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[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Apparently there was a Nixon library and birthplace in Yorba Linda, the ”most kicked around” of the presidential libraries according to the LosAngeles Times. The library was so hokey that visitors were lectured onhow Watergate was a conspiracy to bring down the president, a claim sooutrageous that people were “not sure whether to laugh or cry.” The government tore down the old facility and is starting over. Probably a wise move.

Speaking of not being sure whether to laugh or cry, what do we make of Gov. Schwarzenegger’s unusual habit hiring back old Gray Davis staffers? The San Diego Union Tribune reports that half a dozen of Arnold’s topaides held key positions in the previous administration, makingpartisan GOPers cringe. But Tony Quinn of the California Target Booksummed it up well: “Schwarzenegger is a bright guy. He figured out thatthe Republican Party isn’t relevent to where the state is going.”

The U.S. Supreme Court took one step toward restoring basic civil liberties in this country by agreeing to hear a challenge to the MilitaryCommissions Act, the LA Times editorialized today. The case, relatingto a deemed “enemy combatant” at Guantainamo Bay puts on trial theflagrant abuses of habeus corpus under Bush’s watch, the Times says.

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