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Not every rally has to take place in Washington or New York City to be worthwhile. This is very good, especially in Rep. Jim Walsh’s home turf. Walsh is facing a stiff challenge in 2008 after a close re-election in 2006. Such things can focus one marvelously.

photo by Al Campanie / The Post-Standard. More photos here.

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On September 21st Governor Spitzer announced that immigrants would be able to get New York State driver’s licenses.

Well, either it’s been a slow summer or the Governor has apparently proposed the most reckless thing ever. The biomass is indeed encountering the cooling system.

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When I was three years old, so I am told, I inquisitively stuck a pair of tweezers into an electrical outlet. I never did that again.

Do we New Yorkers elect and re-elect tweezer pokers to the United States Senate? At times I wonder. (more…)

1957: President Eisenhower sends in the 101st Airborne to Little Rock after Gov. Orval Faubus defied an order to integrate the school.

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Let’s put two things together, and see if you get what I get.

From the Boston Globe, this:

WASHINGTON - The Army’s top officer, General George Casey, told Congress yesterday that his branch of the military has been stretched so thin by the war in Iraq that it can not adequately respond to another conflict - one of the strongest warnings yet from a military leader that repeated deployments to war zones in the Middle East have hamstrung the military’s ability to deter future aggression. (more…)

Oh, no. Have we come to this?

• MoveOn said General Betray Us.
• Rush Limbaugh said phony soldiers.
• Congress said bad MoveOn!
• Blogs and Democrats say bad Rush!
• Pee Wee Herman said “I know you are, but what am I?”
• Francis said “I know you are, but what am I?”

I have an idea. Instead of blasting away at Rush, let’s take him at his word. He’s entitled to his opinion, and we can all learn something from it. (more…)

In a 60-39 vote to proceed to adoption, the Senate approved the Kennedy amendment which adds sexual orientation, gender identity and disability to the existing hate crimes legislation.  (more…)

A 2005 article in Lancet (lancetarticle.pdf) raised serious questions about the humaneness of lethal injection as a form of execution. It suggested that condmned prisoners could be dying in agony while paralyzed — their anguish thus going unnoticed.

The Supreme Court has agreed to review the consitutionality of lethal injection.  (more…)

From the NY Times:

 WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — Facing pressure from religious groups, civil libertarians and members of Congress, the federal Bureau of Prisons has decided to return religious materials that had been purged from prison chapel libraries because they were not on the bureau’s lists of approved resources. (more…)

Yesterday the vote to expand SCHIP passed the House of Representatives without enough Republican support to overcome President Bush’s promised veto. The vote was 265-159, with 45 Republicans supporting the bill. It would take 289 votes to override the president’s veto. 

So how did our New York delegation vote? Everyone except Randy Kuhl and Tom Reynolds voted for SCHIP. Now Kuhl’s “NAY” vote should not surprise anyone, but a big “NAY NAY” from Tom Reynolds? Hmmm….. remember this?

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