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USAT reports that as soon as the Unabomber judge took the bench on Monday, Kaczynski, in a low calm voice asked to "revisit" the issue of his attorneys, apparently referring to his desire to jettison them because they still intend to introduce non-medical evidence of his mental instability.
At the same time, this overwhelmingly liberal community, happy to jettison the Second Amendment, is steamed that Washington has gone soft on the gun lobby.
And while we're at it, isn't it time to jettison all this anal-retentive preoccupation with a balanced budget?
A true idealist would lobby the coalition hard for ground troops, as British Prime Minister Tony Blair has done, or would jettison the coalition and send in his own ground troops anyway.
When you think about it, it makes sense that some Alabamians found it hard to jettison overnight a 300-year-old custom.