- Wisconsin Justice David Prosser has suffered a stunning setback in his effort to keep his seat on the bench so he can "complement" Gov. Scott Walker:
?Wisconsin, please remember to vote for Justice Prosser on April 5,? Palin tweeted, urging her supporters to go to Justice David Prosser?s reelection website.
- The battle over when Florida will hold its 2012 Republican presidential primary continues.
- Offered without comment:
A move by Minnesota Republicans to repeal school integration laws resulted in heated debate about the decades-long program that aims to diversify schools in the Twin Cities metro area and Duluth. During a floor debate on elimination of desegregation programs Thursday, Sen. Dan Hall, R-Burnsville, said, "I watched Minneapolis get destroyed, so I not only didn?t want my kids in the school system. I took them out of Minneapolis because they ruined our neighborhoods with integration and [de]segregation."
- What a shock:
At a time most employees can barely remember their last substantial raise, median CEO pay jumped 27% in 2010 as the executives? compensation started working its way back to prerecession levels, a USA TODAY analysis of data from GovernanceMetrics International found. Workers in private industry, meanwhile, saw their compensation grow just 2.1% in the 12 months ended December 2010, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Watch what seems to be the number one concern of the dozens of teabaggers who gathered yesterday in Washington.
- This is different. Here's Republican Rep. Alan Hale, from the floor of the Montana legislature:
These DUI laws are not doing our small businesses in our state any good at all. They are destroying them. They are destroying a way of life that has been in Montana for years and years.
- Are you a west coast beachcomber? If so:
The biggest haul may come in one to three years when, scientists say, wind and ocean currents eventually will push some of the massive debris from Japan's tsunami and earthquake onto the shores of the U.S. West Coast. [...]
If the items aren't blown ashore by winds or get caught up in another oceanic gyre, they'll continue to drift in the North Pacific loop and complete the circle in about six years, Ebbesmeyer said.
- And more news from out west:
Western lawmakers said they will keep pushing to lift federal protections for gray wolves despite a proposed settlement between some environmentalists and the Obama administration. [...]
The deal would lift endangered species protections for about 1,250 wolves and allow hunting in Idaho and Montana. Protections would be retained, at least temporarily, for almost 400 wolves in Wyoming and portions of Utah, Washington and Oregon.
- Privacy protections or not, this is just creepy:
Google is working on a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people's faces in order to access their personal information, a director for the project said this week.
- Rest easy: "Mad Men" will be back for two more years.
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