Couldn’t Help But Notice (070207)
Decapigate (HT Instapundit).
Update: Actually, it’s Decapigate III (at least; noted by Greyhawk via Instapundit).
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Libertad! (HT Instapundit; also an AP Story in The Sporting News).
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A lesson about out-of-control movements: At the beginning of the antismoking movement, of which I was an early member in the 1970s (long since not), activists said this would never happen. It doesn’t matter if they were lying from the start, or if they just got more intrusive as time went on. It’s happened. Comments come from the newly- and nicely-redesigned RAB, Columbuser, Glass City Jungle, Keeler Report, and Lincoln Logs.
Meanwhile, the same employer loses an employee (HT Writes Like She Talks; 2nd item at link) because it has rehired the person who administered an onsite beating to her. Comment 1 at the Cleveland Metro Blog says it all: “She would not have to worry about him if he was a smoker, the Clinic won’t stand for that type of behavior!!!”
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Porkopolis notes and comments on a breathtaking detachment from reality in the UK. Unfortunately, some of the leftosphere’s leading lights dim bulbs have similar detachment (HT LGF, who also noted Daily Kos doing the “la la, can’t hear you” thing).
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Hillary Clinton, push-poller, and on top of that, very rude — How many people, if informed that a telephone survey will take 30 minutes(!), would want to proceed? What are the chances that Hillary’s push-pollers warned participants about what they were going to have to go through (slim and none, and Slim just left)? Update: Oh, and given that the calls were made to Democratic activist types — I wonder if each individual’s answers were captured to see if they will be on her “good” list or her “bad” one?
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John Hawkins is right about the US Chamber of Commerce’s short-sighted illegal immigration opportunism.
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A tax revolt brews in Cuyahoga County.
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15 years for the courts to finally decide, once and for all, a drop-dead obvious matter. The paint companies have gotten the lead out, but the courts clearly haven’t.
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All the premature e-celebration over the liberalism of the young is ironic, given this.
