Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Friday McBush Bashing (Democratic Convention Edition)

Seems Democrats were busy with something or other the past few days.

[More or less reverse chronological order this week — the newest thing first instead of last]

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Gov. Crist Does Florida No Favors With This One

Freed from tacking to the center for his national ambitions — or smarting from being rejected for being insufficiently red-meat conservative perhaps — Gov. Crist has pulled a Jeb Bush:

Figure in Clinton Impeachment Is Named to Florida Supreme Court: In a move that drew praise from conservatives, Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday named to the State Supreme Court a former congressman who played a major role in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
The appointee, Charles T. Canady, 54, spent eight years in Congress before being named an appeals court judge in 2002 by Gov. Jeb Bush.

While in Congress, Mr. Canady was one of the House managers who handled the impeachment case against Mr. Clinton.

This is a divisive appointment.

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Ubiquity Looks Cool

Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Ubiquity.

The Borg marches on?

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The Speech

In case you missed history: Barack Obama at the 2008 DNC,

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Calculate Your Obama Tax Cut

ObamaTaxCut.com lets you calculate your Obama tax cut — more or less.

They explain the basis for the numbers here.

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The Real Election Begins Today

Hope is hard work.

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