Here's some delayed justice; it was 13 years ago when a black Texan named James Byrd was tied up and dragged behind a car, killing him. If memory serves, black liberal groups tried to link that to then-Gov. Bush in the 2000 campaign, as if he liked the idea of drawing and quartering black folks for sport.
One of the guys behind that killing for racist sport is due to be executed tonight. You don't see quite the hue and cry over this execution nor see many calls for Gov. Perry to stall (he can't pardon as TX governor) his visit to Jack the Dripper.
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It's a bit dated, but the incoming PM in Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, has hard-left British Labour leader Neil Kinnock as her father-in-law; Kinnock made Margaret Thatcher look moderate in comparison in Labour's pre-Blair era. Her Social Democrats are poised to head up a leftist coalition, replacing a conservative coaltion with a strong anti-immigrant faction that has helped keep Denmark out of the Euro to this point.
If you want hope and change in Denmark, you can go to Helle.
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Another interesting story that I haven't seen follow-up on from earlier in the week was a series of raids in Ohio and Indiana, where an IHOP was a bit too international with its staff; the FBI and ICE were looking at a number of IHOPs centered on Toledo with an Arab-American owner.
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Another old story that was in my blog-story bucket was a proposed PA law to have their Electoral College vote done by congressional district a la Maine and Nebraska. That would give the Republicans about 10 electoral votes and save the Republicans from having to get a smaller state like Iowa or Colorado to put them over the top.
If PA goes through with its plan, getting Ohio, Florida, Virginia and North Carolina and Indiana would be enough to get an Electoral College majority, as the McCain states plus those gets you to 265, with 270 being the magic number.
Of course, Democrats don't like it, but Republicans have both the legislature and the governorship and could make it so barring a mass road trip to Youngstown by the left wing of the legislature.
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