Feds spending $27 million on lower-case lettering NYC street signs

lThe Obama administration, not content with a wasting $20 million and counting on what I call stimulus campaign signs, thinks New York City needs new street signs. So as Publius Forum reports, the signs need to say "Broadway" instead of "BROADWAY."

Cost: $27 million.

Why can't they replace them one at a time? The signs are never stolen, vandalized, or damaged in vehicle accidents?  I mean, this is New York.

UPDATE: I mixed up upper-case versus lower case on an earlier version of this post.

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PASen: Toomey 49% -- Sestak 40%

Although he falls short of the 50 percent mark, Republican Pat Toomey continues to lead his Democratic opponent Rep. Joe Sestak in the Pennsylvania US Senate race, 49 to 40 percent, according to Rasmussen.

The Great Correction is coming!

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Rahm leaves for Chicago

White House Chief of Staff Rahm "Dead Fish" Emanuel is leaving his job today to move back to Chicago--so he can run for mayor of America's third largest city. Don't be surprised if Chicago's business leaders line up behind the onetime congressman from the Northwest Side. Rahm's temperment is explosive, but so is current mayor Richard M. Daley's. He has a reputation for getting things done--and isn't viewed as much as a radical as President Obama. Remember, after the election of Republican Scott Brown to the US Senate, Emanuel wanted to used an step-by-step approach with ObamaCare.

Pete Rouse, who was a longtime aide to former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle before joining Obama's team in 2005, is the new White House chief-of-staff. He's the ultimate inside-the-beltway creature.

More "change" I can't believe in.

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ILSen: Mark Kirk ad, "Her Debt"

If you are a baby, you are too young to read this--which is just as well--newborns already owe the federal government $43,000.

From the Mark Kirk for US Senate campaign:



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Michigan Dem on health care for end of life: "We have to decide how we're gonna advocate those resources"

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) gained the ire of millions of Americans--and many of his constituents--when he voted for ObamaCare in exchange for a flimsy executive order banning federal funding for abortion. Facing an uncertain political future, Stupak chose to retire rather than run for reelection.

Gary McDowell is the Democratic nominee to succeed Stupak in the sprawling First Congressional District, which includes the state's upper peninsula and the northern third of its lower one.

McDowell was caught on video discussing what's called an "inconvenient truth." Regarding health care for "end of life," McDowell says, "We have to decide how we're gonna advocate those resources."



Dr. Dan Benishek is the Republican nominee in the First, he favors repealing ObamaCare.

A McDowell poll has Benishek leading 41-38 percent, with conservative third party candidate Glenn Wilson getting 12 percent. RealClearPolitics lists this race as "Leans Republican."

This is another race that one year ago no one saw as a Republican pick-up. But northern Michiganders have a history of voting Democratic, despite their socially-conservative values.

Related post:

Marathon Pundit's Upper Peninsula Upventure

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