Eric Florack on July 9th, 2008

Oil is now off for the third straight day, dropping a little over $5 yesterday.

Again, remember I said midsummer would be when the bubble breaks.

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  • So, Ezra Klien is miffed that the New York Times didn’t write a hit peice on Limbaugh?  Ask me again why I’m ever more unimpressed by Klien.
  • At some point, someone’s going to make mention of the idea that both

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2008

From the North Jersey Record:

Congress must not allow drilling for oil and gas off the New Jersey coast, Governor Corzine and federal legislators said today in Belmar.

 “Our world-renowned coastline is the lifeblood of our economy and a fragile

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2008

Hume, last night:

Such has been the progress in Iraq that even Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania is not only not denying it but now admits it has worked.

Murtha, a longtime critic of the war, said last

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Eric Florack on July 7th, 2008

I commented earlier tonight on Billy’s comments on voting. We pick up the conversation…. Me at Samzidata just now:

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We’re both 50, you and I. Whatever happens, in terms of future direction for this country, and by extension, western

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  • It amazes me, the amount of grave dancing going on with Jesse Helms. I won’t even bother linking it, but I note LGF already has. You’d think the left would recall that the Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter are waiting

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Eric Florack on July 7th, 2008

From the Detroit News, we see:

DETROIT — Federal investigators have electronic surveillance evidence that allegedly links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers with receiving a payment or payments in connection with a city-approved sludge contract,

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Eric Florack on July 7th, 2008

A few years ago, the Canadian recording group “the Poppy Family”  came up with a hit in “Which Way you going, Billy?” Written by Terry Jacks, (He of “Seasons in the Sun” fame, the top40 cover of Rod McKuen’s poetry)

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Eric Florack on July 6th, 2008

Marie Colvin at The London Times, reports on troop movements and successes in Iraq. Of course nobody in the domestic press has bothered to notice, since apparently success isn’t the picture the domestic mainstream media has decided it wants

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Eric Florack on July 6th, 2008

I’ve been watching the deterioration of Matt Yglesias for several months now. What is bols down to is the level of excuses Yglesias, or any liberal, for that matter, is willing to make to keep himself blissfully ignorant of the

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Eric Florack on July 5th, 2008

Decided to upload the fireworks from last night.  These are taken from Henrietta NY, from about a half a mile away.

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Eric Florack on July 5th, 2008

I note this morning Megan McArdle:

Now the gun controllers pour out of the woodwork to claim that you’re more likely to kill yourself or a family member with a gun than a criminal.

Some of the people deploying

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Eric Florack on July 4th, 2008

The Guardian has a story up saying:

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% – far more than previously estimated – according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.

The damning unpublished assessment is based

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Eric Florack on July 4th, 2008

From Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr. (Father of notable EIB radio host, Rush.)
“…our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor…”
It was a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the wind was from the southeast. Up especially early, a tall,

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Eric Florack on July 3rd, 2008

On our recent trip to Western Ohio, we noted something on the NY-PA border that doesn’t put NY in the best of light. Consider, here.

Travel I-90 westbound. into PA, and you get hit with a freshly redone highway, and

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