davidl on April 8th, 2007

B.C.

B.C.’ cartoonist Johnny Hart dies at storyboard

ENDICOTT, N.Y. -(AP)- cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning “B.C.” comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died at his home on Saturday. He was 76.

“He had a stroke,”

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Eric Florack on April 8th, 2007

Witha hat tip to KJL, let’s check out a chart recently offered as ‘proof” of “global warming” by USA TODAY, otherwise known as “Useless Toady”.

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Now…  look at the way this is laid out, and you’ll notice that the appearances

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davidl on April 8th, 2007

Since when is “Let It Snow” an Easter song?

Don Surber.

Edit:  changed photo.

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Eric Florack on April 8th, 2007

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It’s an unlikely story, and it’s even unlikely are that the story would continue to be retold a little over 2000 years later.  But so it is retold, and continues to become stronger in the retelling.

There’s an awful lot

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Eric Florack on April 8th, 2007

Oil prices fell. The stock market rose. Video images of smiling British soldiers with Iranian President Ahmadinejad were everywhere. So were pictures of the 15 freed hostages embracing family members back home. The relief over the return of the Brits

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Eric Florack on April 8th, 2007

From this morning’s Telegraph:

Hardliners in the Iranian regime have warned that the seizure of British naval personnel demonstrates that they can make trouble for the West whenever they want to and do so with impunity.

The bullish reaction from

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davidl on April 8th, 2007

William Douglas, McClatchy Washinton Bureau, asks the really dumb question of the day:

WASHINGTON – It’s become President Bush’s mantra, his main explanation for why he won’t withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq anytime soon.

In speech after speech, in

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davidl on April 8th, 2007

From – the – Washington Post,  Karla Adam:

LONDON, April 7 — An Iranian official said Saturday that allegations of mistreatment from a British naval team seized last month in the Persian Gulf were unfounded and stage-managed.

“The mistreatment

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