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Here's a soppy, tear-jerker appeal designed to con you out of your hard-earned money, from a senate re-election candidate who says he pays $12 for what looks to us like a $5 haircut. (I've got him beat: I only pay $11 for a similarly bad haircut, but I do live in a red state, so you would expect to pay less.) This is a great example of a sob-story, identity-politics (let's keep sending him back to Washington because he and his family were too stupid to keep him from cutting off three fingers) appeal for your money.  This is Jon Tester. "…who lost three fingers on (his) left hand while working in our family butcher shop." Despite (or because of) his family's obvious ignorance of  child labor laws, he wants to be a U. S. Senator.  Jon also touts his "collection of dirt-stained T-shirts"  Three missing fingers and dirty shirts are the only  qualifications he puts forth, and that's after already serving in the Senate for sixteen years.  If you send M...

Like most of the fear-mongering emails that the Democrats send to their faithful, this is an "urgent" matter. Oh, really? How can something that is not true, and would represent no threat to anyone even if it were true, be "urgent?" Well, the simple answer to that question is that the Democrats always have to have a current (and usually totally false) crisis in order to raise funds—funds that will not be spent to fight an imaginary battle, but funds that will go straight to the bank accounts of both the Democrat hierarchy and the organization that sent the email, in this case the DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee). To My Dear, Ignorant, Democrat Friends:  Allow me to explain why it is not true that "Republicans aim to decimate abortion access."  First and foremost, the Supreme Court did not ban abortion, it simply said that abortion is an issue that should be decided by the individual states, and that the federal government has no constitution...