Fox:

John McCain will suspend his presidential campaign Thursday and has asked to postpone his debate Friday with Barack Obama so the two senators can return to Washington to help negotiate a Wall Street bailout, an approach to the financial

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Amazing what you can do with a painting, isn’t it?
It’s time once again for the most densely packed, intense daily read in blogdom, The Nightly Ramble.

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Eric Florack on September 24th, 2008

Vote fraud to the side for a moment, you really have to wonder if there’s not at least a certain amount of fraud going on with the pollsters, as well.  Fellow Swamp Stomper, Sister Toldjah

This morning, I logged in

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Eric Florack on September 24th, 2008

Jammie Wearing Fool:

‘Well, I Tell You What, It Helps in Ohio That We’ve Got Democrats in Charge of the Machines’

Thus spake The Messiah September 3 in Ohio. Ah, yes, it sure does help having partisan hacks at the

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2008

Those of you who blog with WordPress will understand this. The rest of you will not understand this. Just go on with your lives, citizens.

I installed two plugins last night, that apparently don’t get along.

1: Title Capitalization

2:

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2008

I note with some interest John Hawkins of Right Wing News has an interview with John Fund up,

A little snip of that interview:

John Fund: There are two civil rights here and that’s what I would conclude with. We

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2008

Jen Ruben at Commentary in an excellent article today:

Barack Obama would have us believe that lax regulation and deregulation in the form of the Glass-Steagall Act are at the root of the problem. He’s wrong on both counts.

The

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Welcome, dear reader to the most intense nightly read anywhere in the ‘sphere, Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

  • Charlie Rangel’s scandals just keep going on.  It strikes me that were the press to have actually been doing it’s job, they’d be

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2008

Ben Smith:

Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.

He was speaking about the role of the White House in a

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2008

Bruce McQuain, this morning:

To the blockheads who run Congress:

Dean Baker, a liberal economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said he has told congressional Democrats that Bush is the one who is in the

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Eric Florack on September 22nd, 2008

Now to the snarkiest, most densely packed read available anywhere in the blogoshphere, BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble:

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Eric Florack on September 22nd, 2008

An elementary school class started a class project to make planters to take home to their parents.

They wanted to have a plant in it that was easy to take care of, so they decided to use cactus plants.

The

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Eric Florack on September 22nd, 2008

The LA Times:

Exactly 44 years after Lyndon B. Johnson became the last Democrat to capture the state of North Dakota in a presidential election, it looks like Barack Obama won’t be the next.

The Associated Press reported this

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Eric Florack on September 22nd, 2008

Rusty Shakleford over at the Jawa Report has a grea t read up this morning:

Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated “Grassroots” Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them

In Rusty’s words;

Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report

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Eric Florack on September 21st, 2008

It was just a short while ago… 2007, in fact… that our government set us on a path which they told us would be leading us toward energy independence.  It was called the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of

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