Eric Florack on March 11th, 2008

There’s a number of people in the sphere saying if the sex is the extent of the crime, that Spitzer shouldn’t resign. However that may be, it’s not just the sex. Apparently the feds were looking at many, many investments

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Eric Florack on March 11th, 2008

Bluto asks:

I wonder if Time magazine now regrets slobbering all over Spitzer to help him get elected?

Ya know, Bluto, that might have been a valid question if Time hadn’t spent 10 years licking the hindquarters of one Bill

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  • Well, over the weekend we got up to two feet of snow in places, mostly west of here. cam160011.jpgThere’s a foot and a half in my front yard, and in my driveway.  We shovel it out, but since the yard

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Eric Florack on March 10th, 2008

Comes a point in nearly every discussion about man and his endevors, where there is no room for compromise. This over-reach of governmental power is one such  Hume:

California parents who home school their children are reeling from a court

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Eric Florack on March 10th, 2008

Let’s see… since their tilt left, MSNBC has become a rolling joke. Who what do they cancel for ratings? Tucker Carlson.

Yeah, that makes sense. Cancel the only show on their air that had any hope of generating an actual

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Eric Florack on March 10th, 2008

Aside from the mess we described here last week for ANY kind of action as regards Florida and Michigan,  the Democrats are now willing to add to that a mail-in scheme.

WASHINGTON -(Fox)  A consensus began to emerge Sunday that

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The Times Online, yesterday, puts some fresh light on plastic bags and those who want them banned:

 Scientists and environmentalists have attacked a global campaign to ban plastic bags which they say is based on flawed science and exaggerated claims.

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Eric Florack on March 9th, 2008

Today, McQ examines the story of The Navy Cross; the Navy's 2nd highest honorSGT Willie Copeland III, a Navy Cross recipient. As Bruce says, you wonder how you’d react to such a situation. We can only hope we’d react with the level of bravery and smarts

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Eric Florack on March 9th, 2008

Jeff Jacoby:

WHAT DO ethanol and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Each is a good reminder of that most powerful of unwritten decrees, the Law of Unintended Consequences – and of the all-too-frequent tendency of solutions imposed by

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Eric Florack on March 9th, 2008

Shoveling out today, we caught a foot of snow at least, hereabouts.

Meanwhile, the Kos kids are dealing with a snowstorm of their own… one created by Kos, himself. It’s amazing, what some will do in their fruitless attempt

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Eric Florack on March 8th, 2008

The President, today, by way of the BitsBlog Newsroom:

Unfortunately, Congress recently sent me an intelligence authorization bill that would diminish these vital tools. So today, I vetoed it. And here is why:

The bill Congress sent me

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Eric Florack on March 8th, 2008

(Chicago Sun-Times)-He was “the man behind the curtain” whose pervasive influence in the Blagojevich administration stacked state boards and lined his pockets, prosecutors charged Thursday as they opened their highly anticipated corruption case against Tony Rezko. But lawyers for

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  • Snowing in Rochester at the moment. Nothing newsworthy about that, particularly, except that the line of snow as this is being written runs from north and east of here to the south southwest, all the way down to New Orleans.

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Eric Florack on March 7th, 2008

Hume, last night:

Two Ohio Democrats tell The Politico newspaper that superdelegates in the state are banding together to get what they want – withholding their endorsements from Obama and Clinton until they receive what is called a concrete proposal

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Eric Florack on March 7th, 2008

Now, this is interesting.

It appears based on reports I’m seeing from ABC, that Tony Rezko is $50m in debt, and is living on handouts of $7500/mo.

So, the question becomes, how he was able to buy a bit

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