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According to our friends at Clean Cut Kid, Republicans are too ridgid to tolerate any dissent in their ranks. Well, this is how the Daily KOS, an extraordinarily popular blog, deals with a heratic among the Democrats. On a day...

The AP is reporting that the FEC has filed suit against the Club For Growth:Federal election regulators have taken a political group to court in what could serve as a test case for how the government will address complaints over...

Uh-oh: Kenner Mayor Phil Capitano suspended a top aide, Cedric Floyd, without pay on Wednesday amid an investigation into whether Floyd took more than his fair share of Hurricane Katrina relief supplies from the donation center he supervised. Police said...

The weekend featured two key elections: Germany and Afghanistan. Both involved millions of people confronting new worlds. Of the two, Germany was clearly the more backward. The Germans faced a choice between a demonstrably failed policy and a lukewarm prospect...

California Conservative

This site was ref'ed in the previous post, and the Chief took a look at the rest of it, and saw several interesting posts there, and some good writing:

Like many tourists, I was drawn to the careless fantasy that was New Orleans, reveling in the booze, food, and jazz without a second thought for tomorrow. But tomorrow always came, and once the throbbing haze of Pat O?Brien?s finally subsided, I thankfully returned to my family, career, and responsibilities.

The problem with binge fantasies is that the devil eventually shows up like a back alley loan shark to collect his fee. For some it?s monetary, while others are crippled by something akin to metal pipe across the knees. For New Orleans, the devil came in the form of Katrina, who in her own big easy form, pirouetted lazily across the Caribbean and Florida to a city where today?s troubles could always wait for tomorrow. Striking an area the size of Great Britain, Katrina displaced or drowned a population long overdue for a cold shower.

This is one that you may want to check out, at least every now and then. I know it's added to MY list - and besides, it's nice to know that there are still some conservatives to carry the torch in the land of Ronaldus Magnus Reagan.

Via Fark, here's Harriet the tortoise: Certainly the oldest inhabitant in The Crocodile Hunter's Australia Zoo on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, and surely the oldest inhabitant on the Australian continent, Harriet is a giant Galapagos land tortoise, collected by Charles Darwin...

Joe Knippenberg at No Left Turns directs us to this fine piece by Robert George on the so-called right to privacy. There is no doubt that the Constitution protects kinds of privacy rights, but it is another thing altogether to...

I bought my Acer Aspire 1690 notebook about three months ago, so I thought I'd share with you a quick impression of how the experience has been. The Good: The brilliant widescreen display still blows me away, and I now...

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