Part four or five ….

This is really funny. And enraging.
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Which means, fellow Americans, that Chicago didn’t. I think Ed Brayton is suggesting that soon we’ll be hearing about how the Obamas ruined our chances, but the word on the street is a bit different. It is generally thought that Chicago’s best chance was to get the African votes, and these votes didn’t come through at least in part as a reaction from 8 years of being treated like crap by the US.

Turns out, according to a new book by a speechwriter during the Bush administration, there was talk of honoring [J.K. Rowling] with the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom a few years ago but the idea was a non-starter in the White House. The former administration had decision-makers who spoke up to “actually object to giving the author J.K. Rowling a presidential medal because the Harry Potter books encouraged witchcraft,” writes Matthew Latimer, author of “Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor.”

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I wonder how long it’s going to take the Obamas to scrape the stupid off the walls.

I discussed the Hendrickson Incident here (and now Josh Henderson has come to Quiche Moraine to defend himself from the Hippies from Uptown) but I had missed, until Hendrickson himself pointed it out to me, this coverage from the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.

To see Hendrickson’s response, and some great “examples” of the use of “quotation” marks, here’s Henderson’s “blog” post on the matter.

I suggest you put on a pair of these before visiting Josh’s site.

… if Nate Silver’s analysis is correct.
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From Mn Progressive Project

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