davidl on May 15th, 2008

Barack As attributed to the BO campaign by the New York Times:

It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack. It is

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Eric Florack on May 15th, 2008

The experiment with those added functions from last weekend has changed.
Link Summary, BitsBlog Tags, and Related posts will still be shown on individual postings, but not on the index page. This will save us some bandwidth, and help with

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davidl on May 15th, 2008

The debut column of the newest Townhall columist:

Fred Thompson from TownhallSecond, change – whether it “real change,” “bold change” or the “change we can believe in” variety others are selling – isn’t itself an innovative policy or a particularly strong leadership stance.

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Eric Florack on May 15th, 2008

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” Bush said at Israel’s 60th anniversary celebration in Jerusalem.

“We have heard this foolish delusion

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Eric Florack on May 15th, 2008

By way of Henke, I note:

…it’s Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar who says speculation is behind high oil prices, and actually introduces legislation to “curb” speculation.

Our next step should be to stop the speculation that is driving up

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Eric Florack on May 15th, 2008

The misery index is now at 8.

Democrats want to portray this as the worst economy since Herbert Hoover was president.

Unfortunately, the economy is not cooperating.

Unemployment dropped to 5.0% last month.

And inflation is at 3%.

Under the

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Eric Florack on May 15th, 2008

It’s a big building with patients.

But what’s Glenn Reynolds doing there?

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Eric Florack on May 15th, 2008

Me at Outside the Beltway, yesterday:

For most of my adult life, I’ve worked in the Downtown area of Rochester, at one job or another. For the first year or so, and on and off after that, I tried

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Eric Florack on May 14th, 2008

Derb has decided to side with John Ratzenberger, who is on a kick to keep tinkering alive.

I think they’re both right. Understand; I wrote most of this without bothering to actually read Derb’s article. The first couple paras of

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Eric Florack on May 14th, 2008

No question that on the political front, todayw as a slow news day. The big story on the 6pm (Eastern) newscasts would have been Hillary Clinton’s drubbing of Brrack Obama in West Virginia, last night.  What to do to take

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davidl on May 14th, 2008

Well at least this black reverend manages to keep his allegations pausible, video:

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It would explain why Andrew Sullivan is so avid about BO.

Hat tip:  Ace

 

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Eric Florack on May 14th, 2008
  • You’re quite right, Billy, McCain may end up actually winning this thing, but at what cost to the Republicans, in terms of having to make them more like socialist Democrats? And by that same token, what is the level

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Eric Florack on May 14th, 2008

Honk if you’ve never seen an Uzi fired from a car window

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Eric Florack on May 14th, 2008

Dana Milbank once again shows why nobody… even Democrats… should take the guy seriously;

Dana Milbank showing hos ability with the cheap shot

2:57 p.m., Yeager Airport, Charleston, W.Va.: A steep descent brings Clinton’s plane to Charleston’s hilltop airport. After an appropriate wait, she steps from the plane and

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