Eric Florack on September 12th, 2008

Sister Toldjah:

In a page 1 story on Gov. Palin, the WaPo headline reads: “Palin Links Iraq to 9/11, A View Discarded by Bush.”

Unfortuntely for them, they got it wrong – again – as Bill Kristol points out

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So, Obama has been losing ground as he gets more shrill. What’s his solution to the problem? Get even more shrill.

Senator Barack Obama will intensify his assault against Senator John McCain, with new television advertisements and more forceful attacks

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2008

  • Looks like we’re going to get the camper out this weekend. The weather models are saying a 30% chance of showers Saturday and Sunday, so we’re going to take off early on Friday night and run to Golden Hill State

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2008

08:37am— 

I’d come into work just like any other morning.

Where I was working at the time is closed, now, and so is the department that I was working for. But I can see he layout of the place in

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2008

I awoke this morning to a disturbing note passed along by a reader, pointing me to this from Rasmussen:

Thirty-two percent (32%) of likely voters say the Supreme Court is doing a good or excellent job. The latest Rasmussen Reports

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2008

Reposted from 9/13/01

It is recorded in our history books that when he looked down at the ship full of smiling, victorious faces… faces of his flyers, just having returned from Pearl Harbor, Japanese fleet Admiral Yamamoto was quiet, pensive,

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Eric Florack on September 10th, 2008

  • Does anyone on the planet doubt that Obama book was written to advance the cause of his presidential candidacy? Why, then, is it so hard to understand that Oprah Winfrey having him on to promote that book, is a direct

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Eric Florack on September 10th, 2008

So, when I saw Pete Abel’s tirade against Sarah Palin, I took it in stride. After all, The Moderate Voice isn’t, I reasoned. I’ve pointed out the serious lack of moderation there (To say nothing of the rolling waves of

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Eric Florack on September 10th, 2008

In an election for President of the United States in North Carolina Tuesday, Republican John McCain suddenly and breathtakingly surges to a 20-point win over Democrat Barack Obama, 58% to 38%, according to this latest exclusive SurveyUSA

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Eric Florack on September 10th, 2008

Well, look, we have one of two choices with this story.

  1. No. Obama didn’t mean to connect the dots, and simply fell into using a phrase. If this is the case,  his extreme insensitivity disqualifies him from any presidential duties,

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I pointed out that the guy driving the so-called ‘Troopergate” thing forward in Alaska was more than a little dirty;

I questioned the timing of the way things ramped up on the Palin thing in Alaska, a couple days

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Eric Florack on September 9th, 2008

An outright suburb article in the Asia Times last week… Apparently Limbaugh read it on his show yesterday… and a reader sent it along to me here.

Just a taste:

Obama will spend the rest of his life wondering why

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  • Martin makes the point I’ve been making about Fannie and Freddie… that this does not constitute a government takeover or government growth at all, for that matter, since they were governmental creations in the first place.  And Billy responds

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Eric Florack on September 9th, 2008

By way of The Conservative Grapevine comes an article in the Examiner, wherein we find:

 University of Minnesota staff were key coordinators of the recent violent protests at the Republican National Convention (RNC). The university employees are also

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Eric Florack on September 9th, 2008

Warren Meyer points out that the website of the proposed California high-speed rail bond says that the thing will generate 450,000 permanent jobs, which is an amazing thing when you consider that all of U.S. rail employs about half that

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