Great List! 109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress from The Progress Report Issue 11/07/2006, by Judd Legum, Faiz Shakir, Nico Pitney, Amanda Terkel and Payson Schwin We need a new Congress — here’s why: 1. Congress set a record for the fewest number of days worked — 218 between the House and Senate combined. [Link] 2. The Senate voted down a measure that urged the administration to start a phased redeployment of U.S. forces out of Iraq by the…
Police giving away guns in Tennessee. Sigh. Radio announcement via Every Stretch of the Imagination: S[…] County Fraternal Order of Police, […] Lodge #··, will host a dinner Saturday, June 24, from 11:00AM until 5:00PM at the W[…] Municipal Building. Tickets are $10.00 each and are on sale now. Donors are eligible to win one of four door prizes, including an inline muzzle-loader, a Remington .22 rifle, a Remington high-power rifle, and a Remington shotgun. You don’t have to be…
village voice > news > NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan by Sarah Ferguson City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried – September 19th, 2005 5:54 PM Sheehan was speaking in Union Square at a peaceful protest when the police hauled her off after yanking away her microphone. Zulkowitz, one of her organizers, was arrested for “failing to obtain a sound permit” (something that usually garners a summons). The police said they were responding to his “provocation.” (An updated resource…