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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:03:34 GMT Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:03:34 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ The Wall Street Journal reports that Congressman Edolphus Towns, D - New York and recipent of two Countrywide "VIP" loans, continues to use his influence as the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/10/02/two_words_one_democrat_congressman_couldnt_define.thtml 207adc1d-924a-4143-a73b-8defd78739a5 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:03:34 GMT To the tune of "Old McDonald Had a Farm" The chorus is from a sign at the 9/12 Teaparty in Washington, but the sign holders had not made a verse. Old Obama had a plan That you and I should owe And in this plan... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/09/13/old_obama_had_a_plan.thtml c4e9a0db-5c0e-4e40-970b-d8a6611b19e0 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:07:01 GMT Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers identifies three elements that are critical to work being meaningful and satisfying. Autonomy Complexity Connection (a perceptible connection between effort and... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/05/12/formula_for_meaningful_work.thtml 08e7f480-4358-44b8-8de2-64b777c94422 Tue, 12 May 2009 15:07:15 GMT We screw cars, and people, together. Even liberal The Nation magazine is unhappy that the plan to make Government Motors competitive and profitable is to produce more of their cars for sale in the U.S. off shore. The... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/05/10/the_new_motto_for_gm_government_motors.thtml 9e681042-3bdd-420d-8dc7-47ceda1924c1 Sun, 10 May 2009 23:18:06 GMT It is a synonym for "netiquette". I heard it in a podcast that I follow called ProductiveUPodcast. They have a netiquette columnist they call "The Cybercouth Tiger". I think they may have invented the word since I... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/04/08/an_interesting_new_word_-_cybercouth.thtml ab94b9cf-a4d7-48c4-9f6b-03318ac2b41e Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:55:51 GMT NPR reports that Ag Eric Holder is dropping the prosecution of former Senator Ted Stevens after the corruption conviction that was handed down days before the election and undoubtedly cost him his Senate seat was... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/04/01/a_pattern_of_political_prosecution.thtml 020c275e-8cd1-4990-a114-22d7222d2552 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:47:39 GMT If you are Barack Obama and the ACLU agrees with conservative groups that what you have ordered is an unconstitutional limitation to free speech, you can be thoroughly assured that you have overstepped your bounds. In... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/28/how_to_know_when_you_have_overstepped.thtml 5c74cfb3-2a33-4a56-a01f-97de69316cd3 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:23:22 GMT Not having learned from innocently failing to realize his "put lipstick on this pig" comment would be interpreted by his audience as a slap at Sarah Palin after her Hockey Mom/Pit Bull joke, he gives Sarah the huntress... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/20/lipstick_on_a_special_olympian.thtml efa04172-2a76-4c3e-870c-e3669fab9092 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:42:44 GMT Charles Krauthammer has a brilliant take on what our perspective should be on the size of the AIG bonuses. He points out that they are only a rounding error compared to the money the current administration and Congress... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/20/rounding_error_scary,_but_true.thtml 680503d4-3065-4094-989c-f7ab54893e6e Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:18:24 GMT It is the only possible explanation for the Keystone Cops comedy of errors outlined in this article. We know for certain from the performance of this administration that incompetence just isn't a possibility. http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/18/rush_limbaugh_takes_control_of_the_whitehouse_teleprompter!.thtml 7964af43-43c1-4249-9061-51a8985685fd Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:51:31 GMT The "journalist" who threw his shoes at President Bush has been sentenced to three years in prison for "assaulting a foreign leader". I wonder what Hillary Clinton will get for overcharging one? Between Hillary's... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/12/what_is_the_penalty_for_overcharging_a_foreign_leader.thtml 90cc07e2-2f3f-4dbe-90ea-37b8470be18a Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:52:19 GMT Confusion is a lesser known ancient Chinese philosopher. Those who hang out in bars are more likely to end up behind them. http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/07/another_saying_of_confusion.thtml b0099ed5-23b4-4aa9-8983-908bca8f3bff Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:25:09 GMT Look at any stock index. If it is headed down, the President is talking. http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/07/how_to_use_the_internet_to_tell_if_president_obama_is_talking.thtml 2a030685-1661-4afa-bfc4-574de496d55f Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:08:55 GMT Just listen to Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" and you will understand. http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/07/my_new_name_for_president_obama_-_bad_moon.thtml 472ea81b-ef65-4f5a-87ec-c31d2a9866e0 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:06:06 GMT ... Tony Blankley for this gem. Obama Lied; the Economy Died Great job, Tony. Pick up your statuette on the way out. http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/05/the_nerdus_for_best_use_of_the_oppositions_prhase_aginst_them_by_an_opinion_journalist_goes_to_.thtml a1fb53e0-6c05-4d49-afd3-73bee2dc6933 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:57:22 GMT I think the advice from the team that President Obama has assembled to guide the U.S. auto industry back to health will be to use the Federal bail out money and their union pension funds to buy stock in Honda, Toyota... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/23/driving_gm_and_chrysler_to_health.thtml c004fca5-56e2-4b3f-8a50-0f1152d9a592 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:07:38 GMT ... believe President Obama. His overblown comparisons of the current economy to the Great Depression have become so egregious that even his home town paper is crying foul. Perhaps the Guiness records people would be... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/17/those_who_dont_know_history_are_doomed_to_.thtml 917a6c4f-b940-435a-b0b6-ae9d7bfefdb4 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:56:11 GMT Forget all the "stop smoking" campaigns. Just put the ecozealots at the EPA in charge of what comes out of people's mouths and let them apply the same standards applied to industrial smokestacks. No smoker could light... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/12/something_the_epa_should_be_in_charge_of.thtml 77e114b2-8547-4d52-b551-4273f7eef5f9 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:27:45 GMT Both have had the FBI search offices of people associated with them and remove records. What is different is the timing and how it was covered. The Weldon-related searches happened shortly before the election with... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/10/what_john_murtha_and_kurt_weldon_have_in_common.thtml ab2d18a0-973b-49e2-8559-49e7ba5a5be3 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:45:51 GMT During an interview on a failing liberal talk radio station Senator Stabenow (D_MI) said: I think it’s absolutely time to pass a standard. Now, whether it’s called the Fairness Standard, whether... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/06/thanks,_deb,_but_we_already_have_a_standard.thtml f5de250d-b428-4148-8a06-3be6b4fb1fc9 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:38:34 GMT Just as President Obama is outlining his proposal for curbing executive salaries, Drudge is running a link to an article on the "seven-figure" book deal that PO's campaign manager just got for a book on the campaign.... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/04/what_about_a_compensation_cap_on_book_deals.thtml 807488d7-782b-49dd-94c5-612d261716ae Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:33:14 GMT One of the issues brought up by the various bailout plans is whether government ownership of stock constitutes "socialism". The definition my teachers always used was the the government ownership of the means of... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/11/17/lets_be_consistent_on_socialism_and_public_ownership_of_stock.thtml 13be83dc-ad8c-470e-93dc-d6fd213950d9 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:35:21 GMT Mark Cuban had better hope he is better at legal dancing than he was at ballroom dancing during his (brief) stint on Dancing With the Stars. The Securities and Exchange Commission is suing him for insider trading... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/11/17/so_you_think_you_can_dance.thtml 29415dbd-bfb7-4732-b9a1-12062ed62f61 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:15:23 GMT A little medical analogy may help elucidate just how wrong Obama is about the economy. The economy is sick. There is understandable debate as to whether the best treatment is antibiotics, gene therapy or vitamins.... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/09/29/senator_barack_kevorkian.thtml 3c0517c2-975d-4e02-b4b7-e3668fc90e7c Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:43:50 GMT Even otherwise insightful columnists get lost when talking about executive qualifications. Kathleeen Parker's recent article about Sarah Palin is an excellent example of this. The worst person you could ever elect... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/09/27/nobody_is_qualified_to_be_president_by_their_own_knowledge.thtml b6517ee2-a15f-4e90-8ccd-9bec7e6b5086 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:05:45 GMT Professional football players are not selected primarily for their verbal abilities, but even they are expected to know when something they are thinking of saying will go on their opponents locker room bulletin board... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/09/10/why_obama_should_not_be_a_professional_football_player_or_president.thtml d019b750-964e-4342-b0ea-ff11c22becfb Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:33:41 GMT Just keep repeating it. Community Organizer = Lobbyist Community Organizer = Lobbyist Community Organizer = Lobbyist Community Organizer = Lobbyist Community Organizer = Lobbyist Community Organizer =... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/09/06/community_organizer_=_lobbyist.thtml b6ffe5f6-f293-4287-a747-28e2f8635fae Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:57:34 GMT I suspect that Obama's big hug and proclamation of friendship with Kwame Kilpatrick was more political expedience than truth, but it makes for some great attack ads as noted here. While Kilpatrick is definitely an... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/09/06/whats_really_scary_is_that_this_isnt_obamas_scariest_friend.thtml f0f7b2b0-ad8d-4e7b-84a4-071656e95812 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:51:33 GMT One of the emerging slaps at Sarah Palin showed up on Politico. The current accus-question is why she has retained a lawyer and is seeking a change in who will investigate whether she overstepped her bounds in the... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/09/04/gee,_i_wonder_why_she_changed_her_attitude_towards_a_bi-partisan_investigation.thtml 3ac4b447-2c40-46ed-a254-6fe3778d774e Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:41:57 GMT OK, I admit it. I take my crop duster out late at night and spray insecticide on organic farms. http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/08/30/confessions_of_a_midnight_crop_duster.thtml e8f0a18d-a819-41c4-b9f3-6afa25c650fd Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:00:57 GMT An ABC Nightly news report detailed how a law crafted and passed by Democrats that "intended" to reduce the influence of lobbyists at political conventions actually resulted in the lobbyist having to cut their meat for... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/08/26/democrats_pass_reform_law_that_requires_lobbyists_to_cut_their_meat_for_them.thtml 6f2cf744-11da-4c39-8969-8328ebb92f83 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:52:49 GMT The old saw that you can tell a Democrat is lying because his lips are moving isn't entirely true. While I haven't found a way to tell when a Dem is telling the truth on the fly, sometimes you can after the fact. A... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/08/24/how_can_you_tell_that_a_democrat_was_telling_the_truth.thtml a79312b3-f169-48d0-8618-53f350937c12 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:25:27 GMT While taking a nice healthy walk as a break from work I noticed a man who found a way to make his smoke break even more hazardous to his health. His hand, with lit cigarette, was leaning up against a chain link fence... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/08/21/another_way_that_smoking_could_be_hazardous_to_your_health.thtml bd3dfd26-4066-4a22-bded-65afe78a72cd Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:15:27 GMT I was driving past a car lot today and couldn't help noticing that all the small cars were in the front row. They had signs in their windshields proclaiming things like, "Great mileage!" and "Economical!". The huge SUVs... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/08/14/how_much_is_that_blue_one_in_the_window.thtml 9361ed1f-2f0c-4204-aebe-069a053ba668 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:21:17 GMT A number of liberal groups are up in arms because the Metro Police are running traffic checkpoints in an area of Southeast DC known as "Trinidad" because there have been twenty-two murders in the area already this... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/06/09/of_rights_and_checkpoints.thtml 016a664a-63e3-499b-8337-2a6880ece520 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:28:36 GMT Hannah, a precious toddler with curly blonde hair and huge blue eyes who is a regular in our church nursery, gave a delightful visual presentation of the modern American woman this Sunday. Her ensemble was a pink polka... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/05/26/the_haiku_of_the_modern_american_woman.thtml 2306da73-72f4-4d59-9f68-b1db1714909f Mon, 26 May 2008 15:18:07 GMT It has become clear that areas like the Northwest that have a high percentage of people who believe in global warming are experiencing record high temperatures while areas with fewer global warming believers are... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/05/20/global_warming_the_cause_and_cure.thtml 8ec3c529-1564-4ed4-8d78-f17341f5a86c Tue, 20 May 2008 17:02:31 GMT There have been some questions as to whether Eliot Spitzer, and now apparently his replacement, may have used campaign funds to finance trysts with volunteer or professional sex partners. This is a... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/03/18/donor_intent_and_sex_scandals_-_an_understandable_mistake.thtml 2f309a3e-98a8-4ffd-b936-ef42120ac3fa Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:49:12 GMT While there are many factors one might consider when choosing a political party, the conventional wisdom is that people "vote their pocketbooks". This being the case, let's look at the economic logic of the Republican... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/03/15/electoral_math_and_choosing_a_political_party.thtml d87efe48-3b57-4328-ae3e-608601f6b29b Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:02:29 GMT Every lottery operator knows that the availability of a big jackpot draws money like a cow patty draws flies. People are willing to spend more on lottery tickets if the potential payoff is higher. What does this tell... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/03/05/what_the_powerball_drawing_teaches_us_about_government.thtml 345bc1bf-f139-467e-983f-170d11e93714 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:55:12 GMT Those mean people at National Review are accusing Barak Obama of lying. They should realize that he is speaking hopefully - saying different things about the same topic to different people and hoping they don't compare... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/03/04/obama_isnt_lying!_he_is_speaking_hopefully.thtml f9be7c59-a06c-403a-81c1-956cfeadaab0 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:59:57 GMT Sometimes it doesn't seem like it because their intelligence is "seated" in a different part of their anatomy. http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2008/02/27/liberals_really_are_smart.thtml b8a3242c-39c2-4b7b-aef0-25ed00609111 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:45:02 GMT A Democrat who was not in the habit of doing so decided to try going to church one Sunday. As it happened the church was having a prophecy conference. The Democrat heard vivid descriptions of how various disasters... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2007/11/05/a_democrat_goes_to_church.thtml aa1c27c5-1fc8-44c6-8996-3c7a302446f6 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:37:36 GMT Norman Hsu's spokes-scheister now says that he wasn't trying to run, but got confused on his way to the courthouse for the hearing. http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_261234907.html I'll say he was confused.... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2007/09/19/ill_say_he_was_confused!.thtml 11eaf1f4-17cc-43ff-87d2-54a34ab139b3 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:46:13 GMT One of the reasons that we have too many laws is that we have a constitutionally mandated branch of government that exists to make laws. If Congress doesn't make laws it has no accomplishments to show to... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2007/07/14/a_constitutional_ammendment_for_beautiful_sunsets.thtml ab74100c-31a9-428e-98c8-7c724b0a104e Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:26:54 GMT From the JP newswire:For the first time in New York Lottery history lottery agents had to stop selling tickets because they ran out of blank tickets due to unexpected demand. Agents in Elmira were overwhelmed when... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2007/06/20/lottery_agents_run_out_of_tickets_because_of_evolution_convention.thtml e3c90777-6830-4780-a0ba-dc3136881040 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:18:04 GMT While the spineless Big Labor sops in the House gladly passed a bill that would allow workers to become union members without a secret ballot, the union contract for teachers in San Diego guarantees that they will get... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2007/03/09/important_things_must_be_put_to_a_vote.thtml 4c96e9b1-bdb1-4800-a7f6-116a54d4a46a Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:01:24 GMT A caller to Bill Bennett's show this morning made a very insightful observation as to why Liberals would be the ones talking about bringing back the draft. Liberals have a predisposition to believe that... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2006/11/27/kelo_for_people_-_aka_the_draft.thtml ba27f3dd-f5cd-4221-a638-4b66f48e9eee Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:54:07 GMT One of the senses of the word "corrupt" is that something has been changed, in a bad way, from its original state. Murtha for Majority Leader? Alcee Hastings for Chairman of the Intelligence Committee? Moves like... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2006/11/20/the_democrats_are_not_corrupt_in_every_sense.thtml 0d4a4f56-b30e-465a-8548-c308a19b3294 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:42:10 GMT The Heart Attack Grill, an apparent Hooters knock-off in Tempe AZ, is in a little trouble with the nanny state. It seems it is illegal for them to call their scantily clad waitresses "nurses". A law to... http://nerdusmaximus.blogtownhall.com/2006/11/17/can_we_change_all_lawmakers_titles_to_nanny.thtml 5914e21a-bb97-4ce2-b66d-4f1589567633 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:05:25 GMT