Well, look who’s delivering this Spring’s commencement address at Keuka college:
U.S. Rep. Randy Kuhl, R-Hammondsport, will deliver the 100th commencement address at Keuka College in Yates County on May 25. Kuhl was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 and represents the 29th Congressional District. He was re-elected in 2006.
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“Randy was the [...]
One of my favorite inexplicable lines from a movie is in the Maltese Falcon when Humphrey Bogart tells a gun-toting punk “Six, two, and even, they’re selling you out, sonny.” Apparently, it’s a botched line — he was supposed to say “I’ll give you six to two odds” or something like that [...]
I can’t improve on the original title of the Washingon Post piece, which describes a disturbing phenomenon:
The sheets of paper seemed to be everywhere the lawmakers went in the Green Zone, distributed to Iraqi officials, U.S. officials and uniformed military of no particular rank. So when Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) asked a soldier [...]
We’re continuing our wall-to-wall coverage of pistol-gate by finding every D&C blog post where the controversy is mentioned. Here’s the latest from Tobin, which he tried to hide from our prying eyes by placing it in the political blog:
A lot of people write about the Web and blogs and the rest as if they [...]
Time for a break from pistol-gate….
Who cares about Separation of Church and State? Um, I do and so do a lot of other other Americans.
Yep we have the dust up in Greece over a town board perceived to favor one deity over another. At issue is favoring a particular deity rather than a prayer itself. [...]
The D&C blames the blogs for pistol-gate, but gives us no credit:
They picked off a few lines about the meeting from a blog written by a citizen adviser to the Editorial Board. The packin’ reference made it onto the New York Daily News Web site, and later the liberal site Huffington Post had this headline [...]
There’s one last thing I have to say about what Rottenchester calls the D&C’s “furious backpedaling” on pistol-gate. Why does James Lawrence give so easy on Randy Kuhl for talking about “packing”? Lawrence writes
There are a lot of people carrying pistols these days who we all should be worried about. I don’t believe Kuhl [...]
Mary Ann Akers over at the Sleuth blog at the Washington Post is writing about pistol-gate now. Ms. Akers claims a Kuhl spokesperson says Randy was kidding:
That comment was taken way out of context,” the spokeswoman, Meghan Tisinger, told the Sleuth.
She said when Congressman Kuhl told the Democrat and Chronicle editorial board that he [...]
There’s two interesting guest essays in the D&C. We’ve already discussed the one by our good friend Joe Bruno, who continues to beat what he calls “Troopergate” into the ground. Our Bruno specialists have already had at it, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t tell all of you about a new book [...]
Some readers — per the comments in my last post — seem to think the D&C has egg on its face over the pistol-gate brouhaha (whererin Congressman Randy Kuhl spoke of “packing” in order to ward off peace protesters), but I have just the opposite view. Those pieces Tom Tobin and James Lawrence [...]
Over at the D&C blogs, both Tom Tobin and James Lawrence have pieces up defending Randy Kuhl’s ill-advised remarks about “packing.” Frankly, neither piece makes much sense. Here’s Tobin:
His remark about “packing,” referring to a weapon, was completely off-handed and were not in the context of complaining about the anti-war protesters or protecting [...]