Uh-Oh… It appears DiFi is up to her knees in serious trouble with her own supporters. Says Michelle:

The nutroots are unhinged over Calif. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s recent votes to confirm Bush attorney general Michael Mukasey and federal appeals court

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

COALITION FORCES FIND EXECUTION SITE, LARGE CACHE; EIGHT KILLED, 13 DETAINED

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 12:09 PM CST

COALITION FORCES FIND EXECUTION SITE, LARGE CACHE; EIGHT KILLED, 13 DETAINED

IRAQI FORCES, U.S. SPECIAL FORCES DETAIN TWO EXTREMISTS IN AS SA’DIYAH

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

Lest anyone think the Oil for Food business has gone away, The NY SUN will disabuse you of that notion straight away:

A Switzerland-based oil trading company has pleaded guilty to paying $13 million in kickbacks to the Iraqi government

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

Jim Wren, who runs PoliSat.com, passes this one along...

It’s video…. great stuff.

(Side note to Jim… You’re better off using the feedback address.)

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

An elderly couple had dinner at another couple’s house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen.
The two gentlemen were talking, and one said, “Last night we went out to a new restaurant and

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

If you want to know what the Democratic presidential candidates and the Democratic Party believe, the debates, often derided as intellectually inconsequential, reveal a great deal. The problem is that news media almost never report the most important statements the

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

Dale Franks, this morning notes that while Ron Paul has come out with a statement about racism. And Dale, analytical type that he is, parses the statement out and finds it wanting:

Mr. Paul seems to be making the old

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

So, today… Just today… we find out that Edwards and Kerry never really got along during their campaign in ’04. And this from the New York Times, no less:

To the end of their disappointing run, the two men

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

Reuters is reporting:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two separate teams of researchers announced on Tuesday they had transformed ordinary skin cells into batches of cells that look and act like embryonic stem cells — but without using cloning technology and without

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

I want to call your attention to the advertisement on the extreme lower right of the right side column.

The ad has been run free of charge on this site because I believe seriously in the project. it’s a part

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

Yes, some of the sharper among you have noticed that the big red “Drop Cap” in the first letter of each post is gone. I removed it recently. It looked good, when it worked. Trouble is, too often, it didn’t

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

LA Times:

 Dick Wilson, a character actor who turned “Please don’t squeeze the Charmin” into a national catchphrase as exasperated shopkeeper Mr. Whipple in the TV commercial campaign that ran for more than two decades, has died. He was 91.

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

Jonah Goldberg in today’s LA TIMES:

As the hopeless but energetic presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) builds momentum in name recognition, fundraising and cross-ideology appeal, media conservatives are beginning to attack Paul in earnest

You’re usually more on

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The Washington Post:

Maryland lawmakers early this morning passed about $1.4 billion in annual tax increases and a public referendum on legalizing 15,000 slot machines as a far-reaching special session of the General Assembly hurtled to a close.

Passage of

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

Michael van der Galiën:

Of course, the problem isn’t that Fox News is biased, it’s that the bias isn’t liberal / Laborite. No, the real problem is that Fox News has a conservative bias. If the news network was

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