Today is March 30. On this date in 1867, the u.s. purchased Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million smackers. So if you win the lottery tonight, you can buy, like, 80 million, that is way more Alaskas Alaskas all at once than most people will themselves in your life! Also on this date in 1981, Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr. in Washington, DC. He is the only American President to have survived shot in an assassination attempt. Reagan once said "facts are stubborn things." Facts have repeatedly insisted that they are not. On this date in 1993 hit Charlie Brown his first homerun in the comic strip Peanuts. To this day, accusations of performance-enhancing hang and a pall over his victory ink. And finally today is national pencil day, in honor of which this whole post is written in a pencil. Consider this a Open Thead.
Historical recall elections for Walker, Kleefisch GAB sets | JS Online
"Election officials ordered a set of historic recall election Friday, Scott Walker the third Governor in the nation to face a recall and Rebecca Kleefisch Lieutenant Governor to make the first one face."
The "flexibility" doctrine | Charles Krauthammer
"First of all, to speak of the Russian elections in the same breath as ours is a mockery. Theirs was a rigged, predetermined farce. Putin ruled before. Putin rules after. "
American soldier dies save Afghan girl | CNN
"The official press release of Pentagon says that he died" of injury in a noncombat related incident. " But there is much more to the story. Weichel, 29, of Providence, died save the life of a little girl. "
The Franklin Center fuels rise of citizen journalism | Red alert politics
"The Franklin Center is a non-profit organization designed to work with non-traditional news sources such as non-profit journalism groups, independent activists and bloggers to help state capitals that the gap of shrinking media."
Contemporary Merriam-Webster Word of the day comes through.
atavism (AT-uh-viz-um): noun 1. a: repetition in an organism of a property or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination b: repetition of style, manner, or return to a past outlook, approach or activity 2. one that manifests atavism: throwback
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