Eric Florack on February 19th, 2008

We continue to grow.

I’ve just added news feeds from NOAA to BitsBlog’s Newsroom. The button to get to the newsroom is at the top of every page.

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  • James Joyner notes the passage of another milestone… 24 million. He’s up to a million hits per month, now. I suppose this to be a good bench test for WordPress. Congrats from here, James.
  • With the new job, my posting

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Eric Florack on February 18th, 2008

If Obama makes it to the Nomination, pay particular attention to who his choice for VP is… it may weigh heavy on our future, if these reports are even nearly accurate.

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Eric Florack on February 18th, 2008

Today’s one of those weird days where I spend a good deal of time deep in the bowels of the blog’s website, tending little odd jobs that have been needful for some weeks, and also adding a large amount of

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Eric Florack on February 17th, 2008

SWAMP STOMPER ALERT

Chris Bowers, all around Knuckle-Dragger, is busy spreading rumors that Harry Reid is to resign as Majority leader.

OK, in reality, I don’t trust this at all… given his inability to admit failure, I see no reason

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Eric Florack on February 17th, 2008

Blue Crab Blvd is running a link to Evan Thomas, this morning, who in Gauius’ words:

….describes the complicated relationship between the media and the Clintons. In fact, the relationship between the press and any president or presidential candidate. Thomas

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Eric Florack on February 17th, 2008

Says Fellow Swamp Stomper, the Dread Pundit Bluto:

Democrat Seal Dr. Lyle Rossiter says that liberals are actually insane:

“Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says

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Eric Florack on February 16th, 2008

Give Boortz credit; The man is as snarky as they come Running this on the website pushes him over the edge top, today:

Snark of the day

For this, he gets BitsBlog “Snark of the day” award

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Eric Florack on February 16th, 2008

The Smoking Gun, today:

FEBRUARY 15–When radio talk show host Bernie Ward was arrested last year on child pornography charges, his lawyers downplayed the federal rap, saying that his client was merely doing research for a book when he

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Eric Florack on February 16th, 2008

Yesterday, David gave the Snark of the Day award to Vladimir Putin… and justifiably so, for his comment on Hillary Clinton:

“At a minimum, a head of state should have a head.”

Humor, of course, has to have a grain

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Eric Florack on February 16th, 2008

Peter Baker in the WaPo this morning:

As he gets closer to the Republican nomination, Sen. John McCain has been trying to balance his unqualified support for the Iraq war by reminding audiences that he was also a tough critic

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Eric Florack on February 16th, 2008

JOINT STATEMENT By the U.S. Embassy Baghdad and Multi-National Force-Iraq

Posted: 13 Feb 2008 02:33 PM CST

(Feb. 13, 2008) We warmly congratulate the Government of Iraq and the Council of Representatives on the parliamentary actions taken today to pass

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  • Congrats to the Confederate Yankee Bob Owens, and his wife Christine on the birth of a daughter on Thursday. By the way, guys… after some serious research, we now know what causes things like this: Beer.
  • A nice Valentine’s

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Eric Florack on February 15th, 2008

Mark Halperin apparently is either engaged in pandering or is losing his ability to chose the correct words for a given situation.

Lewis is a universally respected, historic figure who is the first prominent Democrat to go from squarely in

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Eric Florack on February 15th, 2008

James Joyner:

Between RealClearPolitics and Memeorandum, there must be a dozen articles this morning wondering if Barack Obama’s nomination is now a foregone conclusion, how Hillary Clinton managed to blow what seemed a sure thing, and how long Obama

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