davidl on July 30th, 2007

Allah Pundit, Hot Air. posts two excellent reasons why republicans should never agree to a Youtude/CNN debate, two twits with cameras.

I am sure bloggers can come up with some serious intelligent questions and that CNN will never

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davidl on July 30th, 2007

Ingmar Bergman Swedish film direcctor Ingmar Bergman has died at age eighty-nine.  Adam Bernstein, Washington Post:

Ingmar Bergman, , an Academy Award-winning Swedish writer-director whose name came to define an entire genre of stark movies about the human condition, such as

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davidl on July 29th, 2007

Columbia Journalism Review’s Paul McLeary

How dare a college grad and engaged citizen volunteer to join the Army to fight for his country! (Which is something that most of the brave souls who inhabit the milblog community prefers to leave

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davidl on July 28th, 2007

Charles SchumerI was tempted to write about Chuckles’ lastest joke, However John Hinderacker, Power Line, trashs Chuckie pretty well.  It is not like opposing the President’s judicial nominees is anything new for Chuck.  He simply has opposed them all.

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davidl on July 27th, 2007

Eliot Spitzer’s personal recipe for disaster. The hubris of his administration directly descends from Spitzer’s excessive confidence in his own political mandate. Will the Dems follow?

Maggie Gallagher, on the Eliot Spitzer disaster.   Read her entire column.

 

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davidl on July 27th, 2007

Mrs. ClintonIt was the pet idea of President Lyndon B. Johnson to allow the North Vietnamese unlimited sanctuary in occupied Cambobia.  Now, the so-called Smartest Woman in the World, proposes to adopt Johnson’s policy, but this time in Pakistan, from Dawn

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davidl on July 27th, 2007

At last, Pvt Beauchamp’s, a.k.a. Scott Thomas, ambitions are revealed.  Beauchamp wants to write military novels, just like Senator Jim Webb, Virginia.  From Jack Kelly, Real Clear Politics:

In a blog entry for May 8, 2006, Pvt. Beauchamp describes

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davidl on July 26th, 2007

A “biparistan” bill is a democrat sponsored bad idea with a useful idiot republican as a obstensive co-sponsor.   Not content to attempt to strangle free speech on the public airwave, democrats are now proposing to regulate private speech.  Adam Thomas

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davidl on July 26th, 2007

The mind is such a terrible thing to waste, and with Glenn Greenwald there is a lot of wasted gray matter.  Alas

Greenwald loses it:

One of the lowest and most dishonest tactics is to attempt to smear and

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davidl on July 25th, 2007

When Eliot Spitzer played the Sheriff of Wall Street, his targets lacked the ability to fight back.  Well Spitzer has learned that his new target, State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, has the power to fight back and intends to

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davidl on July 25th, 2007

The Global War on Terror, on the home front:

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Bush administration took action Tuesday against an Iran-based foundation, including its U.S. branch, for allegedly providing support to Hezbollah, a terrorist group the United States

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davidl on July 24th, 2007

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Spitzer denies any knowledge of what his closes aide was doing, which seems improbable.

But hang on. Even he didn’t know, isn’t this the same guy who wants corporate executives held criminally liable for the mistakes of their underlings, even

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davidl on July 24th, 2007

The Sister didn’t bother to watch the debate.   Apparently CNN didn’t bother either.   The debate had a serious lack of  questions.

 

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davidl on July 24th, 2007

If New York State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, were go on American Idol, what song would he sing?  Easy, “I Shot the Sheriff.”   The New York Times:

ALBANY, July 23 — Gov. Eliot Spitzer indefinitely suspended his communications director

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davidl on July 23rd, 2007

reid.jpgIn the Washington Post, Bob Novok, writes of Dirty Harry Reid’s efforts to turn back the calander on ear mark reform:

When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid picked up his ball and went home after his staged all-night session

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