman unhinges her jaw and swallows a guinea pig? Maaaan! Thinking back on it, I still feel that disorienting sensation of being simultaneously terrified and strangely' [...]

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:40pm EST

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