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A day after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn into office in 2003, he capitalized on his popularity by calling state lawmakers into three special legislative sessions, each of which succeeded.
- If Rep. of Texas, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, were a movie golfer, he’d be David Simms, the antagonist in director Ron Shelton’s 1996 romantic comedy,
When Ricky Rubio told the Minnesota Timberwolves he was planning on staying in Spain for at least the next two years, word quickly spread to restricted free agent Ramon Sessions.
The Minnesota Timberwolves have signed restricted free agent point guard Ramon Sessions to an offer sheet, a person close to the deal says.
The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he'll vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
States are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece on special legislative sessions whose chief purpose, ironically, is to trim more funding from their eroding budgets.
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he remains troubled by some of Sonia Sotomayor's remarks and rulings.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Republican equating Sonia Sotomayor's supposed empathy with racial bias, was blocked from the federal bench himself two decades ago for making insensitive remarks about the Ku Klux Klan and the NAACP.
The top-ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee has greeted Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with skepticism.
The senior Republican senator who will question Sonia Sotomayor says the Supreme Court nominee must demonstrate she will not show bias on the bench.
The top Republican involved in the confirmation hearings for President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee says he would prefer his colleagues refrain from calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist.
Kobe and LeBron were the main attraction, but far from the only drama in Week 15.
The List: These 30 Senators Cast "The Pro-Contractor-Rape Vote"In the end, the amendment passed 68-30, with these fine Americans casting the pro-contractor-rape vote:
House GOP campaign chair got earmark for a blimp. And, the story just gets better from there.You can't make this stuff up. After the break, read the first five paragraphs of the article about Rep. Pete Sessions and the blimp earmark. Each has a fun fact.
I don't often post articles but this is an important point that is easily lost. If you want to know who attempted to waste nearly $2 billion dollars the official list can be found below
Republican Hypocrisy Case Number: "I'm Outta Fingers" -- Jeff SessionsFrom Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee:
I watched MSNBC's crazy Uncle Pat Buchanan have a mental breakdown, last night, right before my eyes. I thought we had turned the corner and where heading downhill on race in America, but crazy Uncle Pat has just changed my mind.
Free Speech Isn't a License to Inflame ExtremistsSomething very unpleasant is happening in this country. Many of us were lulled into believing that race and gender were no longer subjects for political vitriol. But the Sotomayor hearings and a black family in the White House have shown that was an overly optimistic assessment.
Senator Blocked Because of His "KKK" Comments Now Attacks SotomayorThe third-term Alabama senator, this week at least, is the face of a party without a clear leader. His role strikes some as hypocritical. But arguably, no one knows more intimately what a political minefield race has been for the GOP.
Daily Kos: Sotomayor's Woody Allen/Marshall McLuhan MomentSenator Jeff Session, in attacking Judge Sotomayor's famous "Wise Latina" comment, compared her unfavorably to Judge Miriam Cedarbaum, saying that Cedarbaum "believes that judges must transcend their personal sympathies and prejudices.".
Sotomayor, Dems, turn the Republicans' tableOn the first day of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, Republican senators uttered approximately 12,000 words in opening statements.
"Indeed, our legal system is based on a firm belief in an ordered universe and objective truth. The trial is the process by which the impartial and wise judge guides us to the truth....
Yes, Jeff Sessions would have us believe that judges should not be human. He doesn't think a judge should bring their ethnicity, their culture, their experience or their philosophies to court with them.
Top Hispanic Legal Group To Jeff Sessions: We Expect BetterA well-respected Latino legal group has written a scorching letter to Senator Jeff Sessions, the leader of the GOP's efforts on Sotomayor, that suggests he's guilty of fanning racism.
Limbaugh agrees with Sessions: Obama"s objective is unemploymentexcerpt: "" Earlier today, ThinkProgress highlighted NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions' (R-TX) claim that President Obama is intentionally trying to "'diminish employment and diminish stock prices' as part of a 'divide and conquer' strategy to consolidate power." Session …
Sessions flip-flops: Gay Supreme Court nominee would be a 'big concern.' Earlier this week, Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-AL) made headlines when he said he was open to a gay Supreme Court nominee. "I don't think a person who acknowledges that they have gay tendencies is disqualified per se for the job," he said.
Senator Who Praised Segregationist Judges Will Lead Opposition To Obama Nominees The GOP has selected a known racist, who defends "racial purity" to be the ranking Republican member on the Judiciary Committee. Shocking. The Republican "Big Tent" is a lacy white parasol, right out of Gone With The Wind.
Racially Insensitive Lott Praises Racially Insensitive Sessions's Judiciary Promotion As 'Poetic Justice' ...during a 1981 murder investigation involving the Ku Klux Klan, Sessions was heard by several colleagues commenting that he "used to think they [the Klan] were OK" until he found out some of them were "pot smokers."
Sen Jeff Sessions Demands Correction from Napolitano - "crossing the border is not a crime per se."DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said during a CNN interview, "crossing the border is not a crime per se." But the secretary was wrong because it is a criminal misdemeanor. 8 USC Sec.
Do You Need a Marital Checkup?..."Marital satisfaction improves for couples who have been through counseling once a year, while control couples didn't improve at all," Cordova said. "People that have been through the marriage checkup are improving in all kinds of ways in comparison to couples who haven't."
Scarlett Johansson - Sessions - AOL MusicScarlett Johansson takes to singing and does an excellent job.Watch the great sessions only on AOL.
Keep Your Brain Fit By Playing Video Games Brain fitness coach Don Veenstra of The Brain Fitness Gym visits each of the three St. Louis-area Sunrise locations every week to perform brain fitness sessions. Alzheimer's patients at Sunrise of Clayton spent a morning last week bowling on the Nintendo Wii console.
Mid-Winter's Morning Chant - Citadel Unplugged"Mid-Winter's Morning Chant (MWMC)" © G. Whitman (BMI) is from the Citadel® CD "The Citadel of Cynosure and Other Tales" and is an excerpt from one of the band's sci-fi fantasy conceptual storylines.
Bush Will Be Alone With Nothing To Sign The Immigration bill was put to rest on Thursday morning. A major victory for the American people, and a HUGE failure for 46 un-American senators.
Springsteen's Seeger sessions to be released on live CD and DVDBruce Springsteen is to release a live CD and DVD entitled "Bruce Springsteen With The Seeger Sessions Band Live in Dublin".
I just downloaded and installed Skype Beta 3.0 from the Skype official website blog. Not only has Skype changed their user interface but they have also added a few awesome features.
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