Archive for the 'California' Category
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
CBS News says Yes:
The more Waters talked, the worse it got. These are the very people who think they are better equipped to want to be entrusted with auditing the Fed. Now that’s a scary concept.
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Louisiana and Jimmy Stewart teach us why:
That this proliferation of seafood came because – rather than in spite – of the oil production rattled many environmental cages and provoked a legion of scoffers.
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
From Barron’s:
Share performance undoubtedly played a role in elevating investors’ respect for Apple, but there is plenty more than stock price behind the company’s first-place finish.
John Cregan, veteran money manager at Hotchkiss Associates, a unit of United Capital Financial Advisers, says he admires Apple because the company “is at the top of the list of [...]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Campbell fails the national security test:
Tom Campbell, who has zipped into the lead in early polls, is quite another story. During his time in the House, Campbell was one of the few Republicans with a consistent anti-Israel voting record.
Carly for California!
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Does this Judge Walker think the secret ballot is a joke?
More Prop 8 nonsense:
Take the incredibly intrusive discovery, grossly underprotective of First Amendment associational rights, that Walker authorized into the internal communications of the Prop 8 sponsors—a ruling overturned, in part, by an extraordinary writ of mandamus issued by a Ninth Circuit panel consisting entirely [...]
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
President Ronald Reagan:
Joe had worked for the federal government for half a century, but had never been within 50 yards of the Oval Office. He walked in. He saw Clark, Vice President Bush, the senior aides, and the president of the United States. He was in awe, overcome. Suddenly, this tough six-foot-four man began weeping: [...]
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Of course not, but it will be fun to watch this play out:
Regardless of the reason, the news that Yoo and Bybee will not be hounded from their profession is positive and long overdue. (The potential loss of their professional licenses has been hanging over them for well over a year.) The notion that lawyers [...]
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
And what Jack Cafferty does not mention regarding this Copenhagen boondoggle is that the conference itself is based on lies, not science.
Shameful all around.
Who will be San Francisco’s Scott Brown to replace Nancy Pelosi?
More on the lamest of excuses as well as anecdotal pseudo-science.
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• Horrible Man!
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Blessings to a beloved Cousin!
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
And MTT played a concerto with a broken wrist.
Now you know why the San Francisco Symphony regularly sells out MTT performances.
Always a treat, and always a learning experience.
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