{"id":582644,"date":"2010-05-27T23:01:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T03:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=13986"},"modified":"2010-05-27T23:01:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T03:01:24","slug":"incumbents-words-and-strange-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582644","title":{"rendered":"Incumbents, Words And Strange Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>*3 down, 532 to go. <\/strong>It  looks like it\u2019s going to be a tough year for incumbents. And it\u2019s about time. Conservatives  in Utah said  \u201cno thanks\u201d to Bob Bennett\u2019s attempt to turn the Senate seat there into a  lifetime sinecure. Democrats in Pennsylvania  told Arlen Specter to return to private life, despite Barack Obama\u2019s  less-than-all-out endorsement. In Kentucky,  Rand Paul overwhelmingly defeated the Republican establishment\u2019s hand-picked  nominee. So much for the media argument that the Tea Party movement is just a  tiny, ineffective fringe. Go get \u2018em, guys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Which words do you  see more often? <\/strong><i>CNN<\/i>  contributor and Redstate.com blogger Erick Erickson says that the words \u201cIslam\u201d  and \u201cterrorism\u201d are seldom used in the same news stories. On the other hand, he  reports, \u201cyou\u2019re more likely to see the words \u2018racist\u2019 and \u2018Republican\u2019  together in the newspapers these days.\u201d And on TV, too, Mr. Erickson\u2014including  that most unbalanced network you work for, <i>CNN<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Some strange  things up north.<\/strong> I\u2019m just back from five days in Montreal  where I was the emcee for an investment conference. It\u2019s a gorgeous city,  filled with history. But they sure do things differently up there. These  stories appeared in one section of a newspaper on one day: When a woman was arrested  for shooting her husband she said she was innocent of any wrongdoing\u2026 because  she had mistaken him for a bear. Another woman is suing her cell phone company  because her monthly bill (which her husband saw) listed all of her calls to her  lover. And finally, officials in Ontario  are asking for help in collecting unpaid parking tickets. Seems the  municipality has more than $1 billion worth of outstanding tickets. Sure glad those  kinds of things could never happen in this country, aren\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p><em>&mdash;Chip Wood <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*3 down, 532 to go. It looks like it\u2019s going to be a tough year for incumbents. And it\u2019s about time. Conservatives in Utah said \u201cno thanks\u201d to Bob Bennett\u2019s attempt to turn the Senate seat there into a lifetime sinecure. Democrats in Pennsylvania told Arlen Specter to return to private life, despite Barack Obama\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}