Day: May 12, 2010

Verbatim

Jon Ponder

Ms. Kagan is likewise a surprising choice because she lacks judicial experience. Most Americans believe that prior judicial experience is a necessary credential for a Supreme Court Justice.

– Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, May 12, 2010

I mean, one reason I felt so strongly about Harriet Miers’s qualifications is I thought she would fill some very important gaps in the Supreme Court. Because right now you have people who’ve been federal judges, circuit judges most of their lives, or academicians. And what you see is a lack of grounding in reality and common sense that I think would be very beneficial.

– Sen. Cornyn, Oct. 27, 2005

Verbatim

Buck Banks

I’ve honestly only seen upside at this point. Wherever we go people say that my grandfather was their favorite president.

— Christopher Nixon Cox (R), quoted by the Washington Post, on using “his family’s political legacy as a springboard to political office.”

Your Stimulus Dollars At Work: The Sunset Strip Is Being Resurfaced for the First Time in 75 Years

Jon Ponder

Sunset Strip at Laurel Ave. Left: Venerable strip joint, Body Shop
Sunset Strip at Laurel Ave.; at left, the Body Shop
The Sunset Strip is one of the most famous streets on the planet, so you might assume it has been resurfaced every now and then over the 104 years it has existed — but you would be wrong.

Thanks to federal stimulus funding, the Strip — the 12 blocks of Sunset Boulevard that traverse the city of West Hollywood — is being repaved for the first time since the mid-1930s, when the dusty dirt road first graded in 1906 was paved using poured cement.

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