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..."In 2005, Milwaukee had to jettison about 120,000 names from their lists – 120,000 names that had been on the list in 2004. Including a heck of lot of those same day registrations from November. Ya think 120,000 people all moved away in a coupla months’ time? No, a heck of a lot of those were our kind of voters. Ya know, Paully, our favorites: the fictional kind.” “How do they do it, Pockets? Is it brazen, or do they have some kind of technique?” Pockets munched on a pretzel and shrugged his shoulders. “From what I hear, they use...

If this wasn’t so serious, it would almost be funny. Illinois Congresswoman, Melissa Bean, hosted a public townhall meeting and brought her own thugs to act as the “Question Police.” Each time someone persistently asked a question, a large bald man would make his way across the room and stand threateningly over the person asking the question. Repeatedly the Congresswoman and her thugs insisted the cameras be turned off in the room- I’m sure to prevent exactly this reaction from the public. I’m so thrilled that her constituents in the audience refused to back down but I’d like to know...

Well it has been a little while since I’ve written about New Jersey’s conservative governor Chis Christie. Thankfully State House Steps has given me a new, and darn good, reason to write about the sexiest man alive… you know, politically speaking. That reason? State pension reform. How about dropping that bomb right before he goes on vacation? This is hilarious. I mean think about it… liberals have been dying for Christie to go on vacation and give them a break for a while and right as he’s about the head out the door… BOOM: Just before leaving for a two...

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks on the House floor today defending the Tea Party against attacks being hurled from Democrats: "Thomas Jefferson said, ‘When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.’ Make no mistake about it; there is fear in the air. Now, elitists in Washington, D.C. would have us believe that the rising voice of the American people is based on fear, but it’s becoming evident that the real fear is coming from Democrat elitists here in Washington who realize...

Greta Perry linked this article from Business Insider on Facebook last night that states nearly every cleanup worker from the Exxon Valdez is now dead. Why? From the fumes? From natural causes? From chemicals? More explanation, please. This prompted me to do some digging today. I read the article, watched the video clip, and my initial reaction was, "Aww c'mon. Hyperbole. Fear mongering by CNN and their 'expert'." "Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? In a previous article we documented a number of the health dangers from this...

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Wow. The chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee is the gift that keeps on giving. With Charlie Rangel taking a 'leave of absence' which everyone but Rangel knows will eventually become permanent, the powerful chairmanship is up for grabs, with Pete Stark of California to the most senior member and therefore most likely to receive the position. Don't know Pete Stark? Well, he is the Democrat version of Jim Bunning...a kook that is often off the reservation.

At the beginning there was the desk. Actually 48 desks that New York cabinet maker Thomas Constantine made for the Senate Chamber at newly reconstructed Capitol building in 1819... n 100 years the space for books was doubled and ventilation was added to the work space as you can see from the second and third image of the evolution of the Senator’s desk. The things really got out of control at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tiny red mahogany desks were the Senate primary working space until the first Senate office building opened in 1909...There was also more...

A Facebook friend posted this 1947 wallpaper ad from Boing Boing: Ah, the good ol' days. Note the "gay patterns." Golly! Read the comments from the original. There's enough good readin' for the pro- and anti-DDT folks.