Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

Hume, last night:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to kill an amendment that would shield from lawsuits — employers who require their workers to speak English.

The Wall Street Journal reports one of those employers being targeted by an

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

The Confederate Yankee is reporting that The New Republic has canned its head fact checker.:

Interesting (my bold):

The New Republic is looking for an assistant editor to fill an immediate opening in our Washington, DC office. The assistant editor

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

McQ over at Q&O:

Frankly I’m surprised it has taken him so long to realize the potential.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to turn OPEC into “an organization of monopoly and exploitation,” according to Saudi King

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

Headline:

Obama: Takes Terrorism ‘Deadly Serious’

Well, as I gather it, so do the terrorists.  They’ve been at it a bit longer. Somehow, I suspect that your level of “serious” doesn’t rise to that of theirs…. particularly since yours has

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I’m starting to see an awful lot in the way of back channel chatter about Sybil Edmonds again.  In the last several weeks I’ve had at least three different people writing me, saying that I had to be delighted to

Continue reading about The Troofers Try Coughing Up Sibel Edmunds Again. It’s Not Credible This Time, Either.

Eric Florack on November 19th, 2007

Since this news came out that Hillary Clinton supposedly has some dirt to throw at Barack Obama, the apologists for the Clinton campaign have been coming out in force.  No surprise then one of the to find the chief chief

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Eric Florack on November 19th, 2007

So, ABC has decided to announce that Barack Obama is giving Hillary Clinton some serious trouble in Iowa.

The meme is that Obama is seen, by about 2 to 1, as the most trustworthy candidate of the two.  That’s not

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Eric Florack on November 19th, 2007

The figures are in:

DETROIT (AP) — In another blow to the Motor City’s tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation’s most dangerous city, according to a private research group’s controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual

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Eric Florack on November 19th, 2007

Boortz this morning:

The corrupt United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a summary for action on climate change. This summary says that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal.” Quite odd, really, since the Earth has actually

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Eric Florack on November 19th, 2007

McQ over at O&O made a trip to an oil platform, and relates his experiences here.

There’s a lot going on in that post, but I do want to point up something  that relates to a discussion we had the

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Eric Florack on November 19th, 2007

Surber is still playing “Name that Party”

I doubt AP would have downplayed a Republican losing over a racist remark.

As a member of the MSM for most of my adult life, I should resent charges of a pro-Democrat bias

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Eric Florack on November 18th, 2007

Times are tough for the Republican Party and its candidates. Earlier this month, according to Gallup, more people strongly disapproved of George W. Bush than any previous president since the advent?of polling—and, really, how could things be any different? Bush

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Eric Florack on November 18th, 2007

Nothing to see here. Just Move On, Citizens.

(Washington Post) – Federal prosecutors on Friday accused Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) of soliciting bribes in two alleged schemes that had not been previously disclosed.

The allegations, detailed in a seven-page

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Eric Florack on November 18th, 2007

Little Green Footballs gives us the latest example of the Democrats in action… I’m telling you folks, the Democrat party split is already here. It doesn’t break out well, so it’s best if you go RTWT.
In this case, God

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Eric Florack on November 18th, 2007

LOL…. This is going to go over huge in Orange County… especially this first para, from the Orange County Register, we see Mark Steyn, this morning…

I don’t believe the U.S. Constitution includes a right to abortion or gay marriage

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