davidl on September 21st, 2015

Yet more evidence that Carly is right and big government is incompetent. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) vaunted emissions testing is worthless, and to the the private sector to find it, from Richard Weiss and Naomi Kresge, Bloomberg Business:

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Eric Florack on March 24th, 2015

First stop this morning was in New Paltz New York, essentially within shooting distance of McPhillips. I regret my schedule doesn’t leave me enough time to offer him some coffee. It would be an interesting meeting, I think.
I managed

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I already took up this argument about the culpability of the state in the case of the accident involving Tracy Morgan along the Jersey Pike

But now comes an even stronger case. This time,http://7online.com/news/nj-officer-killed-on-duty-in-route-17-wreck-driver-arrested/193906 involving truck vs police car,

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Eric Florack on July 3rd, 2014

Let me preface this with a question:

If a woman’s birth control of choice is to keep her clothes on, should the government be able to force her employer to buy her wardrobe?

You see, there’s a logical inconsistency with

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Eric Florack on April 21st, 2014

http://www.returnofkings.com/33751/the-obsolete-man-the-death-of-the-american-mind

A bit of brilliance at the link.
The article is lengthy and a little geeky, given it draws geavily on an old ‘Twightlight Zone’ episode.  The author, however, draws a point in a fashion I’ve never quite seen before,

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http://freebeacon.com/blog/obamas-new-hhs-secretary-proved-her-loyalty-by-clinton-by-digging-through-a-dead-mans-trash/

Perhaps someone can explain how the description at the link, doesn’t match what I suggested such a replacement would be;

Second, let us postulate for a moment on her replacement. The position of HHS Secretary under Obama going…. (Leaning?)….

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/why_do_jay_carney_and_claire_shipman_decorate_their_house_with_soviet_propaganda_posters.html

Is there any doubt at all why Jay Carney works for Obama?

Imagine Nazi posters up in the home of any GOP staffer with the status of Carney, and tell me there wouldn’t be hell to pay for it.

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davidl on March 11th, 2014

On the bright side, this would be the wake up call for Senator Diane Feinstein massive apathy to the Obama regime’s whole disregard for privacy.  On the factual side Feinstein is just not all that bright, from the Washington Post

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davidl on December 1st, 2013

Roger Taney wrote that citizens had the right to keep and travel with guns, Scott v. Sanford (1857)

For if they were so received, and entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens, it would exempt them from the operation

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Eric Florack on November 23rd, 2012

OK, let’s start with a memory:

Well, the meaning of a yellow light is changing, according to the National Journal:

The National Motorists Association has a warning for the millions of drivers hitting the road for the busy holiday travel

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davidl on July 27th, 2012

Mayor Rahm Emanuel claims to  know “Chicago values”, which somehow seem to exclude the First and Second Amendments.   While Emanuel’s claim to know Chicago values is dubious,  Anne Sorock,  seems to know how to blog, fom Legal Insurrection:

Alderman

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davidl on April 21st, 2012

What ever Barack Obama may be, smart he is not. First, Obama, in all his not so infinite wisdom, nationalized the student loan business. Now Dim Won, b/k/a Obama, is moaning that student load recipients are stuck with just one

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20005458-38.html

Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20005458-38.html

Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.

By a 357

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