Montana Political Blogwire

updated at 14:17

• Godwin’s Law Begets Anderson’s Law

  —The Billings Free Press

  I was poking around on some interesting websites and found this little gem. “Godwin’s Law applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one’s opponent) with Hitler or Nazis or their actions. The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering genocide, propaganda, or other [...]
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  Fetched: March 14, 2010, 2:17pm EDT
  

• Conrad, Ahoy!

  —Electric City Weblog

  Not as punishing a drive as Sidney, that is for sure.

  I’m off to the Lincoln Day dinner for Toole/Pondera/Glacier counties. Only Toole’s actually in my district, but the folks from Conrad–Rep. Llew Jones et. al.–did us Cascade County types the honor of showing up at our Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner. I [...]

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  Posted: March 14, 2010, 12:17pm EDT
  by Travis Kavulla

• The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court, Scourge of the Country

  —Montana Conservative

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  President Obama continues his unabashed and now entirely predictable march towards the global Marxist utopia as evidenced by his recent nomination of 39 year old Berkeley law professor and left-wing extremist Goodwin Liu to the U.S. 9th Circuit. Can it be any more fitting [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2010, 11:59am EDT
  by Montana Conservative

• "BIG BAD LOVE" AND SVEN BIRKERTS

  —prairiemary

  Last night’s movie was a terrific Indie flick, “Big Bad Love,” based on a book of short stories by Larry Brown. The author takes a “rhizomatous” approach to the subject of love: love of father, mother, wife, child, best friend, place -- even when the nature of the love is [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2010, 10:42am EDT
  by prairie mary

• The Misunderestimations of Weak Minds

  —4&20 blackbirds

  by JC Over at LitW, a comment thread ensued lambasting the Obama administration’s inaccurate prediction of the scale of job loss as an outcome of the stimulus bill. It started off with the usual inane comment from Eric Coobs: “Democrats trying to better the lives of everyday Americans? I don’t think so. ‘Hope and [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2010, 1:33am EST
  by JC

• City Lights: The truth hurts - Montana’s flag is badly flagging

  —City Lights

  With all the pressing issues the state of Montana is dealing with at the moment, this might not be the best time to start talking about redesigning the state flag. [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2010, 11:30pm EST