Justice Souter To Retire
Posted on April 30, 2009 at 9:39 pmSupreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the current court term.
The vacancy will give President Obama his first chance to name a member of the high court and begin to shape its future direction.
At 69, Souter is nowhere near the oldest member of the court. In fact he is in the younger half of the court’s age range with five justices older and just three younger. So far as anyone knows, he is in good health. But he has made clear to friends for some time that he wanted to leave Washington, a city he has never liked, and return to his native New Hampshire. Now, according to reliable sources he has decided to take the plunge and has informed the White House of his decision.
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She Doesn’t Feel Pity Or Remorse And She Absolutely Will Not Stop…
Posted on at 8:36 pmGubernatorial candidate Kim McMillan talks a bit of trash:
UPDATE: The Ward Cammack campaign with a retort.
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No More Away In Throwing Away
Posted on at 8:09 pmKnoxViews interviews gubernatorial candidate Ward Cammack:
“This changes the pricing,” said Mr. Cammack. “Businesses are looking at the fact that there’s no more away in throwing away. It’s their business, too. Somebody else’s waste impacts our business and our waste impacts somebody else’s business.”
Mr. Cammack says governments have recognized this, noting that last year there were 683 climate and sustainability action plans and 1193 mayoral initiatives across the country. He says this is not happening because of “purely an environmental viewpoint,” but rather “because of need, because of economics, and just pure, basic business interests.”
He feels that the policy shift is also driven by demographics. “Take housing for example, which is a huge employer and has been for years across the country and across Tennessee. But by 2025 there are going to be twenty-two million large-lot, acre and up surplus houses in the country.”
LaLonde Wins In Eighteen
Posted on at 7:22 pm672-476 is the final tally according to intrepid Metro reporter Nate Rau.
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They Should Have Tried To Send Her A Direct Message On Twitter
Posted on at 7:17 pmSarah Palin was unavailable to help rebrand the GOP:
The formation of the new group demonstrated the continuing disconnect between Republican leaders and one of their party’s biggest stars, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Cantor’s aides were apparently unable to reach Palin to ask her if she would like to join the group.
A Palin spokeswoman didn’t respond to a question about the group.
“Gov. Palin is hopefully going to be involved as well — we’ve reached out to her,” McCain said.
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Montgomery Bell Academy Will Be Closed For Seven Days
Posted on at 6:23 pmBecause somebody got the swine flu.
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Trippi Now Says John Edwards Should Not Have Run For Prez
Posted on at 6:18 pmYeah, no kidding:
“There is no doubt that he changed the race on the war, on health care and on challenging special interests and lobbyists. But even with all that he probably should not have run,” Joe Trippi told ABC in an e-mail message Thursday.
KY Senator Likely To Retire
Posted on at 5:36 pmVia Ken Rudin:
In a move that signals a retirement announcement from Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) is imminent, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson (R) has formed an exploratory committee to run for Senate.
In making the announcement, Grayson reiterated that he has “no plans to run against Senator Bunning” — and one Republican political strategist confirmed Thursday that Bunning did in fact give Grayson the green light to open up an exploratory committee, a clear signal that he does not plan to seek another term in 2010. A second GOP source said Grayson was likely to run now, even if Bunning decides not to retire after all.
Kentucky Republicans are speculating that Bunning will make his retirement announcement May 9 at the state’s Lincoln Day Dinner.
Grayson met with Bunning and other Members of the the Kentucky delegation this week before forming his exploratory committee. One of those meetings was with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has been a political mentor to Grayson.
In their meeting McConnell “wished [Grayson] luck,” said McConnell’s chief of staff, Billy Piper.
La Gente Innecesariamente Alarmantes
Posted on at 5:34 pmKarl Dean wants to make sure Hispanics are frightened and alarmed for little to no reason as well.
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EPIC FAILL
Posted on at 5:21 pmConsidering the situation, personalities and controversies involved, and so forth, I think this entry on the activity page from the TNDP summit is hilarious:
New Word
Posted on at 5:03 pmSovereigntism. I like it.
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Proletarian Values
Posted on at 5:00 pmAunt B. is upset she wasn’t instilled with a pompous sense of entitlement as a child:
When I think about the thing I learned from my parents that has affected my life most profoundly is that they taught me, no matter what happens to you, you just have to find a way to take it. This has, single-handedly, been the most damaging thing they’ve ever taught me, but I know it comes from a place of truth and love–that life is going to be hard and there will be forces beyond your control that line up against you and there won’t be anything you can do about it, and taking a stand will only draw attention to yourself and attention from authorities always goes wrong, so you just have to learn to take it, to find a way to survive and move on in spite of it.
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Renegade Democrat
Posted on at 4:40 pmFrom Jim Antle:
Arlen Specter’s first vote as a Senate Democrat was against Obama’s budget.
Barack Giver
Posted on at 4:37 pmVia Silence:
Millions of Americans enjoying their small windfall from President Barack Obama’s “Making Work Pay” tax credit are in for an unpleasant surprise next spring.
The government is going to want some of that money back.
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They’re Used To It
Posted on at 4:36 pmReligious people are more likely to support torture:
More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent — said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is “often” or “sometimes” justified. Only 42 percent of people who “seldom or never” go to services agreed, according the analysis released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified — more than 6 in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only 4 in 10 of them did.
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Bye, Bye To Tom Ingram
Posted on at 4:06 pmDC says farewell to the man who will architect the gubernatorial campaign of Bill Haslam:
And, last night Sen. Lamar Alexander’s longtime COS, Tom Ingram, held a rather festive farewell party at The Monocle.
It was a packed house, with Sens. Lamar Alexander, Mitch McConnell, Mark Warner, Bob Corker and Former Labor Sec Elaine Chao, plus Minority Leader John Boehner, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the White House Legislative team, Chuck Schumer’s CoS Mike Lynch, new staff director of the SRC Ryan Loskarn, Jim Jeffries with Alexander, Denzel McGuire of Kyl’s office, Stephen Replogle with the SRC, Rhonda Bentz of Navigators LLC and Jen Morris of McConnell’s office.
Guests were treated to a warm and funny speech by Sen. Mark Pryor’s COS Bobby Russell, Ingram’s DC roommate and cofounder with Ingram of the Bipartisan Chiefs of Staff breakfasts.
Tea Partiers Want A Sitdown With Obama
Posted on at 3:26 pmAnd they just might get one.
Indeed
Posted on at 3:25 pmAn argument against direct democracy:
An amendment aimed at putting the bill to referendum failed amid a debate in which one legislator said that Pontius Pilate had put Christ’s fate to a referendum.
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