Archive for May, 2006

Bookmobile vs. the Bad Guys

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I know Reading is Fundamental but this is ridiculous.
“I Don’t Know Where to Laugh or Cry“

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Veteran Sues Michael Moore

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Michael Moore is getting sued by an Iraq War vet Peter Damon who claims the rotund director used a video clip of him without permission.
I wondered why the $85 million lawsuit was filed now. Later on in the NY Post story I have my answer:
Lawyer Dennis Lynch said he took the case last year and […]

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Candidates Pounce on Inactive Lautenschlager

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Attorney General candidate JB Van Hollen jumps on Peg Lautenschlager for being silent after Milwaukee’s violent Memorial Day Weekend:
She’s AWOL on fighting violent gun crime in Wisconsin’s largest city.
Apparently, Peg Lautenschlager is too busy suing law abiding farmers in northern Wisconsin and fighting the EPA, Department of Education and FDA to actually focus on fighting […]

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Charlie’s Show Prep #106

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No surprise from the Journal Sentinel editorial board. They think more gun laws and jobs for inner city kids will prevent murders. Suburban kids have all sorts of “connections.” I guess they’re connections if that’s what you call going down to McDonalds and applying. They don’t mention concealed carry, the culture of “stop snitchin’” and […]

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Other X-Men 3 Reviews

Filed under Culture

Steven Taylor liked it: “I thought the plot was less, well, nuanced than I would have liked, but it was enjoyable.”
Will Collier: “one hell of a good movie.”
Frequent TAM commenter DJ who didn’t like it and really hates Halle Berry as Storm.

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Thomas on Zinmeister

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Helen Thomas continued to prove she’s too old and crotchety to be at White House briefings. Here’s Thomas questioning Tony Snow about new domestic policy advisor Karl Zinsmeister:
Q Why did the President pick a man who is so contemptible of the public servants in Washington to be his Domestic Advisor — saying, “People in Washington […]

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Accused Milwaukee Cop Commits Suicide

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Officer Alfonzo Glover who was charged with “first-degree intentional homicide in the March 2005 death of Wilbert Javier Prado” posted $25,000 bail, went home, then killed himself.
Patrick at Badger Blogger and Phelony Jones wonder if District Attorney E. Michael McCann charged him to improve his standing with some in the public. This is man who […]

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WSJ Wrong on Raid

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Paul Gigot and the Wall Street Journal editorial board get it wrong for once. This time with regards to the FBI raiding Congressman William Jefferson’s office. They oppose the raid mentioning the Speech and Debate Clause multiple times. Yet they don’t explain their reasoning. They don’t even bother to quote from the constitution. Here’s the […]

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Policy Advisor Doctors Text

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Karl Zinsmeister, President Bush’s new domestic policy advisor admits he fiddled around with an interview with a news weekly and posted the edited version on his magazine’s website. Here is the original version from the Syracuse New Times, and here’s the doctored version on The American Enterprise website.
Zinsmeister told the Washington Post he edited it […]

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Paulson Nominated as Next Treasury Secretary

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John Snow resigned and President Bush nominated Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson as the new Treasury Secretary.
Snow has been the most quiet, least public Treasury Secretaries in modern times. Today, President Bush said, the Treasury Secretary is the “chief spokesman for my economic policies.” Snow’s lack of exposure (whether his fault or the White House’s) […]

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Charlie’s Show Prep #105

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UW officials used some hardball to try to get a sponsorship out of U.S. Bank.
Ricardo Pimentel and the gang think Paul Barrows is a victim.
By jacking up taxes MATC is making it easier to require the board be filled with elected people.
There may be an lost manuscript of Jane Eyre floating around. Letters indicate Charlotte […]

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Memorial Day 2006

In memoriam to all those who gave their lives to defend this nation. From the Revolutionary War to Iraq we are indebted to them.
“Bush Lays Wreath at Arlington Cemetery” [via Wizbang]

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Milwaukee’s Parks Problems

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article about the fiscal troubles with the Milwaukee parks system. Blame Tom Ament for putting county employee pensions and benefits ahead of maintaining the parks. This is how bad it’s gotten:
Consider: Though parks staffing has fallen by two-thirds since 1986, fringe benefit payments have nearly doubled the last 10 […]

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X-Men Has Great Box Office Opening

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I did my part in making X-Men 3 the second-highest opening movie of all time. It was fun with it being full of action and wild scenes that make a comic book movie good. There were some surprises along with more heart than what I would have expected from a summer blockbuster.
“X Men 3 Hits […]

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Happy Anniversaries

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Those youngins at Power Line are four-years old. Boots & Sabers turned three. Keep it up. Someday you might get as old as TAM.

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