Eric Florack on December 8th, 2007

Me at Q&O where Dale Franks is properly agonizing over ‘torture’:

Do we really want the government to do “unpleasant, unsavory and sometimes awful things” in the defense of our freedom?

I am amazed that a veteran of our military

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davidl on December 8th, 2007

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Too “tricky” to speak out against honor killings, and you can’t teach an old feminist new tricks

Mark Steyn National Review.

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davidl on December 7th, 2007

Mrs. Wiliam ClintonCNN”s, Clinton News Network,  Maria Bartiromo interviewed Mrs. Clinton on the mortage lending problem, video.

Somehow the Smartest Woman in the World comes across as clueless.    Mrs. Clinton proposes spending five billion dollars of the taxpayers money.  Yet she

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davidl on December 7th, 2007

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Huckabee: go to a Mormon church. Prove to me that you aren’t a narrow-minded bigot like so many of your supporters seem to be

Rusty Shackleford, Jawa Report

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davidl on December 7th, 2007

The Sister has yet another story about global warming lies.  

The IPCC falsified data showing a sea level rise from 1992-2002 according to Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, former head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden. 

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2007

John Hawkins at Right Wing News quotes a reader at The Corner who mused…

“You know what would really be funny? If Romney declares on Thursday that he has been saved and shows a YouTube clip of his baptism, and

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2007

Pear Harbor, Battleship Row, the USS Arizona, December 7th, 1941

The comparisons between the event that happened in Pearl Harbor 66 years ago today, and the events at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and in that Pennsylvania field, are unavoidable.  As are, unfortunately, the comparison of our reactions

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davidl on December 6th, 2007

For reasons beyond realm of understanding,  Bill Schneider of the Clinton News Network, a.k.a. CNN, attempted to trot out Ted Sorensen to hold former President Jack Kennedy as some sort of gold standard for religion.

Speaking to CNN Senior

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

In an Op-Ed in the WaPo today , John Bolton says, in part:

Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week. Rarely has an administration

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

Boortz;

Would some Rudy Giuliani supporter, or perhaps a campaign staffer, please write and explain to us the value of a home mortgage interest deduction to someone who does not pay income taxes.

Simple question … someone should have an

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Captain Ed, yesterday:

Dan Bartlett, former White House communications director, won’t keep many friends in the blogosphere after this interview in Texas Monthly. When asked about the relationship between the Bush White House and conservative bloggers, Bartlett responded that, in

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davidl on December 6th, 2007

AlfI really like Alf   However I would never vote for Alf.   Likewise Mike Huckabee might be a likable person, but his most definitely not qualified to be President.    We live in a dangerous world and Huckabee is simply too naive

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Rich Lowry…. who I have some stout dispute on in terms of the Fair Tax issue (It’d help if Rich actually did some research on the matter) gets it pretty much spot on here, as regards the rise of social

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

Canada.com:

Last month, an EKOS Research study for Transport Canada found seven out of 10 Canadians freely admit to exceeding speed limits from time to time, with another 11 per cent copping to speeding “only on highways.” Average speeding margins

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

We’re still looking for you and your blog to become Swamp Stompers.

We’re also looking for additional writers for BitsBlog. Traffic at BitsBlog has been growing at a rapid pace of late. Drop feedback, and let’s talk.

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