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Date: August 2nd, 2006

Racist imagery just fine as long as liberals are doing it. UPDATED

2 August, 2006 (12:24) | Politics | By: ricjames

Via LGF I found this entry over at Huffington Post. The rant about how Joe Liberman must be destroyed, politically, is headlined with a photoshopped picture of Bill Clinton in big, heavy sunglasses standing, arm over the shoulder, with Joe Liberman in blackface. I kid you not. If the same image had been posted at [...]

Fairfax County makes a bad call on house heights

2 August, 2006 (08:19) | Law, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

I wrote a couple of days ago regarding the problem in Fairfax County with their discovery that the county officials had been issuing approvals and permits, apparently for years, for homes that exceeded the county’s height limitations. I see now that their Board has made a decision on the matter and while I approve of [...]

Defamation lawsuit filed against Murtha

2 August, 2006 (07:47) | Law, Military, Politics | By: ricjames

Seems to be a lawsuit blogging streak I’m on, but that’s just what keeps coming up. This time it’s the well-known former Marine  Congressman John “Cut-and-Run” Murtha that’s on the receiving end. The Marine staff sergeant in charge of the squad that Murtha claims murdered innocent civilians (on purpose, mind you, after cracking under the [...]

CA Supreme Court rules lawyer’s extortion attempt not protected by the “Esq.” title

2 August, 2006 (06:18) | Law | By: ricjames

I’ve written about the occasional ridiculous lawsuit here and there on this blog and one of the things that always amazes me about these cases is that there’s a lawyer out there who accepts, with a straight face, that the case has merit. (The jackass lawyer(s) running the lawsuits against Bacardi because their 180-proof run [...]