davidl on June 2nd, 2008

I have not commented on Todd Purnam’s, Vanity Fair, piece on B.J. Clinton because in part I can’t bring myself to read such a long article.   However one of  Purnam’s points was that B.J. lacks self-displine.   Puffington Post  writer

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2008
  • You really have to wonder what motivates people sometimes, when you see stories like this one.
  • But… Obama could no more disown his church, than he could disown his…. Oh.. Wait. Never mind.
  • Of Hamburgers, food police, and such.
  • I

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2008

Story just moved on the AP wire, reporting that Bo Diddley has died.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – A spokeswoman says rock pioneer Bo Diddley has died. He was 79.

The spokeswoman says Diddley died of heart failure Monday. He had

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2008

PARIS -AP- Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, who reworked the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed, died Sunday evening, a longtime friend and associate said. He was 71

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2008

James Joyner points up that there’s no tape from Larry Johnson, yet. OTOH, he also points out that Larry’s servers are smoking hulks from the traffic this thing’s been getting. Aside from possibly explaining why no post from Johnson yet,

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Something from Political Punch catches my eye this morning:

In another excerpt from Rev. Michael Pfleger’s sermon last Sunday, May 25, from the pulpit of Sen. Barack Obama’s now former church, Trinity United Church of Christ on the South side

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2008

I’ve been telling you that this oil bubble was about to break and we’d see some movement by midsummer. Well, guess what?

The Times Herald is repoting:

Last week, the price of crude oil futures actually went down, and there

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2008

The Telepgraph is reporting:

A police community support officer ordered two Christian preachers to stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham.

The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a “hate crime” and

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