Eric Florack on February 28th, 2007

Tonight’s Ramble is going to be short and sweet.

Well, short.

The reason is fairly simple; yesterday afternoon, I ended up making a hurry up trip to the hospital. My younger boy , Alex, was being transported there.  He was

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Eric Florack on February 28th, 2007

So Sharpton, civil rights activist, is descended from a slave owned by relatives of segregationist senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Big deal. How about whether Sharpton is descended from Mandinka royalty in Mali or sheep herders in Gambia? Better

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davidl on February 28th, 2007

Mrs. ClintonIs Mrs. Clinton’s campaign issuing rubber checks?

“An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.” 

Simon Cameron

All those many endorsement checks and to what end.  Mrs Clinton’s problem is that her supporters will not

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davidl on February 28th, 2007

John McCain

The Morrises, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, attempt to explain John McCain’s campaign collapse.   The Morrrises attrit over seventeen hundred words in the process, and fail.  Don Surber does the job in but two words  — McCain-Feingold:

Americans do

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davidl on February 28th, 2007

snark2.jpgWhile the Libby jury deliberates, Clarice Feldman takes a break from the trial to take a shot at the liimosine class of watermelons

I’m trying to figure out why Norman Lear with a 26 car garage insists we cut

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