Assortment

1) Union flame-war in California.

2) Hard to believe, I know, but Pelosi may have lied about her “powerlessness” in putting a halt to waterboarding.

3) Is Obama bored with his job?

4) Carol says, “It sucks when the best thing you can say about your president is that at least he's notJohn Edwards.”

5) Gosh, not just Pelosi, but Obama, too, seems to have a little problem with mendacity.

6) The poetry corner, with TimT.

7) Expert on socialism visits America, smells something strangely familiar.

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