“How’s that leave me alone personal liberty thing working out for you?”

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Rachel Maddow finds herself in the middle of an over-reach by a conservative group.  She has found that she is the subject of a FOIA request at 3 state universities. 

Maddow is quoted in the  Huffington Post:

The latest incarnation of this breed of conservatism weirdly involves this show,” Maddow said. As she described it, a conservative think tank in Michigan called the Mackinac Center submitted a FOIA request seeking any emails from labor professors at the University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Michigan State University. The center demanded any email that includes the words “Scott Walker,” “Wisconsin,” “Madison,” and “Maddow.”

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America at Not-War: The President clarifies our “Squirmish”

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 America at Not-War

There is something for everyone in the Tuesday night Jon Stewart segment. Want to make fun of Joe Biden?  check!    Want to hate Obama?  check!    Criticism America?  check! Salude America?  check!  Make fun of Sarah Palin and her Palinisms?  check! 

 

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Stewart does a great JFK imitation. Palin does a great Palin.  And no, it isn’t an Obama Doctrine.   What president hasn’t been cutting and pasting!   The Delicate Dance of the Presidency is highlighted. 

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So was there something here for you?  Stewart even addressed Emma’s concern.  You gotta love a guy who covers everything.   Squirmish?  OMG.  Dan Quayle has returned. 

VA Tech fined over failed campus security in 2007 massacre

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As VA Tech continues to heal from the worst massacre in US history, they got dealt another blow, this time by the US Department of Education.  According to the Washington Post:

The federal government said Tuesday that it plans to issue the maximum possible fine against Virginia Tech — $55,000 — for violations of a campus safety law in connection with the 2007 shooting rampage that left more than 30 students and teachers dead.

A federal official wrote in a letter to Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger that the penalty for failing to provide timely warnings about the threat to the campus on the day of the massacre should be greater.

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