And every vote counts huh?
“California’s supreme court ruled that a ban on gay marriage was unlawful Thursday, effectively leaving same-sex couples in America’s most populous state free to tie the knot in a landmark ruling.
In an opinion that analysts say could have nationwide implications for the issue, the seven-member panel voted 4-3 in favor of [...]

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I had to amend the headline because as usual the AP on does so down into the middle of the story.
“A federal jury convicted ex-Mayor Sharpe James and his former mistress Wednesday of corruption stemming from the cut-rate sale of city land.
James was convicted on all five charges he faced, including fraud and conspiracy. Under [...]

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It’s raining corruption with the Democrats of late. If it’s not “hooking” up with ladies of the night with tax payer buck, it’s tying to be a modern day hood in the Motor City:
“Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and Detroit’s youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after [...]

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According to reports:
“Eliot Spitzer, the 54th governor of the state of New York, will resign Wednesday morning, a high-ranking official tells CBS 2’s Andrew Kirtzman. Lt. Gov. David Paterson will be sworn in later in the day in Albany.
There has been no set timetable for an announcement and an official letter of resignation has not [...]

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Breaking via the NY Times:
“ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning.
Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides inside his Fifth Avenue apartment early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public [...]

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And you wonder why Andy McCarthy thinks it’s time to say goodnight to FISA. In the meantime it appears that FISA activist Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly isn’t through playing President:
“WASHINGTON - The government must answer a watchdog group’s demands to release records about the nation’s classified terrorist spying program, the chief judge of a [...]

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MAJOR UPDATE: Per the Washington Post:
“The House last night unanimously agreed to create a special select committee, with subpoena powers, to investigate Republican allegations that Democratic leaders had stolen a victory from the House GOP on a parliamentary vote late Thursday night.
The move capped a remarkable day that started with Republicans marching out of [...]

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Let’s hope that when all is said and done Ronnie Earle gets “Nifonged”.
“The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today refused to reinstate criminal conspiracy charges against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and two co-defendants.
DeLay, R-Sugar Land, and political consultants Jim Ellis and John Colyandro were accused of conspiring to violate state election laws [...]

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Peggy Nooman:
“A little love would go a long way right now. We should stop putting newcomers in constant jeopardy by blithely importing ever-newer immigrants who’ll work for ever lower wages. The ones here will never get a sure foot on the next rung that way.
We should close the border, pause, absorb what we have, and [...]

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Why? Read more from Andy McCarthy at NRO on just how dangerous activist judges are to America.
“Ali Saleh Kalah al-Marri is an al-Qaeda-trained terrorist embedded here by the terror network, right before 9/11, as a ‚Äúsleeper‚Äù operative to sabotage the United States ‚Äî by committing acts of terror and using his techno-skills to [...]

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