Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

“Every so often I just wish that it were a little more of an even playing field,”

So complains Hillary Clinton.

Only problem of course is that everything being equal as she claims to prefer, would create a situation where

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davidl on February 29th, 2008

Words, mere words, Barack Obama’s stock in trade.   Obama has been campaigning in Ohio trashing NAFTA, whiile his campaign tells the Canadian government to ignore Obama’s words, CTV News(CA):

Allegations of double talk on NAFTA from the Obama and

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

Well, we’re not sure, but Pakistan is saying Adam Gadahn is Tango Uniform, and Rusty Shakleford has the details.

I figure we’ve done him a favor… he’s meeting with Allah, now. It’s our duty to see as many as want

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

The more the US wins in IRaq, the less the news covers it. That’s long been the supposition, and now Rich Noyes at NewsBusters confirms it, saying in part…

…the President’s surge strategy is well on its way to succeeding.

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

Little Green Footballs passes along an Investor’s Business Daily comment about investing in “Muslim Friendly Funds”:

 Shariah-compliant finance involves investments and other transactions that have been structured to conform with the orthodox teachings of Islamic law.

That means they can’t

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

It’s interesting; Day before yesterday, I complained that one thing that had always turned me off about Buckley is he treated flatly disrespectable people with respect anyway,  to the detriment of the truth. I said the same at Q&O,

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davidl on February 28th, 2008

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“60 Minutes” disdain for the Republican Party brought you embarrassment when you ran a bogus and fraudulent story in the fall of 2004 about President Bush and his National Guard record, and your organization ultimately admitted to not having followed

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Eric Florack on February 28th, 2008

Why do I get the feeling that there’s desperation where McCain is concerned? The New York Times, this monring:

WASHINGTON – The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare

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Eric Florack on February 28th, 2008

Barack Obama has ratcheted up his attacks on NAFTA, but a senior member of his campaign team told a Canadian official not to take his criticisms seriously, CTV News has learned.

So says CTV this morning. 

Yeah, well, no shock

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Eric Florack on February 28th, 2008

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davidl on February 28th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleMaybe it was the fault of the building?

(CNN) — The building where a gunman killed five people at Northern Illinois University two weeks ago will be demolished, state officials said Wednesday

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s office confirmed

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Eric Florack on February 27th, 2008

Gaius has word of a real toilet exploding scenario.

How’d you like to be the butt of this joke?

Boy, the chili they serve at these nursing homes…

Oh, never mind. Just go see.

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Eric Florack on February 27th, 2008

Jonah Goldberg, whose book I have really got to sit down and read, remarks yesterday:

‘Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.”

This excerpt from William Ayers’ memoir appeared in the New York Times on

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davidl on February 27th, 2008

Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review:

I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died overnight in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.

After year of illness, he died while at work; if

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