davidl on July 9th, 2008

FISA passes the Senate.  Michelle has the story.   I wonder if BO’s website will cover his reaction to the taste of crow?    Expect much unpleasant reaction of the lefttards.

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  • Boortz, today, says:

    Thomas Sowell has a great article on Barack Obama: “Many are for him for no more serious reasons than his mouth and his complexion.” That’s true, Mr. Sowell … but are you a racist for saying so?

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Eric Florack on July 9th, 2008

Yesterday, David and I both blogged regarding Nancy Pelosi’s stonewalling on energy management.  The saga continues today. I’d like you to see something. Here’s a letter ostensibly written by Pelosi, to President Bush:(with my commentary interjected.)

July 8, 2008

The

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Eric Florack on July 9th, 2008

A while ago, I asked how the Democrats planned to deal with all the whack jobs showing up to the convention in Denver, saying at least some of that was bound to be broadcast and therefore be a topic of

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Eric Florack on July 9th, 2008

Oil is now off for the third straight day, dropping a little over $5 yesterday.

Again, remember I said midsummer would be when the bubble breaks.

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davidl on July 8th, 2008

Mrs. PelosiAmericans are feed-up with paying over four dollars a gallon for gasoline.   Most members of Congress, republicans and a lot of democrats, agree and want to open-up domestic oil production.  Mrs. Pelosi does not.   Mrs. Pelosi would like to take

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  • So, Ezra Klien is miffed that the New York Times didn’t write a hit peice on Limbaugh?  Ask me again why I’m ever more unimpressed by Klien.
  • At some point, someone’s going to make mention of the idea that both

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davidl on July 8th, 2008

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Rush is more engaging than Sean Hannity, more comfortable than Michael Savage, funnier than Gordon Liddy, and less preachy than Laura Schlessinger.

His act wears thin if you’re an intellectual. But he can afford to lose a few hundred people.

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2008

From the North Jersey Record:

Congress must not allow drilling for oil and gas off the New Jersey coast, Governor Corzine and federal legislators said today in Belmar.

 “Our world-renowned coastline is the lifeblood of our economy and a fragile

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2008

Hume, last night:

Such has been the progress in Iraq that even Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania is not only not denying it but now admits it has worked.

Murtha, a longtime critic of the war, said last

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Eric Florack on July 7th, 2008

I commented earlier tonight on Billy’s comments on voting. We pick up the conversation…. Me at Samzidata just now:

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We’re both 50, you and I. Whatever happens, in terms of future direction for this country, and by extension, western

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  • It amazes me, the amount of grave dancing going on with Jesse Helms. I won’t even bother linking it, but I note LGF already has. You’d think the left would recall that the Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter are waiting

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davidl on July 7th, 2008

Lynn Sweet, Sun-Times (Chicago) reports the BO campaign is  trying some imaginative rebranding and is attempt to foist BO off as a reincaranted version of both John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan:

WASHINGTON–A German friend passed along the news Saturday

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Eric Florack on July 7th, 2008

From the Detroit News, we see:

DETROIT — Federal investigators have electronic surveillance evidence that allegedly links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers with receiving a payment or payments in connection with a city-approved sludge contract,

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Eric Florack on July 7th, 2008

A few years ago, the Canadian recording group “the Poppy Family”  came up with a hit in “Which Way you going, Billy?” Written by Terry Jacks, (He of “Seasons in the Sun” fame, the top40 cover of Rod McKuen’s poetry)

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