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By TChris

• Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has finished serving his sentence for obstructing justice. He's on his way to Texas for a job interview with an unidentified employer. Perhaps he's applying for a brush-clearing job at George Bush's ranch. Now that Bush doesn't have to look like "regular people," he's likely to abandon that camera-friendly project.

• Norm Coleman caught a break yesterday when a three judge panel ruled that Coleman can argue that 4,800 absentee ballots should be counted in his Senate race against Al Franken. The ruling did not give Coleman the opportunity to have 11,000 rejected ballots reconsidered, as he requested, but it was significantly more favorable than the 650 ballots that Franken's team wanted to remain in play.

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• Defenders of Wildlife has enlisted Ashley Judd as the face of its campaign to oppose Gov. Sarah Palin's plan to expand the aerial killing of Alaskan wolves. Palin responded by calling Defenders of Wildlife an "extreme fringe group." Does that mean Ashley Judd is palling around with terrorists?

• Dr. Trent Pierce, appointed by Mike Huckabee to chair the Arkansas State Medical Board, was the victim of an explosive device that blew up his car and left him critically injured. The motive for the apparent bombing is unknown.

• The Beanie Babies formerly known as "Marvelous Malia" and "Sweet Sasha" will henceforth be named "Marvelous Mariah" and "Sweet Sydney." The mother of the original Malia and Sasha is pleased.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 04, 2009 (boomark / email).