davidl on June 4th, 2012

From a suppose institution of higher education,   City University of New York, via Susan Edelman New York Post:

A steering committee led by Joyce Moy, director of CUNY’s Asian Research Institute, ran faculty focus groups based on “identity.” The groups

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Eric Florack on June 4th, 2012

Here’s another of my all-time favorite tracks: Koinonia – Countin’ The Cost, from the Celebration LP. This thing has a groove that is infectious.  It’s just the audio from the LP.

If you prefer, here’s a vid of the same

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Patterico, whos day job is assistant district attorney, demonstrates his professional skills by giving the Speedway Bomber, b/k/a Brett Kimberlin an on-line anal examination.   Patterico  makes his case in detail.   From Patterico examination of Kimberlin, I draw two easy conclusions:

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Eric Florack on June 4th, 2012

ABC News is among those discussing this:

ABC News’ Ben Forer and Olivia Katrandjian report:

The soft drink industry is fighting back against New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on large sugary drinks, by running an eye-catching, full-page

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California is paying the price for recycling a failed governor, Governor Moonbeam, a/k/a Jerry Brown.   Can Governor Moonbeam read the writing on the wall and pull the plug on pipe dream of bullet train.   I kind of doubt it, from 

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davidl on June 3rd, 2012

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Evidently the democrats in Wisconsin are in full panic mode.    There June surprise fell apart in an hour, from Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:

Pathetic. Wisconsin Democrats dropped a Scott Walker love child story today – two days out from the

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Eric Florack on June 3rd, 2012

I note with some sadness, the passing last night of Richard Dawson, of Family Feud and of Hogan’s Heroes, and a number of other projects. He was 79. Here he is talking about the British accent he took on in

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The Obama administration is confused. It wants to pretend illegal combatants have the same rights as citizens, but Obama desperateness wants to look like a commander-in-chief. So what do you do when your reprobate of an attorney general, Eric Holder

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Eric Florack on June 1st, 2012

This is one of my all-time favorite tracks… George Howard’s Dancing in the Sun… the title track from the LP. It’s a tune I played a lot of when I was doing Jazz radio years ago. Recorded in 1986, we

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