Eric Florack on November 26th, 2006

PowerLine:

During this year’s political campaign, Republicans accused the Democrats of having no ideas other than opposition to whatever President Bush is for. To counter that perception, Nancy Pelosi announced a legislative program the centerpieces of which were raising the

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Eric Florack on November 26th, 2006

-(Newsmax)- Whistle-blowers tipped off the government to $1.3 billion worth of fraud cases over the past year, largely at hospitals or other health care providers, the Justice Department said Tuesday.In all, the department recovered $3.1 billion in settlements –

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Eric Florack on November 26th, 2006

Good news for you folks who read BitsBlog offline.
I’ve got the RSS and ATOM feeds going, in the usual locations. If you’re getting me via BlogLines… and there were a bunch of you on the other site… I’d suggest

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Eric Florack on November 26th, 2006

A few clips of Fran, yesterday, along with my comments;

Your Curmudgeon is an ardent hawk. He believes passionately that Islam must be whipped back into its Arabian kennel and quarantined there, no matter what that undertaking might do to

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Just yesterday, I commented on this brand new Israeli initiative for peace.

First of all this is a game we’ve played so many times, it’s taking on the status of Charlie Brown and the football. The game always ends

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davidl on November 26th, 2006

Lori Montgomery and Christopher Lee’s article the the Washington Post is illumunating.

One, it illlustrates how the MSM ignored largely successful republican programs in the run up the the election and let the democrats run on sound byte politics.

Two,

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WND- A Democrat community leader who would “offer a homily during worship services” and facilitated his congregation’s “opening our doors to all people regardless of sexual orientation” has been given a slap on the hand after pleading guilty to extensive

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2006

JERUSALEM Nov 25, 2006 (AP)— Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire Saturday to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state a major

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2006

Powerline, today:

Rumor has it that the Washington Post will name Susan Glasser, currently the head of the paper’s Outlook section, to be in charge of all news sections at the Post.

I’ve heard similar rumors.. from of all places,

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2006

I can’t say that I have been this pleased this quickly about how a site falls together as I have been with this project.  Those who have been readers for quite awhile will understand the depth of what I’m saying

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2006

So says Mindanao.com:

It happened today, the Philippine Armed Forces (AFP) got a huge catch in the War on Terror! Remember the group of hostages that was taken by the Abu Sayyaf in June of 2001? That’s the same group

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2006

LONDON —(Fox)- Scotland Yard detectives said Saturday that a London sushi restaurant frequented by a former Russian spy turned Kremlin critic who died with a rare radioactive substance in his system had to be decontaminated after polonium-210 was found.

Alexander

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2006

Michelle Malkin today

Blabbermouths at the New York Times, who have been accused by federal prosecutors of tipping off Islamic charities fronting for terror, want Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to protect them:

The New York Times asked

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davidl on November 25th, 2006

Tricia Bishop reports “Christmas is back” Kudos to Walmat.  It is always nice to see political correctness knocked back a bit.

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2006

I must say I”m a little disappointed that McQ hasn’t been running his excellent “Project Hero” bits for the last few weeks, over at Q&O. No shortage of this kind of news, though… For example, Chuck Simmins hasn’t stopped,

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