davidl on July 21st, 2008

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The belief that reporters are trying to help Barack Obama win the fall campaign has grown by five percentage points over the past month

Rasmussen Reports

No Amanda Sherlock!

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Eric Florack on July 21st, 2008

The Wall Street Journal is saying:

Now that Starbucks Corp. has disclosed the 600 locations it wants to shutter, a phenomenon is taking hold: the Save Our Starbucks campaign.

In towns as small as Bloomfield, N.M., and metropolises as large

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Eric Florack on July 21st, 2008

Oil futures went slightly above $130/BBL early today apparently on Iran fears, and on US weather concerns in the Gulf of Mexico. 

These, however, seem temporary concerns. and certainly not the kind of speculation driving spikes we’ve seen in recent

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davidl on July 20th, 2008

It was historlc, a first of its kind and to a young teenager and his brother, it was quite impresive.   It was Midtown Plaza and it was the first indoor mall in the nation.

Of course in 1963, Midtown was

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Eric Florack on July 20th, 2008

It’s immensely amusing;

The last several years we have had long lines of leftists denounce saying the Middle East politics of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. This argument, apparently, is supposed to suggest that our involvement in

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(CNN) A German magazine quoted Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as saying that he backed a proposal by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months.

“U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama

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davidl on July 20th, 2008

Does Barack “BO” Obama understand the nature of democracy? Not according to the angry letter he sent out to supporters of Mrs. Clinton, Greg Sargent, TPM Election Central:

I must confess a bit of fatigue and irritation with people

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davidl on July 19th, 2008

I paid $3.99 to gas up this morning, a bargain at recent prices, but still highway robbery.   However rather than woking to lessen the pain at the pump, democrats want to increase the pain.   Congressional democrates are propossing a whopping

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Eric Florack on July 19th, 2008

As I told you would happen, the WordPress folks released version 2.6.

This actually happened a few days ago.

I’ve got it up and running, and it looks fine so far.

I must say the guy  doing the ayuo-upgrade software

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Eric Florack on July 19th, 2008

Over at OTB, James notes a pattern I started taking note of last night:

The Outrage of the Day comes to us from Josh Marshall, a pretty even keeled fellow.   John McCain said this to reporters.

“I believe that

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  • CW holds that when the economy is down, movie houses don’t do well. So why’d we have the biggest weekend ever at the movies last weekend? Something isn’t quite up to what the Democrats and their MSM minions are advertising.

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Eric Florack on July 18th, 2008

Hume:

On his upcoming overseas trip, Barack Obama will be met along the way by the anchors of the three network evening newscasts. About 200 other journalists have also asked to join Obama during his trip.

But Howard Kurtz of

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davidl on July 18th, 2008

I have said it before and I say it again. Anthropogenic global warming is a hoax. The proof is that no person who seriously believed that the use of carbon based energy was causing catastrophic climate change would be a

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Eric Florack on July 18th, 2008

Interesting. When you’re a total failure as house speaker, what do you do? You call the President a total failure. CNN:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Bush “a total failure” on Thursday, among the California Democrat’s harshest assessments

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davidl on July 17th, 2008

BO complains to Glamour magazine about the media treatment of his missus:

SENATOR OBAMA: It’s infuriating, but it’s not surprising, because let’s face it: What happened was that the conservative press—Fox News and the National Review and columnists of every

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