Eric Florack on January 30th, 2008

James Joyner:

Ben Smith and David Paul Kuhn argue that poor showing in this campaign “seems also to mark the beginning of the end of a period in Republican politics that began on Sept. 11, 2001.”

“There’s a paradox for

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davidl on January 30th, 2008

There was a time not so long ago,when everybody in the Rochester area know when the Kodak bonuses came out.   The merchants heavily advertised the event.  In other words, you could not help but notice.    Now the  Kodak bonus on

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  • McQ puts up a few telling comments about Identity politics, in the context of the ever increasingly irrelevant “National Origination for (Leftist) Women. Not much of a shock that we both draw the same conclusion about NOW in particular… but

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davidl on January 30th, 2008

Hugh Hewitt says it not over and will not be over even after Super Tuesday.   Now it is clear that Mike Huckabee is running to spoil Mitt Romney’s chances and to garner a shot at Veep.  While the Huckster is

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Eric Florack on January 30th, 2008

Five minutes after my last post, we lost power. Just now came back. A weird day. Snowing sideways, at the moment. I noted footage of the snow and blow act out in Des Moines yesterday. It’s here, today. Re-starting my

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davidl on January 30th, 2008

Wizard of Oz - twister

So uttered to me this morning.   The good news, is  that we don’t have Dorothy’s twister.   The bad news, it is far colder than a summer day in Kansas.   The morning fish wrapper said the peak wind speed should be

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Eric Florack on January 30th, 2008

And no, I’m not talking about Monica Lewinski, though I may get to that today.

No, I’m talking about the high wind conditions we were supposed to get yesterday… they didn’t develop until this morning, and when they did they

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davidl on January 30th, 2008

Mrs. William ClintonAs a candidate Mrs. Clinton has made a lot of promises   Can she be expected to keep any of them?   Remember that B.J. Clinton campaigned on the promise of a middle class tax cut but instead delivered a retroactive tax

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