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Presidential Poison

Please click on the title of this post to read an extremely important editorial.

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Spengler Takes Off His Mask

MC loves Spengler and if you don't know who we are talking about then you have got some work to do! But it's all pleasure. At any rate, Gates of Vienna has the story about who the real person is behind the name Spengler. Enjoy by clicking on the title of this post.

Dorothy Rabinowitz: Obama Blames America

Click on the title of this post to read her; there's none better.

Is Paris Burning?

Not yet; in the meantime there's just lots of random violence on buses and other public transportation. A generalized sense of anxiety pervades society. It's called anxiogène. Lovely. Click on the title of this post to read all about it.

Coleman's Spin & Cringe: Three Judges Didn't Understand Us

The pathetic Coleman legal team abased itself even further today when in a conference call Ben Ginsberg (who never appeared pro hac vice, ie, as an attorney of record from another state, hmmm, why not?) said that the three judge panel "misunderstood" their arguments. But of course! It's the judges' fault, not Tony Trimble's or Fritz Knaak's.

He went on to say that the panel did not address several arguments; in fact, he claimed that it avoided them. Having bored himself to tears of frustration, one half of MC who spent the late afternoon reading the carefully written 68 page decision must disagree. The panel did address both equal protection claims and due process claims. Ben may not have liked the panel's analysis (the losing side rarely does) but it's beneath his paygrade to say otherwise, even if one is a hired gun. Posturing for a federal court case is sheer hubris: the certificate of election will most likely issue after the Minnesota Supreme Court has heard this appeal. MC's hunch is that it will affirm.

The recount was not stolen. It was lost through legal incompetence (not Ginsberg's).

Repeat as needed.

Click on the title of this post to see a summary of the conference call.

Contest Court Panel Rules Franken Won Senate Election

In a decision that could surprise only those who had not been paying attention, the three judge contest panel decided today that Al Franken won more lawfully cast ballots than did Norm Coleman. Click on the title of this post to read the decision. The election was not stolen: Norm Coleman's frightfully incompetent legal team lost it. Reversal on appeal seems unlikely.