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Edwards to win, Obama to place

Sorry about the light posting; I've been buried in homework for my Web design classes. The good news: I really like it and have an aptitude for it. The bad news: when I really like something new, I tend to devote unhealthy amounts of time to it. The " ...

From SEAN AQUI, Midtopia,  25 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Bill Clinton

Jefferson on the stand

Rep. William Jefferson testified at a pre-trial hearing Thursday, attempting to get evidence from the FBI raid on his house thrown out. But it didn't go well for him. He claimed the FBI intimidated him when they interviewed him during the raid -- ...

From SEAN AQUI, Midtopia,  21 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  William Jefferson,  Harvard University

California eyes thermostats

About a week ago, it came out that California's energy regulators were seeking the power to in private buildings. They would install a radio-operated controller that would let them raise or lower temperatures by a couple of degrees during severe ...

From SEAN AQUI, Midtopia,  18 Jan 2008

Michelle Bachmann is still clueless

MPR's Mid-morning show interviewed Rep. Michelle Bachmann (and Rep. Tim Walz) yesterday. You can find the audio of the hour-long show here. They both have interesting things to say about Iraq, though Bachmann continues to come across as a clueless ...

From SEAN AQUI, Midtopia,  18 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Tim Walz,  Ben Bernanke

Cool or ooky?

This isn't political, per se, but I stumbled across this site and found myself equal parts fascinated and repulsed. When your loved one dies, you can subject their body to exceedingly high temperature and pressures and turn them into a diamond, which ...

From SEAN AQUI, Midtopia,  18 Jan 2008

Ex-Congressman charged with supporting Al Qaeda

Didn't see this one coming. A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and ...

From SEAN AQUI, Midtopia,  17 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  United Nations,  Taliban

Holocaust archive begins opening its files

Maybe now the Holocaust deniers will shut up. The Bad Arolsen documents — transportation lists, Gestapo orders, camp registers, slave labor booklets, death books — contain references to about 17.5 million people, Jews and non-Jews. It is the largest ...

From SEAN AQUI, Midtopia,  16 Jan 2008

ACLU comes to aid of Sen. Craig

The ACLU throws its support behind a sitting Republican senator! But that's not the best part. This is the best part. In an effort to help Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public ...

From SEAN AQUI, Midtopia,  16 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Larry Craig,  U.S. Republican Party

We had to destroy the village in order to save it

That seems to be the logic behind spy chief Mike McConnell's breezy description of his plan to monitor every bit of communication on the Internet. This according to a wide-ranging interview (not yet online) in New Yorker magazine. The nation's top ...

From SEAN AQUI, Midtopia,  15 Jan 2008
Related Topics: National Security Agency,  Google Inc.

A lot less pork

I missed this while on hiatus, so forgive me for noting what may be old news to some of you. But after the federal government's fiscal year 2007 ended on September 30, Citizens Against Government Waste toted up the earmarks. Their conclusion? After ...

From SEAN AQUI, Midtopia,  15 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Citizens Against Government Waste,  Tom Coburn,  Jim DeMint,  Jeff Sessions

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