Eric Florack on December 7th, 2007

If there is a more annoying person in the world of punditry than Arianna Huffington, I certainly don’t know of it.

The way that Mike Huckabee has handled the furor caused by the Huffington Post’s coverage of his role

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2007

(12-06) 15:29 PST San Francisco –SFGATE.COM-Bernie Ward, a popular liberal San Francisco radio talk show host and former Catholic priest, has been indicted on federal child pornography charges, authorities said today.

Ward, 56, surrendered to federal authorities

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2007

Pear Harbor, Battleship Row, the USS Arizona, December 7th, 1941

The comparisons between the event that happened in Pearl Harbor 66 years ago today, and the events at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and in that Pennsylvania field, are unavoidable.  As are, unfortunately, the comparison of our reactions

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2007

It’s cold up here in the great lakes region.  We’ve been down into the teens most nights, lately.  We caught perhaps 8in. of snow total, so far.  Most of that has retreated.  It’s still a driving issue, if your vehicle

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

Captain Ed, who clearly is getting bored, or something. Early winter doldrums?

 How does one address a letter to the dictator-for-life of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-Il? Would it be a “Dear Jong” letter?

(Slap!)

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

Steyn:

Up north, the Canadian Islamic Congress announced the other day that at least two of Canada’s “Human Rights Commissions” – one federal, one provincial – had agreed to hear their complaints that their “human rights” had been breached by

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

As promised, I’ve had the opportunity to look over the Romney “I have a Religion” speech.

As such things go, it wasn’t bad.  Romney  demonstrated a better public speaking ability than I thought he had.  That was my first surprise. 

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

In an Op-Ed in the WaPo today , John Bolton says, in part:

Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week. Rarely has an administration

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

All of a sudden, Memeorandum isn’t crawling BitsBlog.

Not sure why.

Update: I’m breathing, again. Memeorandum has us listed.

What concerned me is I’d made a change to the search engine optimization, and I thought I’d trashed it. Guess not.

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

Boortz;

Would some Rudy Giuliani supporter, or perhaps a campaign staffer, please write and explain to us the value of a home mortgage interest deduction to someone who does not pay income taxes.

Simple question … someone should have an

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

I don’t know, but this seems a great start.

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Captain Ed, yesterday:

Dan Bartlett, former White House communications director, won’t keep many friends in the blogosphere after this interview in Texas Monthly. When asked about the relationship between the Bush White House and conservative bloggers, Bartlett responded that, in

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

A bloody mess, quite literally, in Nebraska yesterday. The Jawa Report did a great job with tracking the story.

And no, don’t start with me about gun control.

One armed citizen …as opposed to a store full of sheep….would have

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Rich Lowry…. who I have some stout dispute on in terms of the Fair Tax issue (It’d help if Rich actually did some research on the matter) gets it pretty much spot on here, as regards the rise of social

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

Ruffini tells us the Ronmey ‘Religion” speech (I don’t think it’ll be focused on that quite as much as is being billed)  is going to be on this morning at 10:30 EST.

I’ll hold off on commenting until I get

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