Eric Florack on June 25th, 2008

Hume last night:

Barack Obama’s first general election ad says about 46 seconds in that the Illinois senator passed laws that “extended health care for wounded troops who’d been neglected.”

The ad “Country I Love”, which was released Friday, provides

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  • I see Don Imus is in trouble again. Gee, what a shock, huh? Look, let’s be honest here; PacMan Jones is about as worthless a human being as one might ever be able to contrive.  As Imus points out,

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Eric Florack on June 24th, 2008

I’ve beend saying for some time now that even Obama doesn’t believe half of what he spews. I’ve also been saying that his pandering would catch up to him eventually. And, here we are, in the New York Times,

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Saturday, I blogged about BO’s faux presidential seal, and as did Bit earlier today.   Now Ken Wheaton, Advertising Age, reports:  “Obama Campaign Drops Faux Presidential Seal:”

Last week, Barack Obama unveiled a new campaign seal — and not

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Eric Florack on June 23rd, 2008

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From the paper that still can’t get over the idea that Hillary Clinton won’t be the next President, the NY Times:

When VeraSun Energy inaugurated a new ethanol processing plant last summer in Charles City, Iowa, some of that industry’s

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davidl on June 23rd, 2008

Good news, the East Ponders, the British, are not buying into Al Gore’s crock of anthropogenic global warming, Juliette Jowit, Observer (UK):

The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans –

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Eric Florack on June 23rd, 2008

June 22, 2008 -NY Post- Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are heading for a meeting of the money.

As the ex-foes are scheduled to sit down face to face this week and talk fund-raising, each needs to leave the

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Eric Florack on June 23rd, 2008

(RTTNews) – Oil production in Saudi Arabia will be raised, although officials in the oil-rich nation are expressing doubts as to its affects on the rising price of crude in the global market.

After an oil “summit” Sunday in Jeddah,

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Eric Florack on June 23rd, 2008

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs, dirty words and the demise of humanity, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday. He was 71.
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davidl on June 22nd, 2008

There are several ways to react to the  Gloucester High School baby boom.   About all the GHS officials did not do was award the girls on the knock-up team a varsity letter,  Fox News:

A Massachusetts high school is

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You know, it would be laughable if it were not so tragic.

Mike Allen at Politico:

With the cost of gas a top issue in the presidential campaign, Barack Obama on Sunday will announce a plan to crack down on

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Eric Florack on June 22nd, 2008

James Joyner at OTB mentions the current reading at Electoral-vote.com and says:

If the election were held today, Barack Obama would cruise to victory with 317 Electoral Votes to John McCain’s 194, according to projections tabulated by Electoral-Vote.com. Florida,

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davidl on June 22nd, 2008

A cow is a cow, without regard to color.  Mary C. Curtis, Washington Post, moos about the “Silence Of Feminists:”

Michelle Obama has become an issue in the presidential campaign even though she isn’t running for anything.

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Eric Florack on June 21st, 2008

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him.

Republicans? Seems to me the only

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