The Tea Party hopes you never learn about this.
Friday, August 06, 2010
The U.S. Senate has passed S. 632 — the Firearms Excise Tax Improvement Act — co-sponsored by Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Mike Crapo (R-ID).
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The bill now goes to the President for his signature.
[You may do better trying to track it under the number of the bill that really passed, H.R. 5552.]
Did your local newspaper cover the story?
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Sometimes the only bastion of sanity on the editorial pages is the editorial cartoon. David Horsey at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has good one’s all the time, and especially over the past few weeks of the Congressional recess.
But, did the P-I actually print* this one?
Cartoon by David Horsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, copyright 2009; August 22, 2009
Cartoon by David Horsey, August 22, 2009, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (on-line); Copyright to Seattle P-I and David Horsey.
* Well, of course they didn’t actually print it . . . publish? post? release?
Special tip of the old scrub brush to Blue Ollie, who reposted this cartoon and thereby preserved the image.
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Ed Darrell on Texas's Colorado River
Come on in, the water's fine. Come often: Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 