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Time was, the Albany office of the Department of Motor Vehicles lived up to its stereotype: dingy, chaotic, and staffed with ornery people — or, to be fair, people probably rendered ornery by their dingy and chaotic surroundings. (more…)

On Chris Matthews’ Sunday Gaborama, an icicle of insight:

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Rep. Linda Sánchez  makes a good case for it: (more…)

The New York Times turns its beam on New York’s most powerful Congressmember today. And are they packing a  SureFire C3 Centurion or what? (more…)

Damn it’s done. The Senate overwhelmingly approved neo-FISA by a vote of 69-28.

41 votes? What the??? At least our Senators voted against it.

And so the telecoms are popping the corks, and here’s my fantasy of Pelosi and Reid explaining to us why the Fourth Amendment had to go the way of the dodo:

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The boy wonder is facing the judge:

Efraim E. Diveroli, the president of AEY Incorporated, who is now 22 — was expected to enter a plea today in federal court in Miami, The Associated Press reports. He faces charges of fraud and making false statements to the United States Army in the course of procuring munitions for the government.  (more…)

Richard Cohen hits the nail on the head today.

For too long now, the term “faith-based” has been synonymous with dumb. It’s dumb to speak of Islam as if the terrorists are its true representatives (F. Graham). It’s dumb to think the Holocaust was God’s way of getting the Jews to return to Israel (Hagee) or that Catholics are not true Christians (Hagee, again) or that “Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world” (Parsley). (more…)

For the record, Barack Obama appears still capable of taking an actual stand on something. The text of his letter to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club in California. (more…)

It seems this is the outrage of the weekend:

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Bill O’Reilly’s racism is so apparently unselfconscious that you would think he spent his formative years with Archie Bunker and his ilk, rather than the denizens of Harvard Square.  (more…)