Eric Florack on December 22nd, 2006

From The Detroit News today, we get a rough idea of how left wing ideologues operate;

DETROIT — The state’s largest city has no immediate plans to stop giving favor to businesses owned by minorities and women, despite the state

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davidl on December 22nd, 2006

The problem with this article is that it is news, and in a better world it would not be.    In Wisconsin, a federal court actually upheld the First Amendment, kind of, sort of.  

Matt Apuzzo reports that a federal court

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Eric Florack on December 21st, 2006

Well, my Christmas shopping is complete.  It would appear that I have a little less to worry about in terms of having to run up to the store and fight the crowds.  Having completed all of that, however, I am

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davidl on December 21st, 2006

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Mrs. Clinton thinks it take a villages to raise a chld.   Pamela Geller Oshry, a.k.a. Atlas, says:

It takes a village, my ass. I’ve got four kids, I do it all. If I left it to the village, they’d be

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Eric Florack on December 21st, 2006

My message on tolerance and intolerance is a simple one, straightforward , and can be expressed very quickly:

Those who tolerate everything, stand for nothing.

What do you stand for?

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Eric Florack on December 21st, 2006

Check out this little snip from Memeorandum, this morning:

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 Agence France Presse:
Congressman says Muslim lawmaker’s election threatens US values

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Discussion: cair.com and Think Progress

There seems something of a pattern developing, here.

Let’s see… We

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davidl on December 21st, 2006

Allahpundit sums it up well,

“There’s no rooting interest here. It’s the equivalent of a Saudi-Iranian standoff: all you’re hoping for is heavy casualties.”   

It is the Mouth, Rosie O’Donnell versus the Ego, Donald Trump.   If you have the stomach

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Eric Florack on December 20th, 2006

Almost done with shopping, but not quite.

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In an indication of just how nutty Winamp can get when given permission to mix at will, my system just cross-mixed Mannheim Steamroller, Alan Sherman with the Boston pops, and Ozzy’s ”

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davidl on December 20th, 2006

pelosi23.jpg Tom DeLay, yes the Tom Delay, at Tomdelay.com, detals Mrs Pelosi’s woes, “Nancy Pelosi has clearly stumbled out of the gate:”

In politics, I believe it is never a wise idea to underestimate one’s adversaries. Rather, we conservatives

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Eric Florack on December 20th, 2006

The way we write affects both style and substance. The loquacious formulations of late Henry James, for instance, owe in part to his arthritis, which made longhand impossible, and instead he dictated his writing to a secretary. In this aspect,

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Eric Florack on December 20th, 2006

But things change.

They sure do, Baldilocks. However…there’s an important point you’re missing.

The difference between you that you don’t mention, is that while you’ve proved that change and have a rather public track record on the matter, as well

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davidl on December 20th, 2006

 

Egads it took long enough, but finallly the steel is going up for the World Trade Center.  No credit to the reprobate George Pataki and the New York politician that took so disgracefully long.

Stepanie Gaskell, New York Post

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Eric Florack on December 19th, 2006

Yes, I know, I didn’t do a nightly ramble, last night.  Actually that little respite was provided by my ISP.  Turns out, the whole neighborhood was without connectivity.  I know; I tried looking around on some of the neighbors unprotected

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davidl on December 19th, 2006

pelosi23.jpgMrs. Pelosi pledged to drain the Republican swamp and serve the People’s interest and not special interests   Well that is what she said.

Well instead draining the swamp, Mrs. Pelosi is merely replacing the Republican alligators with Democrat ones, like

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Eric Florack on December 19th, 2006

ABC News’ David Chalian Reports: As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to assess a possible presidential candidacy and the contours of a Democratic nomination fight, she has taken another step away from her 2002 vote authorizing President Bush to attack

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