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Posted at 1:31pm on Jul. 3, 2008 Louisiana, Texas, and Innocence

By RollingThunder

I had not intended to comment on this, but reading a story on Fox News this morning has influenced me to comment now. Last week, The Supreme Court of The United States issued its last set of opinions from its current term. One of the opinions released was Kennedy v. Louisiana. Kennedy dealt with the issue of the appropriateness of the death penalty in a child rape case.

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Posted at 8:16am on Jul. 3, 2008 Fifteen FARC Hostages Freed

By BigGator5

Did FARC let them go? Was there a gun battle that killed many? Did the Colombian government give into the terrorist's demands?

I am happy to say that none of the above took place. In fact Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's Defence Minister has hail the rescue as "an unprecedented operation. It will go down in history for its audaciousness and effectiveness."

The Colombian military tricked FARC into handing over the hostages:

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Posted at 8:01am on Jul. 3, 2008 Initiatives and Referendums are Bad; the People Unqualified to Participate

By Blue Collar Muse

A friend sent me a link to an editorial from the Hartford (CT) Courant authored by Robert Satter. Mr. Satter is a judge trial referee in Hartford Superior Court and author of "Under the Gold Dome — An Insider's Look at the Connecticut Legislature." He is also, in my opinion, a very dangerous man. He has power and influence and is using them to undermine the foundation on which our country was built.

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Posted at 7:19am on Jul. 3, 2008 Obsolete embryo killing petition close to ballot in Michigan

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

While we're talking petitions... Most of the petition talk going around the conservative blogosphere to this point has revolved around the shady effort to rewrite the constitution, and with good reason.  There's another petition floating out there though that just announced their intentions to turn in between 500,000 and 550,000 signatures by next week's Monday deadline.

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Posted at 7:45am on Jul. 2, 2008 Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

I swear, we could talk about a shocking new detail or a major new scandal out of Detroit every day for a year and we still won't have gotten to the bottom of all of the sludge (har) in the lefty Mecca.  Today it's the Ivory Tower telling us that a member of the mainstream media has been officially caught up in the mix:


According to a report by Fox 2 reporter Scott Lewis, (Fox 2 Reporter Fanchon) Stinger accompanied Detroit developer Rayford Jackson to a meeting with city councilwoman Monica Conyers in October at Southwestern Church of God in Detroit regarding a possible sludge recycling contract with Synagro Technologies Inc.

Lewis said Stinger was not at the meeting to report the story. It's unclear why Stinger attended the meeting.

The FBI is currently investigating the City Council over the deal as one staff member was recently outed on videotape accepting payoffs.  Conyers appears to be at the center of the investigation, her longtime A-Team political consultant Sam Riddle no longer in her employ for unspecified reasons offering up tasty morsels like this, maybe the funniest heartbreaking truism I've read in months...

"The only difference between Detroit and Third World nations in terms of corruption is that there are no goats in the streets in Detroit."

Ouch.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 6:07pm on Jul. 1, 2008 Did You Even Know there is a "Black National Anthem?"

By rightwingscottie

Did you even know there was a Black National Anthem that is different from the Star Spangled Banner? A controversy is breaking out in Denver as a singer, Rene Martin, was introduced to the crowd at Mayor John Hickenlooper's State of the City address to sing the national anthem. What she sang was "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson, sometimes referred to as the Black National Anthem. Words here: http://www.black-network.com/anthem.htm

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Posted at 7:48am on Jul. 1, 2008 When the Democrats get control the voters get Detroit

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

I was born and raised in Grand Rapids.  This is my home.  I love it here.  I've had opportunities to move to Lansing, to head out to Washington, D.C., but none of that excites me.  For years I'd commute 75 minutes each way to work (back when gas was under $2 a gallon, thank heavens) and when it came time to buy my first house I didn't look anywhere else.  

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Posted at 7:35am on Jul. 1, 2008 Will the Circle be Unbroken, Part I -Eminent Domain Comes to TN

By Blue Collar Muse

What Circle? 23 Music Circle East - Nashville, TN to be precise. And broken may be the kindest way to describe what the owner of the business at that address faces. Shattered, decimated, mercilessly hounded into oblivion all come to mind to describe what Joy Ford, owner of Country International Records (CIR), is facing at the hands of Nashville's Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA).

For almost 30 years, Ford and her late husband Sherman, have operated one of the first studios on what would become Music Row at that address. While much of the rest of the Row has gone corporate with multi-million dollar facilities, CIR remains privately owned. This earns CIR the classification of an Independent label or "Indie" as it's known in the trade. Usually reserved for recent entries into the field who don't have the juice to or don't want to compete with the big boys, in the case of CIR, it's deceptive. Joy and Sherman Ford were making music, writing songs, developing artists and cutting tracks at Country International Records long before many of the current Music Row elite were born. The walls of Ford's business are filled with pictures of the legends she's personally worked with. Stars like George Jones, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Tracy Lawrence, Tim McGraw and more.

If government has anything to say about it, that won't be true much longer. Chas Sisk at The Tennessean, who has covered the story since March, reports,

Read on . . .

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Posted at 2:00pm on Jun. 30, 2008 Re: Jindal Vetoes Pay Raise

By Ben Domenech

Neil, I - like many of our readers - have enjoyed the Club for Growth blog's (and particularly their Communications Director's) evenhanded, charitable, and unbiased coverage of Gov. Bobby Jindal over the past several months. I can hardly contain my eagerness to read their nine separate posts detailing the political courage of Gov. Jindal's decision, as he now risks the success of his entire reform agenda within the state legislature on this one point, standing up to members of his own party. I am sure it will only rival their excellent coverage of his school choice plan, his total overhaul of the state ethics laws, his business tax cuts, etc.

Perhaps - bless my soul - they'll even speak about him using the same vocabulary they reserve for that magnanimous god among men, Mark Sanford. Ah, but the heart flutters as I type his name!

Posted at 7:54am on Jun. 30, 2008 It Isn't the Fourth Just Yet

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

I know more than usual everyone's starting off the week looking forward to Friday and who can blame any of us?  July 4th has always been one of my favorite days of the year.  I have an aunt and uncle (and cousins) who live out on Lake Bella Vista in Rockford and they always host my mom's side of the family on the fourth for swimming, tubing, a bbq, pick-up basketball, hot-tubbing, you name it.  And God bless them, that's not an easy task.  I'm the eldest of ten myself and my mom's number ten of twelve.  Most of her siblings also have more than a handful of kids.

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Posted at 7:52am on Jun. 30, 2008 'The Next Right' Banned in Denver for "Bad Reputation"

By Blue Collar Muse

One thing I love about my job is that I get to travel. Over the last couple of months I've been in Plains States and Mountain States. One of the prettiest and friendliest places I've visited is Denver, CO. Not only are the people great but the Downtown 16th Street Walking Mall and LoDo are fantastic, the capitol is beautiful and the mountains are, of course, exquisite!

Even Denver International Airport (DIA) is cool with its stylized snowcapped mountain peaks and all. One of the best features of DIA, however, is free WiFi at the airport! So far, DIA is the largest airport I've found providing that service and all one need do is watch a commercial or two and endure a permanent banner ad. I'll gladly pony up that price for the ability to work and surf while waiting on my flight. Plus, after the ordeal of TSA screening, it seems somehow proper I should get a reward for being a good boy. But am I really all that good? Opinions seem to vary.

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Posted at 11:45pm on Jun. 28, 2008 Another Defaulted Smear Attempt

By breeanneh

In the latest effort to spin the McCains as out of touch, Newsweek has dug up an overdue property tax bill owned by a trust overseen by Mrs. McCain.

Nevermind that they also reported an elderly aunt of Mrs. McCain’s is living in the condo. Nevermind as well that the report says the post office was returning the bills and the bank that manages the trust has not been receiving them. Clearly, it’s just another case of rich people avoiding paying what they owe. So says the MSM who are getting boringly obvious with the same default playbook.

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Posted at 9:10pm on Jun. 28, 2008 McCain in default on house in California per Newsweek

By douglash

It appears that John McCain and his wife Cindy have been delinquent in paying their property taxes on a house that they own in La Jolla, California, as reported by Newsweek.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/143775/

According to the article, they paid the bulk of the taxes yesterday, but are still delinquent for taxes going back 4 years.

This looks like it will be an embarrassing, although in my personal view temporary news item about McCain.

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Posted at 11:15am on Jun. 27, 2008 TN Democrat, Jim Cooper, Alleged to be Under FBI Investigation

By Blue Collar Muse

Remember Nancy Pelosi's comments as the Democrats took back the House in 2006? She said,

'"The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history."

The emphasis needs to be placed on the word "intend". At the time, the ability of the Democratic party to keep that promise was shown to be questionable by their handling of their own in the high profile cases of men like William Jefferson, Alcee Hastings and John Murtha.

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Posted at 8:09am on Jun. 27, 2008 So much for those spin-off jobs (things get worse in Michigan)

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Shares of General Motors Corp. plunged to their lowest price in more than 33 years, and Ford shares hit another 52-week low Thursday as analysts continued to speculate about just how bad things will get for U.S.-based automakers.

When a news cycle starts off like that (courtesy of the Oakland Press) you know you're in for a rough read over your morning coffee.  And sure enough, the hits just keep on coming.

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