Archive for January, 2005

Remember the First Mate

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Keep Captain Ed and his family in your prayers. Ed’s wife just might be getting a new pancreas.
“Need Prayers“

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Webloggers at Heritage

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The Heritage Foundation hosted a discussion on weblogs and the media. Matthew Sheffield from RatherBiased.com, Paul Mirengoff A.K.A. Deacon of Power Line, and Kevin Aylward of Wizbang talked about Dan Rather and how the MSM is affected by weblogs. A great part of it was connecting a name to a face, especially in Kevin’s case. […]

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Weird but Yummy

Twinkie sushi. It has no rice, so it’s not really sushi, and no raw fish. It looks like sushi, and it just might taste good.
This find gives me an excuse to tell you about my experience eating a deep fried twinkie. I had it at the county fair last summer. Mine was put on a […]

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A Big Question

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Steven Taylor’s post gets to the heart of Man as a political animal. Does a universal human nature exist? Taylor writes,
This debate is fundamental to the debate between those who believe that only in a context of freedom can human beings truly flourish and those who believe that a sufficiently well crafted application of the […]

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Journal Sentinel Issues Another Yawn

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an editorial about the new local-federal investigation of voting problems. It’s about as sharp as your breakfast oatmeal. It reads like the editors had to get something out to the masses. Maybe they feel they have to keep up with talk radio and the webloggers? Within a lot of babble […]

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1305 People Shouldn’t Have Voted

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We now know how easy it was to commit vote fraud on Election Day in Milwaukee. Greg Borowski strikes again.
Milwaukee officials said Thursday that 1,305 same-day voter registration cards from the Nov. 2 election could not be processed, including more than 500 cases where voters listed no address and dozens more where no name was […]

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Feeding from the Trough

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Amy Ridenour points out that pundits and journalists aren’t the only ones who have conflicts of interest when it comes to government contracts. She writes,
Journalists aren’t special (sorry, journalists!). If you should disclose a possible conflict of interest when writing an opinion column, you sure as heck should if you are testifying before Congress.
Or, better […]

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Packers Thug Dies

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Back in the 1980s, the Green Bay Packers were dreadful, full of has-beens and never-could-bes and lead by coaches who played under Vince Lombardi. An especially lousy time was the Forrest Greg era. His teams were happy to end up 8-8. But what really marked Greg’s teams was all the thugs on them. Mossy Cade […]

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The CPAC 19

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Here are the webloggers CPAC was dumb smart enough to give press credentials to.

Ana Marie Cox, www.wonkette.com
Kevin Aylward, www.wizbangblog.com
Erick Erickson, www.redstate.org
Kevin McCullough, kmc.crosswalk.com
Robert Cox, www.thenationaldebate.com
James Joyner, www.outsidethebeltway.com
Chris Nolan, www.chrisnolan.com
Steve McCutcheon, www.ace.mu.nu
Bryan Preston, www.junkyardblog.com
Pat Hynes, www.anklebitingpundits.com
Robin Burk, www.windsofchange.net
Karol Sheinen, www.alarmingnews.com
LaShawn Barber, www.lashawnbarber.com
Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com
Laura Thomas, www.terrorismunvelied.com
Radley Balko, www.theagitator.com
Ryan Sager, www.nypost.com
Ryan Zempel, www.townhall.com

CPAC isn’t afraid […]

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Registering Vote with a Comic Book

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State Senator Joe Leibham responded to Gov. Jim Doyle’s statement that “I think we have a pretty good system… If you register at the polls, you have to show appropriate identification to show that you are who you claim to be and that you reside at the location.” I knocked him down yesterday by pointing […]

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Trials Set for Racine Voter Fraud

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Thanks to Brainpost for reminding me the Racine District Attorney is prosecuting voter fraud.
Two Milwaukee men, including one who ran for the State Assembly, await trial on charges of election fraud in Racine County.
Damien Donnelle Jones, 24, and Robert Marquis Blakely, 24, are accused of registering voters they never talked to. The two men were […]

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The Library Model

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Mayor Tom Barrett was just on Charlie Sykes Show. After talking about school choice he answered some questions from Charlie about Milwaukee’s voting problems. Charlie asked Barrett why he opposed requiring photo IDs at the polls. Barrett’s answer was concern for the creation of a “two-tier” system where Brookfield (i.e. white) students had an easier […]

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TT Memories

Ann Althouse is getting an Audi TT Coupe. She’s right, it is a beautiful car. My best memory of seeing an Audi TT was in London a few years ago. I was in one of those double-decker buses. It stopped at a red light. What pulled up next to me was a cobalt blue Audit […]

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Lack of Disclosure

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Maggie Gallagher and Howard Kurtz are in a little tussle over Kurtz’s reporting of Gallagher’s government contract. Gallagher denies being paid to promote President Bush’s marriage initiative. Kurtz told Editor & Publisher she “has seen fit to blame the messenger.”
In her defense, Gallagher claims she is being held to a new standard:
It is not uncommon […]

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Living Near Weirdness

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Tom McMahon posts on the Bunyan Muffler Man of Clinton, Wisconsin. I grew up in Hilbert, less than 10 miles away. I never heard of such a statue until this moment.

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