Eric Florack on November 24th, 2009

George Monbiot, who is likely the biggest global warming propagandist in the press today, looks at the Global Warming emails that have been the topic of so much discussion lately and admits:

It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major

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Eric Florack on November 23rd, 2009

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Eric Florack on November 23rd, 2009

James Joyner says:

Ed Driscoll, Jonathan Adler and Glenn Reynolds take the New York Times and other mainstream outlets to task for their decision to not republish the stolen emails from climate scientists on the grounds that they were

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Eric Florack on November 23rd, 2009

Says George Will –

For many years, most oil was used for lighting and lubrication, and the amounts extracted were modest. Then in 1901, a new well named for an East Texas hillock, Spindletop, began gushing more per day than

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2009

FromĀ  the NewsReal Blog:

Toymaker Mattel Inc. has given its best-selling Barbie doll a makeover in honor of her 50th anniversary.

Meet Burkha Barbie, garbed in traditional Islamic Dress. On sale now.

I have to say that it

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2009

Byron York raises an interesting point:

The extraordinary thing about the dramatic events surrounding the health care bill in the Senate is that there was any drama at all. Lawmakers were simply voting to begin debate on the Democratic version

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“The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Pope agreed to seek closer relations between Anglicans and Catholics at a meeting in Rome, the Vatican has said.  It follows tensions over the Vatican’s offer to welcome disenchanted Anglicans into the Catholic fold. 

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2009

The record of the Democrats since attaining office has not been good, at least from the perspective of the average American. Let’s look at their key agenda points:

  • Global Warming, as such has long been seen as a lie. That

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davidl on November 21st, 2009

Martin Luther King:

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Jesse

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As Eric rambled:

AL GORE… RED COURTESY PHONE PLEASE… I’ve mentioned a couple of times over the years that if we ever managed to get into some of the internal documents, and the real behind the scenes discussions of

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2009

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

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  • AL GORE… RED COURTESY PHONE PLEASE… I’ve mentioned a couple of times over the years that if we ever managed to get

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2009

Ben Smith says at Politico:

President Obama’s job approval numbers will dip below 50% for the first time today in Gallup’s daily tracking poll, according to a Gallup official.

“Gallup Daily tracking results just in. Obama will be below 50%

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2009

An outright brilliant column from Doctor Charles Krauthammer this morning:

For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2009

Guys… the mail server got moved this monring. As a result the distribution lists are gone and so are you old mailboxes as I warned would happen, so I’m sending this in the clear. Please drop a note to my

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2009

After the DNS servers figured out where we were after the change of sever, I started beating up on this new configuration. routersAs it turns out, the Apache hosted system we’re on now is about twice as fast as the

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