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The short answer is at least four: three in California and one in Florida.  They are stolen from Michigan, Indiana, Utah, and Montana. This isn’t about any given member of Congress advocating any particular point of view.  It is just simple math.  The number of members of the House of Representatives is set by law at 435.  After each Census these 435 seats are divided up among the States based on their population.  Here is the US Census Bureau page explaining how: http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/apportionment/computing.html Illegal aliens are counted in the US Census and they count toward the number of Representatives each...

I found this to be the single best response to the Clinton Impeached Over Sex Crowd. If you want to be polite about it you can preface it with, "To borrow a turn of phrase from Clinton's election campaign..." otherwise just look them in the eyes and say "It's the Perjury Stupid." Very gratifying experience. Thought it might be useful to pass on given the Impeach Bush nonsense that's on the rise. It seems the Clinton Impeachment comparisons always follow.

I looked at the plan on their website on Monday and went back to reference something today and it is gone. Just thought it was interesting.

Dear Senator Dole: I tend to think of myself as an individual with rather grand wants and fairly modest, even meager, expectations.  I firmly believe the Federal government has no business being involved in public education, yet I am willing to accept wasting billions of federal tax payer dollars on an education system whose problems are entirely the result of policy and utterly unrelated to levels of funding.  The Second Amendment is of vital importance to me, but I am willing to accept the status quo of the trampled rights of law abiding citizens.  There are a number of issues...

An ACT of the Legislature (for I cannot call it a law) contrary to the great first principles of the social compact, cannot be considered a rightful exercise of legislative authority. The obligation of a law in governments established on express compact, and on republican principles, must be determined by the nature of the power, on which it is founded. A few instances will suffice to explain what I mean. A law that punished a citizen for an innocent action, or, in other words, for an act, which, when done, was in violation of no existing law; a law that...

This is a site with a petition to take back the September 11th memorial site. From their press conference: "Good afternoon. My name is Bill Doyle and I am the Director of the Doyle 9/11 Support Group. My son, Joey was killed in the September 11th attacks on our nation. I’m honored to be here today, to stand up with my fellow family group leaders to appeal to the American public with one voice to Take Back the Memorial. We’d like to begin with a moment of silence to reflect on the memory of our murdered loved ones. Fourteen victims...

...Why is the filibuster allowed in the Senate but not in the House of Representatives? The answer is that the filibuster did indeed once have a home in the House. That it doesn't anymore is a tribute to a 19th-century Republican hero: Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine. If he is recalled at all today, it is because of the memorable nickname his enemies fastened to him in the wake of Reed's successful abolition of the filibuster in the House: "Czar." ... The primary weapon of the minority was the so-called "silent quorum" or "silent filibuster." Under the House rules...

The whole speech is worth reading. For those reading "Men in Black" it is a great example of just how far back the original intent fight goes. Mostly I posted it for the last section where Lincoln talks about trumped up accusations during election cycles-- that really is an old playbook the RATS are using. In his speech last autumn, at Columbus, Ohio, as reported in "The New-York Times," Senator Douglas said: "Our fathers, when they framed the Government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now." (On the wrong side...

My mother is a teacher and has started working on her Masters Degree. One of her courses is on Family Therapy and she has to plot out her extended family as part of the course work. "Family Themes" was one of things she needed to write down so she asked me for ideas about some of our family themes. I started to look through her textbook to get a better idea of exactly what they wanted. Here is just some of what I found: The Expanded Family Life Cycle Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives Third Edition Edited by Betty Carter...

I have started a one man campaign to rename ADD "Aquired Discipline Disorder." I'm also calling ADHD "Aquired Discipline Homefront Disorder" unless I think of something better. My sister is a teacher and she has a student who asks questions at least every thirty seconds for at least half of the class. She isn't isn't allowed to tell him to hold his questions because it isn't bad behavior--- he has a disability. My mom is also a teacher and she was talking about how some parents are trying to get their kids diagnosed with ADD so they can get to...

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge August 12, 1919 on The League of Nations I am as anxious as any human being can be to have the United States render every possible service to the civilization and the peace of mankind. But I am certain that we can do it best by not putting ourselves in leading strings, or subjecting our policies and our sovereignty to other nations. The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves, but to the world, than any single possession. Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past;...

A friend of mine sent me this email: I can't believe it, unbiased reporting from the BBC. I used to belong to 1/8 Marines back in 1985. GET SOME!!!!!!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/news_web/video/40566000/bb/40566639_bb_16x9.asx

To: U.S. Congress Friday November 12 2004 U.S.Marines were fired upon by snipers and insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades from a mosque and an adjacent building. The Marines returned fire with tank shells and machine guns. They eventually stormed the mosque, killing 10 insurgents and wounding five others, and showing a cache of rifles and grenades for journalists. The Marines told the pool reporter that the wounded insurgents would be left behind for others to pick up and move to the rear for treatment. But Saturday, another squad of Marines found that the mosque had been reoccupied by insurgents and...

The Streisand quote refers to the Sedition Act of 1798. Here is an excerpt and a link to the whole act. That if any person shall write, print, utter. Or publish, or shall cause ... to be written, printed, uttered or published, ... scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, ... with intent to defame the said government, ... or the said President, or to bring them. ... into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them ... the hatred of the good people of the United States... http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/sedact.html

We all know the exit polls were dead wrong. They had Kerry winning Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina not to mention every swing state. Aren't all these statistics about X% of voters claiming morality was their main priority or Y% of Catholics voted for Kerry, etc just the internals of the these same atrociously wrong exit polls? Why are we still seeing these results quoted as authoritative? (rhetorical) You can take every article by some pundit who's told us who we are based on those internals and deposit it in the nearest parakeet cage. Because these exit polls were...

2000 2004 Difference State Bush Gore Nader Bush Kerry Nader Bush Kerry Nader Alabama 941,173 692,611 18,323 1,174,278 691,830 6,777 233,105 (781) (11,546) Alaska 167,398 79,004 28,747 151,498 85,819 3,884 (15,900) 6,815 (24,863) Arizona 781,652 685,341 45,645 879,202 705,986   97,550 20,645 (45,645) Arkansas 472,940 422,768 13,421 564,180 458,233 5,976 91,240 35,465 (7,445) California 4,567,429 5,861,203 418,707 4,403,495 5,427,055   (163,934) (434,148) (418,707) Colorado 883,748 738,227 91,434 1,011,378 883,021 11,269 127,630 144,794 (80,165) Connecticut 561,094 816,015 64,452 686,923 847,666 12,708 125,829 31,651 (51,744) Delaware 137,288 180,068 8,307 164,807 191,870 2,050 27,519 11,802 (6,257) DC 18,073 171,923 10,576 19,007 183,876...

California farmers applaud Bush’s ethanol decision Issue Date: June 20, 2001 By Robyn Rutger Evans Managing Editor In an action supported by farm groups, the Bush administration said last week it will hold California to federal oxygen standards for gasoline, which paves the way for sales of crop-based ethanol. Gov. Gray Davis had sought an exemption from the Clean Air Act, which requires that automotive gasoline contain an oxygenate in order to reduce air pollution. Davis argued that refiners have developed cleaner-burning gasolines that do not need any type of oxygen additive. President George W. Bush, however, rejected Davis’...

This is for anyone needing a good laugh, a good rant, something to email to ruin a liberal's day or just a distraction to ease the pre-election nerves. Hope you enjoy. How I first received this ridiculous email starts with a wedding. I was happy for my sister when she was getting married… right up until I found out that the reception was in Chappaqua and that my brother-in-law’s friends from France were coming. Think about that—a wedding in Chappaqua with French people. I have a history of good natured humorous debates with one of my sister’s liberal friends, Aileen....

One day in 1888, Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was astonished to find his own obituary in the morning paper. It was actually his brother who had died, but Nobel was shocked to see that he was described as the “Dynamite King” and a merchant of death. Determined to leave a better legacy behind, Nobel rewrote his will to award a portion of the interest from his estate annually to the person who had done "the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for the holding and promotion...