Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

From the quips list:

I would put Glenn Greenwald calling anyone’s masculinity into question, on par with Greenwald’s Hero, Harry Reid, calling anyone “incompetent”, and for the same reason.

I should have put something in there about Dennis Kucinich, I

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

McQ at Q&O:

Seems the only real case of voter disenfranchisement in ’04 may have been perpetrated by the Democrats:

Consumer advocate and 2004 independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader sued the Democratic Party on Tuesday, contending officials conspired to keep

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

Look, let’s call this what it is:

Saying that Glen Greenwald is a drooling, lying, sock puppeting idiot, is not a political statement.  Provacative, perhaps, and arguably correct, but it’s not political.
And that goes for Greg

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

You know,  there are a lot of pathetic sights in this world… and we’ve pointed a number of them out here. But I have to say that this one knows few equals. Even as a Bills fan, I can sympathize…

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

We recently posted about how the Democrats… particularly those in his home state of Pennsylvania should have had enough long ago, and should start moving to remove him from office. 

Interestingly, there’s a number of Democrats looking to do exactly

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

Ya know, there is a certain point at which BDS leaves the world of the slightly mad, and moves into the world of the utterly insane. The KOSacks are pole vaulting over that line, today:

 I wrote a diary

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

Mike Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard:

The Wall Street Journal reports on the stunning success of Representative John Murtha in channeling taxpayer dollars to pork-barrel projects in his district, including awards for companies under FBI investigation and others which show

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Fersboo on October 30th, 2007

I’ll expect the same outrage for Pelosi’s actions, if not more, that FEMA generated by staging a press conference.

The Hill is reporting that Speaker of the House Pelosi (D) is concerned that Republicans will use the Rangel’s “controversial new

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

Doctor Thomas Sowell points up something I’ve discussed here previously:

It is remarkable how many political “solutions” today are dealing with problems created by previous political “solutions.” Three examples that come to mind immediately are the housing -market crisis,

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davidl on October 30th, 2007

Eliot SpitzerNew York State Governor Eliot Spitzer is an ambitious man.    He used this tenure as New York State Attorney General create a wave popular support which propelled his to state governor.

Surely Spitzer would like to use the state governorship

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 —NY TIMES- State Department investigators offered Blackwater USA security guards immunity during an inquiry into last month’s deadly shooting of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad — a potentially serious investigative misstep that could complicate efforts to prosecute the

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

Oooh… interesting.

At least to a radio person.

I see Boortz is now on 1260/KGIL.

I wasn’t aware they’d gone News/Talk. Last I was out there, (early 97) they were running an all- Beatles format. No, I’m not kidding.  Hell,

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

Tony Snow has a firm grip on reality:

 On the newspaper business: “The newspapers have to realize that they are a niche market and the one thing they can do better than anyone else is analysis. As a guy who

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

JOINT STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR RYAN C. CROCKER AND GENERAL DAVID H. PETRAEUS ON THE TRANSFER OF SECURITY RESPONSIBILITY FOR KARBALA PROVINCE

Posted: 29 Oct 2007 06:52 AM CDT

JOINT STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR RYAN C. CROCKER AND GENERAL DAVID H. PETRAEUS

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