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Special Elections

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The real political nerds follow special elections for hints of what is to come in 2022. There's been a few. The most important one was for New Mexico-1, replacing Deb Haaland. As it turned out, a relative moderate named Melanie Stansbury won the Democratic primary, so...

The end

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Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Sunday defended his decision to vote against a sweeping voting rights bill and reiterated his opposition to gutting the filibuster, declaring in the strongest terms yet that he is not willing to change Senate rules to help his party push through much of President Joe Biden's...
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Music Notes

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Paul noted Dylan's 80th birthday with a couple of covers. That got me to thinking of what I think are 5 of my favorite Dylan covers. Starting with the best Dylan cover ever. https://www.youtube.com/embed/LafY4c93wzU https://www.youtube.com/embed/crd-jZqpSHk https://www.youtube.com/embed/kLxHMQZn8ag https://www.youtube.com/embed/bqsYO0Ftr3w https://www.youtube.com/embed/ts20YjRsjfA Also, this Rolling Stone list of their Top...
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The end of gun control in America

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RBG's failure to retire strategically will have a lot of grim consequences, and this is one of them: A federal judge Friday overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms.U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego...
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