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I bet that would have a deterrent affect much more than any mamby-pamby exclusion rule!
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Good Faith Exception and Changing Law: Misunderstanding “Good Faith” 2010
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I bet that would have a deterrent affect much more than any mamby-pamby exclusion rule!
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Good Faith Exception and Changing Law: Misunderstanding “Good Faith” 2010
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I bet that would have a deterrent affect much more than any mamby-pamby exclusion rule!
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Good Faith Exception and Changing Law: Misunderstanding “Good Faith” 2010
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I bet that would have a deterrent affect much more than any mamby-pamby exclusion rule!
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Good Faith Exception and Changing Law: Misunderstanding “Good Faith” 2010
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But at least he doesn't mamby-pamby about his party, as Rep. Glenn Nye of Norfolk does.
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No, AL, it was the same mamby-pamby "I apologize if you were offended" non-apology in both cases.
Today's blogging has a theme... I see. Ann Althouse 2009
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Maybe Baltar will be a straight-up villain this time and not some mamby-pamby cult leader with groupies who ends being gulp - an *angel*
VARIANTS: BATTLESTAR MOVIE - GLEN A LARSON VERSION radii 2009
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Unlike someone like WEbb, who would have brought some real-world street cred to the campaign, we have mamby-pamby Bidan, who was a senator essentially all his life.
Biden Offers Testament To Obama's Character And Toughness 2009
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He will play mamby-pamby with McCain while McCain knifes him in public.
McCain: Obama Wants To Lose In Iraq Because Of His "Ambition" 2009
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The bottom line, he argued on Bill O'Reilly's radio show, is that, "all this mamby-pamby, you know, limp-wristedness going on, on our domestic shores is compromising our ability to win the 'war on terror.'"
David Fiderer: Sexual Perversity in Philadelphia: How Michael Smerconish Frames the War on Terror 2008
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