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The "Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009" (HR 2499) is not the product of consensus and should be opposed. Let your voice be heard!

Satire posted during the Obama campaign.

A best moments video as the ex-president speaks out about ... something.

What was becoming of civil liberties during the recently departed Bush administration. Doesn't address the uncomfortable question of whether this is a continuation of trends seen during the Clinton administration.

Commentary on the notion that the Bush Administration and neocons were pro-free enterprise.

Front Page Magazine article about the disappearance of free speech rights seen in France, after a certain well known actress criticised a few cultural practices of the incoming Muslim immigrants, eg. ritual slaughter of animals. Support for PETA has now become a criminal act in France, it would seem, made so in the name of tolerance.

some interesting snippets in this blog: it is a shame it hasn't been updated since 2006 ( a bit like my own blog!)

Watch what's left of a once distinguished architectural legacy be destroyed because our city is run by idiots. Consider this quote: ""Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," Alderman Matlak said. "A lot of people don't want 19th-century buildings.I grew up in a frame house. My bedroom was 8 by 8. People don't want that now." Then - here's a wild idea. Maybe they might try moving into one of the neighborhoods that isn't historic? Which, in Chicago, is almost all of them, now? Speaking as somebody who lives in Chicago, I can report that the difference of opinion between the developers and the preservationists on this is not an honest one; the rate of demolition has not been exaggerated one bit.

Let's hear it ... for village idiocy. Blog post mentioning the praise of the same, from somebody who ought to know better.