Eric Florack on December 17th, 2007

Another honorable mention at the Outside the Beltway caption contest

I still like the Vulcan line better… after cats have pointed ears, and one of these cats is slightly green.

Oh, well.

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Eric Florack on December 17th, 2007

Finally, the 6th Annual Right Wing News Conservative Blog Awards are live. Find out which blogs were voted as the best — and worst — by their fellow bloggers. You can see won these once per year awards, which are

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Eric Florack on December 17th, 2007

The Wall Street Journal:

Hillary Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls has diminished, and with Oprah Winfrey stumping for Barack Obama, she’s called increasingly on the “star power” of husband Bill. But the ubiquitous presence of the former president

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Eric Florack on December 16th, 2007

Glenn says:

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP: Sadly, you don’t have to:

A video of a Gucci- and Louis Vuitton-clad politician attacking capitalism then struggling to explain how his luxurious clothes square with his socialist beliefs has become an

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Eric Florack on December 16th, 2007

NEW YORK —AP- Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits “Leader of the Band” and “Same Old Lang Syne” helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56.His

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Eric Florack on December 16th, 2007

Interesting post over at Photopreneur, involving the world’s most famous photoshop fakes.

BBCT: LGF

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Memeorandum has several endorsements up today, from papers aroundthe country… mostly those “serving” in or near primary states.

I suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody, that almost universally.  The papers are putting their endorsements for the Republican nomination

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Eric Florack on December 15th, 2007

We are currently experiencing some RSS feed problems here at BitsBlog.

Since the feed has been working well for some months now, it’s my guess that we are simply overwhelming the linked with volume.  What we’re getting his timeouts at

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Eric Florack on December 15th, 2007

There’s an interesting discussion going on and just now a cross blog discussion about religion and politics.  The interested parties I’ve noticed thus far are Cassandra over at Villainous Company, and Bruce McQuain over at Q&O. In turn, the discussion

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Eric Florack on December 15th, 2007

Mike Pethar over at Jawa:

This week, a battle in the gender war was won by the women. The heraldic lion on the coat of arms of the Nordic Battlegroup has been castrated.

Ouch!

The armed forces agreed to

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Eric Florack on December 14th, 2007

So Britain has decided to sign away its sovereignty.

They will tell you that’s not what happened, but trust me;  That’s exactly what happened today.  When the event finally showed up it was rather anti-climatic, the wishes of the people

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Eric Florack on December 14th, 2007

I said yesterday morning that Major league baseball and its report that was issued yesterday about steroid use, was going to end up being a sham. They’d throw a few players under the bus, and that would be the end

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Eric Florack on December 14th, 2007

JPOST- Iran tested a newly-developed ballistic missile on the day of the Annapolis conference, Channel 10 reported Wednesday.

The Ashoura missile has a range of 2,000 kilometers and is capable of reaching Israel, US Army bases in the Middle East

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Eric Florack on December 14th, 2007

Billy;

An enduring mystery to me: I do not understand why anyone in this country stacks so much as one brick on top of another. Observe:

“The Bush tax cuts, more than any other policy, are crippling the government financially.”

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Eric Florack on December 14th, 2007

December 12, 2007 — NY Post-ALBANY – A top state housing official – who is married to one of Gov. Spitzer‘s close aides – is set to quietly receive a $46,000-a-year pay raise, The Post has learned.Priscilla Almodovar, who

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