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Leaders end session a week early so they can go home and campaign to be re-elected just to come back and do nothing for another 2 years:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leaving behind a pile of unfinished work, members of the scandal-rocked U.S. Congress adjourned and went home on Saturday to ask voters to re-elect them in [...]

But a Muslim student gets to wear her Islamic attire in gym class, while everyone else has to follow the dress code rules:

CNSNews.com) – A Muslim ninth-grader in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington will be allowed to wear Islamic attire in gym class, thanks to the intervention of an Islamic civil rights group. The [...]

Moving from the “financial services industry” into politics is not a good idea especially when the company that you own and are touting has a track record like this: LINK HERE

I wonder how long it will take to find the many investors who lost their “life savings” in vFinance, Inc?
I did see that Tim Mahoney [...]

Nice job, Ahnold:

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have allowed illegal immigrants to get driver’s licenses, saying the state should wait for federal regulations designed to combat terrorism.
Schwarzenegger said his administration was working with federal officials to develop the federal guidelines for the REAL ID Act of 2001, and to get [...]

But a Rhode Island gay couple can marry in Massachusetts:

A gay couple from Rhode Island has the right to marry in Massachusetts because laws in their home state do not expressly prohibit same-sex marriage, a judge ruled Friday.
Wendy Becker and Mary Norton of Providence argued that a 1913 law that forbids out-of-state residents from marrying [...]

But a Dad can teach his 13 yr old daughter about polygamy:

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A father may teach his young daughter about his religious belief in polygamy despite his ex-wife’s objections, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Thursday.
The 5-1 decision by the state’s highest court said Stanley M. Shepp, whose Mormon fundamentalist beliefs endorse polygamy, [...]

Right now, the Republican Party in Florida is working to determine who will go against the “token democrat” who is running in Florida-16. Yes, Mahoney is/was the “token Democrat” put in that race.
According to The Corner, the Mahoney Campaign has $226,000 of debts and only $343,755 of cash. So the Republican nominee will be starting [...]

This is an interesting article about “progressive” efforts to develop new messaging and electoral strategies. However, I enjoyed this part the most:
Asurprise guest at the meeting was Bill Clinton, whose agenda seemed to be protecting his wife. But things didn’t work out quite as planned. When Guy Saperstein, a retired lawyer from Oakland, asked Clinton [...]

From this morning’s San Francisco Chronic, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein say (I’m paraphrasing): “The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Produce rotting in the field! $5 for a stalk of broccoli! Mass starvation! We are doomed!”
The truth? Low-paid illegal work force has little impact on prices.
You might [...]

Latest VA poll from SUSA:
In an election for the United States Senate in Virginia today, 9/29/06, incumbent Republican George Allen maintains an advantage over Democrat challenger James Webb, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for WUSA-TV Washington DC and WDBJ-TV Roanoke. In a 3-day rolling average of interviews conducted Tuesday 9/26/06 through Thursday 9/28/06, [...]

The question is what is next for Florida’s 16th Congressional District. Fortunately, there is much detail spelled out in Florida law, so Republicans are in a better position in Florida compared to Texas.
The first question is who goes on the ballot and who picks that person. Here is the Statute:
In the event that death, resignation, [...]

The pro-amnesty Republicans said it could not be done:
Leaving President Bush’s proposed immigration overhaul in disarray, Republicans on Friday won congressional approval for fencing nearly one-third of the Southwest border and prepared to head into the November elections with a tough border security message.
Rushing to finish work before leaving on a six-week campaign recess, the [...]

This whole mess with former Congressman requires a little breathing room to sort out the facts and determine where everyone stands.
First, we know that ABC broke the story of lewd messaging between the Congressman and a sixteen year old male Congressional Page:
A 16-year-old male former congressional page concerned about the appropriateness of an e-mail exchange [...]

Sorry guys but I can not participate in the comments but I thought I would throw out an Open Thread.
Hopefully, the other guests will keep this open thread bumped.
Here is a question that ties into other posts today.
Are we better off today because we held our ground and forced the Seante to submit to the [...]

I don’t like rewarding Gore with attention. I keep promising myself not to bother talking about his lunatic remarks when they come because it only seems to get him the attention he desperately craves, a trait I think he learned from his former boss. But I can’t resist.

- Drudge -
Former U.S. Vice President Al [...]