davidl on April 28th, 2009

Senator Arlen Specter, (U – Scotland) has made if official.  He will caucus with the Democrats and seek re-electiion as a Democrat.

Chris Cillizza, Washington Post:

Specter To Switch Parties

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation

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Doctor Tim Ball, Canada Free Press:

The Issue

The US Congress is currently discussing the Obama climate change strategy and Cap and Trade. One part of the plan says, “Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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davidl on April 28th, 2009

More on the adventures of the clueless Secretary 0f  Homeland Security, Janet “Bitch” Napolitano, from Bridget Johnson, Hill::

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended the government’s response at a press conference Monday afternoon as reporters asked her about the

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davidl on April 28th, 2009

The Obama adminisation has its collettive head stuck up in Obamaland.   So what Obamaland data, video:

September Tenth of course. Call New York’s senior senator, annd demand that Schumer get an apology from BO.

More:  Allah Pundit, Hot Air

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davidl on April 27th, 2009

The Barack Obama economic plan, Obamanomics, has failed.  So says  the White House,

April 26 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. economy will continue to contract “for some time to come,” said Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National

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davidl on April 27th, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Conservation:

Me, to waitress: Do you remember by [usual] order?

Waitress: It [already] is in.

Me: [heart patters]

Me, to same waitress: [recalls conservation] Is this what is like in Heaven?

Waitress: [smiles]

Me: [misssion accomplished]

Canucks call Algore

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2009

Ben Smith, and Jon Martin at Politico:

There was Sen. John McCain’s daughter and his campaign manager who last week demanded that their fellow Republicans embrace same-sex marriage. Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman – the most devoted modernizer among the party’s

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davidl on April 27th, 2009

Memoraundum for Mrs. Clinton, this how you deal with pirates, Associated Press:

NAIROBI, Kenya – The small white skiff approached the Italian cruise ship Melody after dinnertime as it sailed north of the Seychelles, the pirates firing wildly toward

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2009
  • @jtlol Can someone explain to me how Perez Hilton’s nonsense is any different than that od andrew sullivan?  #
  • Re: David Kellerman: Ron Brown, call your office, please #
  • where is OwlGore today, anyway? #tcot #hhrs #

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davidl on April 26th, 2009

One, I am taking the liberty of editing Patterico , just a wee bit:

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (and Dick and Lynn Cheney daughter) Liz Cheney rips Norah O’Donnell a new.

Two, I second Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard

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davidl on April 26th, 2009

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It’s not just the tactic of using Republicans for bipartisan photo-ops, and then cutting them loose before partisan decisions, that irks Obama’s opponents. The new president wasted no time rushing forward with policies and legislation guaranteed to drive Republicans nuts.

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Eric Florack on April 25th, 2009

James at OTB:

Manfred Nowak, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on torture, proclaimed yesterday that the United States must prosecute the lawyers who drew up the torture memos and that if we fail to do so it is the duty of

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Eric Florack on April 25th, 2009

Founding Bloggers:

Yesterday, we officially filed our DMCA counter-notice in the matter of CNN’s censorship of Founding Bloggers’ coverage of the Chicago Tax Day Tea Party. A copy of the counter-notice is available at Ben Sheffner’s blog Copyrights & Campaigns,

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Eric Florack on April 25th, 2009

Sometimes, the world is a smaller place than we ever imagine it could be.

A few years ago, used to work at a bank as an information technology person. (Hence the nickname, ‘BitHead’. I’m a tech, by trade, usually working

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davidl on April 25th, 2009

Gotta love the leftard logic.  It somehow lowers our standing in the world to get Khalid Shaykh Muhammed’s hair wet, but having half a million children die in an acceptable price, from May 12, 1996:

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions

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