One thing that puzzles me about some politicians is how unrepentant they can be.  Even after a jury handed down a seven-count felony guilty verdict (2008 WL 4711056) the other day, Ted Stevens is still defiant.  Seriously?
The senator seems to have no respect for the law.  He lied on six Senate Financial Disclosure Forms spanning [...]

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As many fundamentalist Christians eagerly point out, popular holidays such as Halloween, Christmas, and Easter combine American pop culture with the occult and paganism, and in fact, their modern incarnations are almost completely un-Christian.  It’s for this reason that some Christian sects oppose celebrating Halloween or even Christmas–at least in the modern American fashion.  Maybe, then, Halloween is one of the [...]

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I just looked into my crystal ball, and have 4 predictions to share:
1) John McCain Will Lose Embarrassingly to Obama: 349-189

The deck has been stacked against John McCain for weeks now, and we can definitely chalk up some of the obstacles in his path to bad timing - the housing slump, the stock market mini-crash, [...]

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Dear University of Iowa parking office:
The Myrtle parking lot is an outrage of a magnitude that…well, seems pretty typical at Iowa. ‘Let’s make it easier for students to pay by allowing payment with credit card’…oh wait that doesn’t work yet, so essentially there are two coin meters for EVERY parking space in the lot. And [...]

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There’s been a lot of controversy over Obama allegedly saying he wants to spread peoples’ wealth around.  Something about class warfare or whatever.  It’s all over my head.  I don’t grasp the subtleties of Obama’s tax plan (nor do most people), but I do know that I’m going to make about $80 off the backs of other hardworking [...]

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