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Saturday November 17, 2012 · 6:37 PM PST

2012/11/17 · 18:37

Maybe unskewedpolls.com was a bit on the optimistic side when they predicted 359 electoral votes for Mitt Romney. But was it really their fault? They'd like you to help them find out!

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Wednesday May 04, 2011 · 9:10 AM PDT

2011/05/04 · 09:10

You read that right - an 18-year-old cheerleader at Silsbee HS in Texas was raped at a house party. One of the men involved pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of assault and was allowed to continue playing on Silsbee's basketball team. When it came time to cheer this player during a game, HS (this is how she is identified in court documents) refused to cheer, and simply remained silent. What happened next was a different kind of assault, suffered at the hands of the school district and the courts.

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Monday April 25, 2011 · 10:01 AM PDT

2011/04/25 · 10:01

Wonder of wonders, that's no longer a hypothetical question. They did make a movie of Atlas Shrugged - it opened on April 15. And even more wonderfully, no one is showing up.

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Thursday March 11, 2010 · 1:29 PM PST

2010/03/11 · 13:29

Congressman Capuano is now undecided about how he'll vote on the Senate Bill. Please help get him off the fence!

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Saturday September 20, 2008 · 6:43 AM PDT

2008/09/20 · 06:43

Instead of paying for insurance with its own funds, St. Paul insisted that the RNC pay for liability insurance covering police misconduct during the Republican Convention, in effect giving the Police Department $10 million worth of free shots at journalists and protesters.

The RNC chose Lexington Insurance, a unit of the soon-to-be-bailed-out AIG to write this policy. The bailout deal gives the federal government effective control over AIG (they've already appointed new management), and puts ultimate responsibility for claim payments to the taxpayers - us. So when Amy Goodman and the rest collect their damages, we'll be paying for this outrage.

And that's not the only problem here: if AIG wrote a lot of policies like this one, it's hard to understand why they didn't go belly up years ago - the rate was a bargain $1.1 million, and legal defense expenditures are not even included in the $10 million limit. Was it intentionally written below market price? Is the difference an illegal campaign contribution?

Cleveland Indians will play at "Progressive Field"

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Friday January 11, 2008 · 3:53 PM PST

2008/01/11 · 15:53

So what if it's named after an insurance company? There's no Conservative Field yet, at least not in the major leagues.

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Monday June 07, 2004 · 8:54 AM PDT

2004/06/07 · 08:54

When the GOP took control of the Colorado legislature they tried to overturn the districts set in 2002 (a la Texas), arguing that since they had been set by a court (the legislature missed a deadline) they had the right to redo them rather than wait until the regular decennial redistricting due in 2010. The Supreme Court today declined to hear the case, thereby upholding the districts.

An interesting dissent was filed by the usual suspects (rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas)

http://wid.ap.org/scotus/pdf/03-1082P.ZD.pdf

The dissent is consistent with their hijacking of the Presidential election in Bush v. Gore.

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