Eric Florack on October 18th, 2007

The Rasmussen website is reporting this morning …

The first Rasmussen Reports poll of the Iowa Republican Caucus for 2008 finds former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney enjoying a six-point lead while former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson and former Arkansas Governor

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Eric Florack on October 18th, 2007

Patrick O’Connor over at The Politico ( BBCT: Memeorandum) is reporting that former speaker Dennis Hastert is planning on announcing that he’s going to be leaving the house later this year.

hasterthpg.jpgIn looking at the timing of all of

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Eric Florack on October 18th, 2007

One of the people noticing the democrats problems with the FISA legislation is Michelle Malkin. She properly labels at the FISA obstruction legislation.  She says:

Question of the night comes from Paul Mirengoff at Power Line in the wake of

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Eric Florack on October 18th, 2007

The Washington Times this morning is reporting a new threat from the south .  Actually, it’s an old threat and one we’ve talked about here before.  Part of border control after all, is disease control;

A Mexican national infected with

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

Jawa Report:

(Mexico City) On October 8th, Mexican writer of horror stories, Jose Luis Calva (pic), was arrested after fleeing from police who were investigating strange smells coming from his apartment.

Police were looking into the disappearance

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Megan McArdle yesterday noting the story that we talked about here today,  and the press refuses to talk about at all;

 Thanks to George Bush’s amazing deficit reduction plan, the budget deficit is now only 1.2% of GDP. If

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007
  • A thank you to Michelle Malkin for her link from VDARE.COM. Good article, by the way.
  • Noted in passing at Billy Beck’s…

> The Bawlmer Sun had a front page article
> on the “right-wing smear campaign” against
> the

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

Froomkin:

A defensive President Bush insisted that he was still relevant this morning in a news conference dominated by his bitter complaints about the Democratic Congress.

Asked how he found himself vetoing a children’s health insurance bill that had passed

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

Interesting article in The American Spectator this morning from Shawn Macomber, speaking of the Randi Rhodes thing, yesterday:

A Democratic Underground member went so far as to divine from the assault the opening salvos of “an ideology war between conservatives

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While I have Ace open in the other window, we’ll link another story from there, which matches the mold of the one about the deficit dropping to the lowest in five years…

Trend? Nah. I guess it’s only a story

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Ace notes something that I had observed yesterday, but didn’t have the time to comment on, given the events:

BizzyBlog corrects a bit and notes that the NYT (accidentally!) put a brief AP blurb about the story on page A22,

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

A thoughtful, caring post from RightWingDuck at IMAO today:

Ms. Rhodes was doing nothing wrong at the time except walking her dog. Many on the left are saying that this could not possibly be random. I agree, nothing is out

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

Boortz, yesterday;

A priest in London is being investigated for inciting racial hatred after expressing his Christian views in a parish newsletter. Father John Hayes commented on a case involving a Muslim girl who wanted to wear her full

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

Michelle, this morning, makes note of something we’ve noted here previously;

Innocent black Americans are being harassed, driven out of their neighborhoods, and targeted for murder.

Why isn’t it on the front page of every national newspaper? Why isn’t CNN

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