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Her lone misstep was a passage where she tried to tackle the issue of her likeability. She said: Part of what this campaign is coming down to is a recognition that we need to know, as specifically as possible, what our next president intends to do. We don't need a leap of faith. We don't need to have a beer with the next president. We have that president. Although, you know, I'd be happy to have a beer, too . . . Uh, sure. Posted by Jonathan V. Last at 04:07 PM filed in: 2008 | Permalink | E-mail the author | E-mail article .
Failure Was an Option!
Voters wanted an immigration deal": A quick word on those polls MSM writers--e.g. Dan Balz--are using to suggest that the Senate thwarted the popular will in blocking "comprehensive immigration reform." I'd been puzzled myself by the consistent polls showing that a) the comprehensive bill itself was wildly unpopular, yet b) --and these are the polls emphasized by the MSM--the controversial "earned legalization" planks, when they are described to voters, win majority approval. But Mystery Pollster cleared it up for me. The key is the Gallup finding that only half of the public is paying much attention to the immigration debate. Those who are paying attention oppose the bill 30% to 11%, but 58 % "don't know enough to say." On this basis, Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport calls those who oppose the bill a "vociferous minority"--apparently believing that if only more voters paid attention they'd endorse the bill, because when they're given the questions describing various paths to citizenship for illegals who "have a job" and "pay back taxes," they mostly say yes.
NJ Senate approves abolishing death penalty
Four teenagers are accused in a robbery and assault of students near the Rowan University campus in Glassboro. The case has some similarities to one in October, when Rowan sophomore Donald "Donnie" Farrell of Boonton was killed in a robbery attempt. But Bernie Weisenfeld, a spokesman for the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office, said investigators have determined that the cases are not connected. Continue reading "Attack on Rowan students unconnected to fatal beating, cops say" » .
Councilman MikeK Recalls Knievel Action Figure
Top: Young MikeK playing with Evel Knievel action figure; bottom: MikeK receives inspiration from his childhood friends before leaving for a Coeur d'Alene City Council meeting. I had a classic Evel Knievel motorcycle riding action figure when I was a kid. The stunts my brothers and I would stage for that motorcycle toy were legendary (riding out a second story window, chasing the dog around the house without getting chewed to ribbons, you name it). RIP Evel. I wonder what happened to Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man who played the role of Evel's arch-nemesis in the boyhood action figure wars?/Councilman MikeK. Question: What was your favorite action figure/doll when you were little? .
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