Friday, November 19, 2010

The Seventeenth Summary 11-19-2010 AM

The Volokh Conspiracy » Recall of U.S. Senators Is ...
By Eugene Volokh
The relevant constitutional provision is the Seventeenth Amendment, though the issue would have been similar under the pre-Seventeenth-Amendment constitutional provisions, which provided that senators would be elected by state ...

Senator Reid to seek START ratification this year
Reuters
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) listens to a question from a reporter during a news conference in Las Vegas, Nevada November 3, 2010. ...

The Oppositional Defense of Republican Senator Leader McConnell for a Ban on ...
Coffetoday
Congress got back on Monday to a new political scandal, with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell admitting to a highlight ...

Senator Dodd undone – tweeted and deleted
Reuters Blogs (blog)
“U love torturing me w this shit” was tweeted on Senator Christopher Dodd's Twitter account @SenChrisDodd. Then came the tweet ”From Dodd Staff – Apologies ...

Bob Edgar: Whose Side Is Your Senator on?
By Bob Edgar
Whose side is our Senate on? Hedge fund billionaires, oil executives and health insurance honchos looking to secretly buy our elections; or the American people who have a right to know who's behind the spending?

Senator Jay Rockefeller Wishes FCC Would Shut Down Fox News
Fox News
A powerful Democratic senator, pointing the finger at cable news for a politically toxic climate in Washington, unleashed a stunning tirade in which he ...

2 comments:

danq said...

I like this "summary" idea you have here.

We can make "summary" posts of the big government, free speech, etc. stuff in the news.

We can make other individual posts either editorials, history, activism efforts, or other material specific to the 17th.

This way it looks more like a 17th blog than a regular blog.

Brian said...

Thanks Dan.