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Alec Baldwin‘s manslaughter case is finally over. On Monday, special prosecutor Kari Morrissey announced she has withdrawn her appeal of a judge’s order dismissing the case. The decision came after the state attorney general’s office said that it “did not intend to exhaustively pursue the appeal on behalf of the prosecution,” the prosecutor said. In a separate statement Monday night, the attorney general’s office said that it “declined to appeal” the case “in light of the significant procedural irregularities” identified by the judge.

It was noted by someone smarter than me that if the President can now systematically choose which laws he wants to enforce and how to enforce those laws (as in Executive Amnesty), perhaps the next Republican president can do the same. Here are some examples, and I'm sure you guys can come up with more: 1) A FLAT TAX. No, we don't change our tax laws, we simply tell the IRS not to prosecute anyone that has already paid at least 20% of his income in taxes. So if a person makes $1M, and would otherwise owe $340K, now all...

Washington - President-elect Barack Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas. John Podesta, Mr. Obama's transition chief, said yesterday Mr. Obama is reviewing President Bush's executive orders on those issues and others as he works to undo policies enacted during eight years of Republican rule. He said the president can use such orders to move quickly on his own. "There's a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for...

CNN reports Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) will hold a press conference today at 3 p.m. in Washington, D.C. to discuss his recent traffic incident on Capitol Hill.