Tea Party Nation prez Judson Phillips plays Amendment-Repeal Bingo, fills his card:

The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.

Surprised? Oh, come now. It was only a matter of time.

Tea Party Nation President Says It ‘Makes A Lot Of Sense’ To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners [ThinkProgress]

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A Fourth Amendment tee is an appropriate start, but if metallic-ink screen printing is readily available, we can probably come up with a couple dozen more nekkid-scanner-friendly designs. Give us a weekend to brainstorm.

And yes, they offer printed shorts, too.

4th Amendment Wear [via Weigel]

“The Supreme Court has again cast aside an appeal that raised doubts about President Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship, a grass-roots legal issue that has gained little legal or political footing, but continues to persist in the courts.” [CNN]

First the news, in case you missed it over the weekend. It was in the Times, so it must be Big:

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Somali-born teenager who thought he was detonating a car bomb at a packed Christmas tree-lighting ceremony downtown here was arrested by the authorities on Friday night after federal agents said that they had spent nearly six months setting up a sting operation.

The bomb, which was in a van parked off Pioneer Courthouse Square, was a fake — planted by F.B.I. agents as part of the elaborate sting — but “the threat was very real,” Arthur Balizan, the F.B.I.’s special agent in charge in Oregon, said in a statement released by the Department of Justice. An estimated 10,000 people were at the ceremony on Friday night, the Portland police said.

Frightening stuff, as the FBI sez:

“Our investigation shows that Mohamud was absolutely committed to carrying out an attack on a very grand scale,” said Arthur Balizan, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Oregon. “At the same time, I want to reassure the people of this community that, at every turn, we denied him the ability to actually carry out the attack.”

Whoa, hold on a sec: At every turn?

Perhaps — and we’re just spitballing here — from the very first turn?

As an Expat Oregonian — half our library is from Powell’s, just a few blocks from Pioneer Courthouse Square — we take more than a passing interest in this case. So let’s take a leisurely stroll through the indictment…

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Leslie Nielsen, ‘Airplane!’ and ‘Naked Gun’ star, dies at 84 [Entertainment Weekly]

Title: “America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag”

Author: Sarah Palin

Rank: 8

Blurb: “Ranging widely over American history, culture, and current affairs, Governor Palin reflects on the key values that have been such an essential part of her own life and that continue to inform her vision of America’s future.”

Review: “I thought this was going to be a book of virtue and faith. Instead it was a book in which Sarah Palin puts down anybody and everybody who does not agree with her philosophies and beliefs.”

Customers Also Bought: “Barbara Bush: A Memoir,” by Barbara Bush

Footnote: Mama Rose Grizzly scores a difficult Triple Whore Score with a photo of Trig, Tripp and Bristol on the Amazon page.

America by Heart [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Cookie Monster announced this week that he would like to host SNL.

Which is a, um, monster inside joke, because the Muppets were on SNL from the very first episode.

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