davidl on October 19th, 2007

Thomas Lifson, American Thinker, makes clear the intent of Dirty Harry Reid’s letter to the CBO of Clear Channel:

The letter is, in fact, an important historical document, representing an attempt to silence the single most prominent private citizen

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I honestly don’t understand why I’m spending any amount of time on this story at all, except for the fact that Andrew Sullivan gets himself Bitch-slapped by Mike Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard:

Does Andrew Sullivan read stories before he

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Eric Florack on October 18th, 2007

Heh.

WASHINGTON-(AP)- The Democratic-controlled House failed on Thursday to override President Bush‘s veto of a politically popular children’s health bill, and the White House instantly called for compromise talks on a replacement.

“As long as the bottom line is

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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 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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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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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

OK a few notes left over from tonight….

Mind you, these are in no particular order.  It’s too fricking late to be that organized.

  • No, Adkins, traffic was never a problem.  I should tell you that it did manage to
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davidl on October 16th, 2007

Our sympathy to Randi Rhodes. May she get well soon.

Our deep felt animus the Bitsblog’s Jerk of the Day, Err America’s Jon Elliot, who manged to enage his gator sized mouth before activating his brain.  Barooosk, Talking Radio :

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Eric Florack on October 16th, 2007

While looking around the left side of the sphere just now, I found what is perhaps the most blatant double standard I’ve seen all week… I’ll give you a screen cap and the address.

http://thepopulistblog.com/2007/10/16/randi-rhodes-victim-of-mugging/

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Drill this one for full

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Eric Florack on October 15th, 2007

By way of Memorandum, I see a New York Times article from Richard Perez-Pena:

Paul E. Steiger, who was the top editor of The Wall Street Journal for 16 years, and a pair of wealthy Californians are assembling a

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davidl on October 15th, 2007

Bit posted Lefty Fight Night earlier today. Well we already have the sequel. Matt Dudge is repoting the pending return of Don Imus. This is Dudge’s golden tidbit:

Imus is said to be particularly incensed by Senator Hillary Clinton’s “shameless

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davidl on October 14th, 2007

Al GoreShocking news from Two Thousand, the New York Times admits, kind of, sort of, that Al Gore lost Florida:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — Al Gore‘s seven-year journey from loser to laureate began in bitterness, settled for a time into

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Eric Florack on October 14th, 2007

O, yes, good old Libby. She is once again showing her concern for her fellow man.  (think about it)

I swear I’m worried about McQ. I’ve always thought of him as a sort of rational voice for his side of

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Eric Florack on October 13th, 2007

By way of Boortz, let’s check out another ‘offended Muslim” story.

 Muslim students at the University of Toronto demanded halal food on their campus. Fine. The school gave in and gave them a long-awaited halal option at an on-campus

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