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Althouse: At the Evergreen Café...
... it's getting late, but please linger....
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:31pm -07:00T (7 words)
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Althouse: When the lawyer testifies against his client...
... and the client is O.J. Simpson.
[Yale] Galanter hesitated and spoke only after he paused, breathed deeply and was reminded that Simpson had waived attorney-client privilege.
"I'm very uncomfortable doing this," Galanter said. Via TalkLeft, who sa...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:16pm -07:00T (60 words)
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Althouse: "How Twitter Is Messing With Al-Qaeda's Careful PR Machine."
"Individual jihadis are increasingly taking to social media with their own opinions, sparking disputes within the terrorist organization."
It's a marketplace of ideas. As Justice Holmes famously said:
If you have no doubt of your premises or your po...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:16pm -07:00T (142 words)
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Althouse: "Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers."
Information the IRS demanded from the Coalition for Life of Iowa. Asked if that's an appropriate question to a 501(c)(3) applicant, IRS commissioner Steven Miller says he's pained at his inability to answer.
What an awful witness! (And I say that a...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:16pm -07:00T (53 words)
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Althouse: The Althouse Amazon portal: your gateway to truth, justice, and the American way.
By using the Althouse portal, you can buy things you want and – while paying nothing extra – make a contribution to this blog. We notice. We appreciate it. And only if you voluntarily testify under oath will we know it's you.
Available through the ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 3:46pm -07:00T (107 words)
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Althouse: The official ceremony to open the dog park... as seen from the dogs' point of view.
Today was the official opening ceremony for Dane County's 7th dog park — the same dog park you've seen pictured on this blog many times. It's not like it's been closed. It's just that today they had some officials making speeches and some TV cameras. Wh...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 2:46pm -07:00T (111 words)
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Althouse: "We've had bras hanging here for 45 years. It's been a charm of the place. So here comes this gal..."
"... and she's walking in here like Lady Astor's pet horse, you know, and she says she wants those bras down because they're a fire hazard. Now how can a bra be a fire hazard unless someone is wearing it? Honest to God."...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 2:46pm -07:00T (43 words)
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Althouse: Drudge: "They Knew."
A very dramatic graphic depiction by Drudge now. The link goes to the NYT "Treasury Knew of I.R.S. Inquiry in 2012, Official Says."...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 2:46pm -07:00T (23 words)
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Althouse: "The City of Philadelphia shut down a career fair for ex-offenders today..."
"... after an unexpected crowd of thousands showed up, résumés in hand."
There was no yelling, no shoving — just 3,000 people all trying to get into the job fair at once....
Dateline: 2013-05-17 1:31pm -07:00T (31 words)
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Althouse: "Officials in the State Department and Clinton circles seem especially sensitive about the arrangement, and no one would speak about it on the record."
Says the New York Times, about Huma Abedin and her work for private clients while serving in the State Department in her longtime role as Hillary Clinton's confidante.
Ms. Abedin reached her new working arrangement in June 2012, when she returned from ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 12:16pm -07:00T (242 words)
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Althouse: "It is absolutely not illegal" says IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, testifying today about the targeting of conservatives.
Transcript here....
Dateline: 2013-05-17 12:16pm -07:00T (2 words)
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Althouse: A Madison, WI proposal to authorize community street painting projects to "bring people together."
We're not talking about water soluble paint, but permanent paint jobs, the equivalent of murals, but on the horizontal surface that cars drive on. The alderwoman who proposes the new ordinance — Marsha Rummel — got the idea from Portland, Oregon, "wh...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 10:01am -07:00T (949 words)
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Althouse: "A Self is interesting to oneself and others, it acts as a sort of rudder in all the vicissitudes of life..."
"... and it thereby defines what used to be known as a career," wrote Jacques Barzun to his grandson, the lawprof, Charles Barzun, quoted by my son Jaltcoh here. The grandson had asked for help with what he called "a genuine crisis of identity... "brought...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:46am -07:00T (464 words)
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Althouse: "A List Of Recurring Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, And Jason Sudeikis Characters..."
"... Ranked In Descending Order Of How Much This Commentator Will Miss Them."
Via Throwing Things, where they're going to miss Fred Amisen's Prince:
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Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:46am -07:00T (23 words)
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Althouse: Former acting IRS commissioner Steve Miller testifies in Congress: "I do not believe that partisanship motivated the people..."
"... who engaged in the practices described in the inspector general’s report." He apologized for "the mistakes that we made and poor service we provided," and opined that "partisanship ... has no place at the IRS."
Miller said that “foolish mistake...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:46am -07:00T (161 words)
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