Archive for March, 2006

An Embarassment to All Seans Everywhere

Filed under Media

What little respect I had for Sean Hannity went out the window with this incident with Alec Baldwin.
“Alec Baldwin v. Sean Hannity in Radio Donnybrook” [via Little Miss Attila]
UPDATE: Patrick at Badger Blogger has audio of Sean Hannity’s side of the story. He tries all he wants but he doesn’t sound positive at all. But […]

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Sean Penn’s Coulter Hatred

Filed under Culture

Like Sean Penn I’m not a fan of Ann Coulter, but I don’t possess an Ann Coulter doll where I burn her “some funny places.” I’ll leave that to the flaky actor.
“Penn has Torture Doll” [via RWN]

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A Quibble with a Quibble

Filed under Wisconsin

In Daniel Suhr’s round-up of coverage of Scott Walker’s exit from the governor’s race he quotes TAM and gripes against “some (self-righteous) finger-waving at Mark Green” with regards to my complaint with Rep. Mark Green’s ethanol stance.
Later on he doesn’t think Green will campaign to the middle now that he won’t have a primary opponent. […]

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Sullivan Attacks Former First Lady

Filed under Politics

Andrew Sullivan extends his Bush bashing to former First Lady Barbara Bush. She directed a portion of a donation to a Hurricane Katrina relief fund to be used to buy educational software from her son Neil Bush’s company Ignite Learning. That has “forced” Sullivan to dub Barbara “Marie Antoinette.” How is this different from Bush […]

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Kane’s Bait-and-Switch

Filed under Wisconsin

First, Eugene Kane wants certain members of the Wisconsin blogosphere to “Get some backbone or get out of the blogosphere.” He complained about some webloggers (i.e. Jessica McBride) who don’t allow comments. Ironic from a pathetic excuse of a weblogger who doesn’t have weblog comments of his own (start griping to your employer if it’s […]

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Censuring for Dollars

Filed under Politics

Sen. Feingold isn’t the only Senator to use a Bush censure as a pretense for political fundraising.

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Patriot Act

Filed under Sports

There’s someone in Vegas counting all the money they made for betting that George Mason would make it to the Final Four.
They have the coolest econ program in the country. I’m jumping on their bandwagon.
“George Mason Is a Giant-Killer”
[photo via Flickr]

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Mission Accomplished

Filed under Wisconsin

Sen. Russ Feingold wanted attention to “force” him to run for President in 2008. So he decided President Bush needs to be censured. He did this without talking to any fellow Democrats. It wasn’t a part of an overall strategy to weaken the President. It was self-promotion. Well, it worked:
A Newsweek poll taken March 16-17 […]

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Instant Hockey Classic

Filed under Sports

If you can find it turn on the Wisconsin-Cornell hockey game. They’ve played an entire game and two overtimes and still haven’t scored. This has become an instant classic.
UPDATE: Wisconsin wins with a third overtime goal by Jack Skille. They move onto the Frozen Four in Milwaukee in less than two weeks where they will […]

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Rahman Safe for Now

Abdul Rahman will not face charges for converting to Christianity, but he is still not safe. He could be charged later when prosecutors get more evidence, or more likely, someone angry at Rahman’s apostasy will kill him.
I am disappointed with the Bush administration’s tepid reactions to Rahman’s plight. Condi Rice saying we need “to be […]

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New FEC Rules on Online Political Speech

Filed under Weblogging

The FEC’s proposed regulations of online political speech do not look too draconian:
The Federal Election Commission last night released proposed new rules that leave almost all Internet political activity unregulated except for the purchase of campaign ads on Web sites.
“My key goal in this rule-making has been to make sure that the commission establish clear […]

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Some Advice for the Immigration Demonstrators

Filed under Politics

To those who don’t want tougher federal laws on illegal immigration, like the thousands who demonstrated in Los Angeles, I have some advice:

Ditch the Mexican flags. You came to the U.S. because of better opportunites. By protesting tougher immigration laws you tell everyone you don’t want to leave. You will get much more sympathy if […]

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Silence Blocks Finding Missing Boys

Filed under Wisconsin

News about the two missing Milwaukee boys hasn’t been found on TAM because I didn’t have anything to add that you couldn’t find in the newspaper or on television. Now, the story has gotten interesting along with being tragic:
Police now believe people who know something about two missing Milwaukee boys are withholding information that could […]

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Walker Calls it Quits

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It will be Rep. Mark Green versus Gov. Jim Doyle this fall. Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker bowed out of the race citing a failure to reach fundraising goals:
“I give my full support and endorsement to my friend Mark Green,” Walker said in a speech prepared for a 5th Congressional District audience at the Country […]

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Conservative Weblogger Doesn’t Last a Week

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Ben Domenech didn’t last a week as a weblogger for washingtonpost.com. It wasn’t the bile-spewing Left or Intelligent Design critics that got him. It was his past. This post at Obsidian Wings is pretty damning. Such criticism must have been damning to Domenech. He resigned.
Lefty webloggers may want his head on their trophy wall. If […]

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