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Synopsis: An Amazon Original series: They work in the Senate. They live in the house - Alpha House. Created by Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury, Tanner '88).

I have long been a fan of the Marx Brothers and have found Duck Soup a particular favorite. I enjoy it for the humor but it is viewed by many as biting political satire. Tonight in watching for the first time since Obama took office I found Barack H. Obama's philosophy in Rufus T. Firefly's first song. These are the laws of my administration No one's allowed to smoke (he's holding a cigar) Or tell a dirty joke (fakes whispering to a lady) And whistling is forbidden... (he whistles) If chewing gum is chewed (he pretends to chew gum) The...

This is a link to an article on the government claiming a "savings" of $1.6 BN. The savings is based on not spending all of the $14.7 BN they budgeted. Nice theory but if the 2000 Census only cost $4.5 billion then how does spending $13.1 BN constitute a savings?

A Cranberry man who is charged with hiding his mother's body in a freezer so he could continue to collect her monthly retirement checks is going to trial. At a preliminary hearing today for Philip Faxon Royer Jr., police officers recounted how the unemployed former teacher had stuffed the body of his 90-year-old mother into a cooler, then had frozen it in a basement freezer.

kattracks posted an article about the gag order for celebs. I say we take the month of April and refuse to: attend movies, buy CDs, buy or rent DVDs, watch network television (or CNN or MSNBC) and send these celebrities a message.I know Freepers across the country could get "Entertainment is History Month" going across the country.

Senate Democrats sent Lt. Gov. John Wilder to serve his 17th term as speaker of the Senate. According to Bonna de la Cruz a writer for the Tennessean, this is Wilder's statement to his fellow Democrats:"Thank you, I care about you. You make a difference. You make a little difference. A little difference is the difference. That's enough to be the difference."

Some of you may remember Phil Valentine (http://members.home.net/philvalentine). He is the DJ that led the horn-honking campaign that stopped the Tennesse income tax last year. The campaign was featured in the latest American Spectator. Phil has a new campaign, he wants to make Al Gore our national tree. The Arbor Day Foundation has a campaign to vote for America's National Tree and Phil has write-in campaign going for Al Gore. Let's help put Al over the top. Go to www.arborday.com and vote for Al. Let's help Al win and election and jump-start his stalled political career!

Given the Reverend Jackson's very public calls for protests against the Supreme Court's decision, if things get out of hand who should be responsible for resulting injuries, property damage, and potential fatalities? Since Jesse has placed himself in the position of being the ring-leader of civil unrest could he be sued for damages? Freeper lawyers, what would be the basis for suits and how many different states might have statutes that could lead to liability for property damage and personal injury?

WASHINGTON – Pentagon IG finds defense officials violated Privacy Act in releasing details from Linda Tripp's personnel file.