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reason.com - 11/19/2008

The Favor Factory

— reason.com — Last month , the Seattle Times assembled a handy database breaking down the earmarks attached to the... 2008 defense appropriations bill.  The paper looked at how many of the bill's earmarks went to each congressional district and, in turn, how ... (more) The Favor Factory

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rightwingnation.com - 11/22/2008

Finally

— rightwingnation.com — I really did get started at 4:30 am. There were a few snowflakes in the air, but... it didn’t concern me because it had been spitting snow all week. I got over Skytop, but when I was about halfway to Port Matilda to pick up I-99, the snow started coming down more heavily. I should have ... (more) Finally

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Murtha Watch: Cut-and-run smear merchant wants immunity
Michelle Malkin — [image] I had prayed before the election that I wouldn’t have to pay one more iota of attention to the pork-filled, cut-and-run smear merchant John Murtha. Our prayers, alas, were not answered. Now, this corruptocrat is trying to hide from justice in the Haditha slander lawsuits: A Marine who sued U.S. Rep. John Murtha for defamation urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to order the Johnstown Democrat to testify under oath in the case. An attorney for Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich told the court that he needs Murtha’s deposition to determine how often the congressman made the ...

Murtha Wants Immunity In Slander Lawsuit
Say Anything — He’s claiming that when he erroneously called several of our troops cold-blooded murders he was acting in his official capacity as a member of the House of Representatives. Which might be a sound and adequate technical legal argument, but doesn’t that sort of make the whole thing worse?  It was one thing when they were just come comments he made.  But official statements calling our troops murders from a member of Congress? Ugh. A Marine who sued U.S. Rep. John Murtha for defamation urged a federal appeals ...