The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Anybody Need a Lift Today?

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 12:51pm |
    I caught this over at Huffington Post.  I love the Sunday Liveblogging;  so I think you'll agree that Huffo is still good for something.With special vibes to Bunnykitty!...
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    The Sacred and The Profane: Fulton J. Sheen

    By Richard Day on Sat, 04/11/2009 - 4:07pm |
    Fulton J. Sheen was the Archbishop for Rochester, New York, once upon a time. A pretty awesome and powerful position in those days. As a child of six or eight, he was THE representative of God on earth. I mean...
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    In this week, particularly, may God Bless the United States of America

    By Barth on Sat, 04/11/2009 - 1:55pm |
    In its vain, and vaguely sickening attempt to find some way to bring President Obama down to their level or to find something as base about him as the embarrassment who was identified as our president for the prior eight...
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    THE BATCHELOR PARTY at The Daily Beast

    By Richard Day on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 3:52pm |
    I enjoy it when I agree whole heartedly with a beast such as rush. I get my biggest response when I play with a known fascists own language.  Most of the time I not only quote word for word, I...
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    The Political Scandal The Conservatives Didn't want you to Know About

    By deminizer on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 6:06pm |

    Former Thomas More College Board Member Joe Monaghan Speaks About Mismanagement and Investigation of Abuse of Columnist Robert Novak 's Minority Scholarship Program by University President Jeffrey O. Nelson.

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    LEAVE IT TO BEAVER: Lessons Learned

    By Richard Day on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 4:54pm |
    Ahhh. Leave it to Beaver. Make fun of that show if you will, but I learned valuable lessons watching that show as a tot. I recently caught a classic lesson the other day.Beaver and Larry Mondello (The most 'ethnic' the...
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    "Because What he's Frittering Away is the Rights we all Have as Citizens"

    By oleeb on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 4:32pm |
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/political_opinion/Obama_is_Frittering_Away_the_Rights_We...'; You may have noticed in yesterday's news that Eric Holder, on behalf of the President has ordered the Department of Justice (once again) to continue defending indefensible and quite criminal and unconstitutional activity on the part of...
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    RUSH LIMBAUGH: A New Voice of Hope in Trying Times

    By Richard Day on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 5:45pm |
    I have read some blogs recently that appear to put a damper on hope, hope for a new America with our New President. With our fairly new Speaker of the House. With a real majority in the Senate. I am...
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    Kindness is such a wussy word.

    By amike on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 11:26pm |
    How to Perform Free Random Acts of KindnessLast fall, passing through South Station in Boston, I was approached by station staff and given a little business card.  "Commit to Kindness," it read, and on the reverse was a picture of...
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    The Manchurian Candidate

    By Richard Day on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 3:48pm |
    The Manchurian Candidate is the title used in two films. The one released starring Sinatra and Lawrence Harvey in the early 1960's and kind of hidden following the Kennedy Assassination. And the most recent starring Streep and I never remember...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table: The Quest of Tom Delay

    By Richard Day on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 5:35pm |
    Sir Quixotic and Beau Manes had been traveling east from Cornwall for five days. They had delivered the treasure, taxes or ransom or whatever to the midget king. Well they had to go north a little too if you look...
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    Why Haven't we Seen More of Prof. Wm. Black on TPM? Why not Help Focus Attention on What he has to Say?

    By oleeb on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 5:14pm |
    Why haven't we seen more of or heard more from Prof. Wm. Black of the University of MO, Kansas City on TPM?  There may have been some mention of him, but there hasn't been a whole lot or else I...
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    This is not going to be easy

    By Barth on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 3:45pm |
    When President Harding died in San Fransisco while on his Voyage of Understanding in 1922 (White House spin being what is was even then, even if it was not called that yet) the national outpouring of grief caused people to...
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    Anthropomorphism: A Theorum

    By Richard Day on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 9:34pm |
    We begin with animism. In order to even get to this concept of anthropomorphism. Besides, it is easier to spell.  Animism is: The belief that plants and inanimate objects have souls. Anima meant soul in Latin. I do not think...
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    Temples of Mammon

    By amike on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 7:13pm |
    Towards the beginning of the week I wrote a little number under the title The More Things Change the More They Remain the Same.  In it, I promised something more extensive on the theme of the piece, which was that...
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    Can you smell what Nancy P. is cookin'? It's Roast Rump of Reconciled Repugnant. Welcome to dinner, Senator; now choke on it.

    By jollyroger on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 8:15am |
    Harry Reid has grown a pair, or maybe he borrowed my own representative’s. (Suddenly I’m feeling warm and fuzzy about Nancy Pelosi, after voting for Cindy Sheehan last year…). We are advised, in the final graf of an otherwise unimportant...
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    An Ode to Days Passed: The End of Life as I Have Known It

    By Richard Day on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 1:00pm |
    All is lost.I have learned to survive on very little. I figure things out. I cannot figure how to become a contributing member of society, but I know how to make coffee last, how to go grocery shopping with less...
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    Another Smart Guy in DC figures out Healthcare is Expensive

    By oleeb on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 5:40pm |
    In an article linked to on the TPM front page, yet another oh so smart guy, Jonathan Cohn, writing in The New Republic amazingly reveals his insightful discovery in a piece titled "The Single Biggest Issue that Could Undermine Reform". http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/04/01/the-sing...  Along with everyone...

    Harry Reid Smackdown - who got slapped?

    By kgb999 on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 1:30pm |
    I think the emerging belief that Harry Reid delivered a "smackdown" to liberal pressure groups is totally off base.  Yeah, I think a smackdown was delivered. But some people have totally misidentified the smackee.Sure, a statement like "this isn't helping"...
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    THE PRISONER

    By Richard Day on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 9:17am |
    This really began in the twenties. I had graduated from Anapolis and entered the Marines as a First Lieutenant in '19. I served thirteen months in Bagdad, before Iraq became the 51st State, was promptly sent to South Carolina where...
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    THE CONFICKER WORM

    By Richard Day on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 9:54pm |
    Amidst the false claims of treasonThat go beyond all real reasonComes an omen too horrible to think onToo terrible for anyone  to imagineOut of the crazy cyber world, Comes the most important testThe greatest single threat we have had to...
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    The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

    By amike on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 5:43pm |
    The battle between citizens and banker/financiers is as American as Apple Pie. If I wasn't afraid of being accused of being a Francophile (and we know what that did to John Kerry) I'd have titled this wee post,  "plus ça...
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    Pointing Fingers and Bringing GM and Chrysler Back to Life

    By oleeb on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 3:43pm |
    With the government moving in and essentially acting as a new majority stockholder would act after a takeover, by demanding all kinds of changes in the auto companies in return for their investment, including the immediate removal of a...
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    Mr. President, you have two daughters.

    By we are stardust on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 11:56am |
    I cannot imagine they will want to realize one day that you, their father, their President, got in the way of investigating the previous administration for War Crimes.  Yes, during your campaign you assured voters that you would "look ahead,...
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    Ubermensch as a Hobby

    By Richard Day on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 2:52pm |
    There are some sports where you must begin with the proper announcer. Madden is one of those. Watching a football game is just not the same without Madden 'doing color'. The guy on Mad apes him the best. But...

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