Eric Florack on April 14th, 2008

Seen this morning on the back of a pickup truck, that had been set up to haul a 5th wheel camper:

If you can read this, I’ve lost the trailer!!!!

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Eric Florack on April 14th, 2008

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania (CNN) – After a weekend spent making direct appeals to gun owners and church goers, Hillary Clinton said Sunday a query about the last time she fired a gun or attended church services “is not a relevant question

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Eric Florack on April 14th, 2008

Dan Drezner grew a bit, apparently, over the weekend. He’s still got a long way to go, in this, but the progress is notable.

Remember when I said earlier this week that, “Glenn Greenwald might be a good blogger/collumnist, but

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Eric Florack on April 14th, 2008

John Hawkins has put together a great list of quotes that to my mind personifies conservatism. A couple examples:

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the

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Eric Florack on April 14th, 2008

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources close to the matter said on Monday.

 

Carter angered the

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Eric Florack on April 14th, 2008

Yeah, maybe.

I think I’ve found a theme that I like the look of, and at first blush doesn’t look like it’ll take forever to write our stuff to. The look is a little cleaner, though it’ll take some work

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Eric Florack on April 13th, 2008

Been working on cleaning up a lot of loose ends in the background, today.
One thing that I’ve been meaning to fix is the problems with mobile phones, Palm pilots and whatnot, not being able to get a good view

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Eric Florack on April 13th, 2008

I’ve added another feed today, and it’s a biggie; It’s the news feed from Google, and from the news services it in turn subscribes to… all updated in real time. Strictly headlines at the moment, that you can click through

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Greg Sargent at TPM, yesterday:

Hillary chief strategist Geoffrey Garin dramatically raised the stakes in the battle over Barack Obama’s comments about small-town America, saying in an interview that they would be “damaging” to him in a general election, could

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Eric Florack on April 13th, 2008

Austin Bay, who I quote far too little:

Realclearpolitics.com featured last week’s Creators Syndicate newspaper column and the gents at Powerline commented. As the column attests, I saw the Basra and east Baghdad counter-militia operations very differently from the

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Eric Florack on April 12th, 2008

The Navy Medal of Honor Today, Bruce McQuain continues his honoring of heros by turning his attention to Michael Mansoor, a Navy Seal. Go and read, and learn once again, what Heroism means.

Project Hero, is a worthy attempt on McQ’s part to remind

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Was Pelosi committing Treason?There’s a lot to this story, that I’m not quite sure how to tap into. But let me attempt to lay this out properly, by first reminding you of our post earlier this week, as regards Jimmy Carter, and his

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  • That’s OK, Jon. Tell ya what; Greenwald can claim I’m pro-torture, if he likes… because under some conditions I am. .. and for all the moralizing that’s been thrown at the issue, nobody’s ever come up with an even

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Eric Florack on April 11th, 2008

The much talked about “oil for food’ program had it’s share of problems. Corruption, mostly. Not to be wondered at, give we’re dealing with the UN there. But apparently, trying to exchange food for oil isn’t much better, as James

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Eric Florack on April 11th, 2008

NBC tried serving up Keith Olbermann in prime time. The attempt failed… Miserably.
Newsbusters:

On Sunday, NewsBusters asked readers, “Will NBC Succeed in Making Olbermann Mainstream?”

70 percent of respondents said, “No, he’s too crazy.”

Well, Nielsen ratings of

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