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Then again, the Republicans are fielding a motley crew right now: if you count Newt Gingrich, who'll probably join the fray in the fall, the four leading candidates have had nine marriages among them: Giuliani three, Gingrich three, McCain two and Romney one. The Republican faithful are left with a devil of a choice: moderate candidates who live like liberals, or religious conservatives who talk like liberals...
...peers whose only qualification for public office is that they inherited titles originally conferred on their ancestors back in the days when nobody saw the harm in rewarding loyalty with the odd tongue-twisting honorific and a few dozen serfs. Together with archbishops, bishops and legal chiefs, this motley group of hereditary and appointed peers is responsible for proposing, amending and revising British laws. On Wednesday, with MPs' resolve seemingly strengthened by allegations that such peerages had been dangled in front of political donors, the House of Commons voted to replace the House of Lords with a shockingly modern invention...
...Like all language or thought police, the nigger-nazis are humorless snobs who dream of a world without toilets. They are also caught in the ancient and reductionist view that the black community is little more than a motley crew of victims. Whenever someone uses nigger, they break out into breathless stories of lynchings, lunch counters and police dogs. They then assert that we nigger-users are doing little more than confirming and perpetuating our own ignorance and participating in a racist conspiracy...
...discussion," as the Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov succinctly put it in 2005. When people are denied the right to discuss their life on the parliament floor or in the media, they're forced into the street - and into strange alliances. The Other Russia, in fact, is an unlikely motley amalgamation: members of the traditional democratic and liberal Yabloko party; new liberal factions, The United Civic Front and The Popular Democratic Union, led by former world chess champion Gary Kasparov and Putin's former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov respectively; and of the left radical extremist National Bolshevik Party...
...they have. Since breaking ground two winters ago, Shots in the Dark has become a motley circus, filled with its own distinct set of acts and performers with Bradley serving as ringmaster. The blog, at richardbradley.net, provides those sitting at their desks anywhere from Mather House to Manhattan with a view of machinations in Mass. Hall and an ear to whispering throughout the Yard...