Eric Florack on July 30th, 2007

I was camping over a long weekend, and am just getting back up to speed.

I wondered how long this was going to take… Mchael O’Hanlon and Ken Pollack have posted a piece in the in the New York Times,

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Eric Florack on July 30th, 2007

 San Francisco -AP- Tom Snyder, whose smoke-filled interviews were a staple of late night television and an inspiration for Dan Aykroyd on “Saturday Night Live,” has died after a struggle with leukemia. He was 71.

tomsnyder.jpgSnyder died Sunday in San

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Eric Florack on July 30th, 2007

lightning-2a.jpgHAMLIN, Pa.  —AP- Lightning can strike twice. Just ask Don Frick.

Frick said he survived his second lightning strike Friday — 27 years to the day of his first bout with a bolt — and emerged a bit shaken with

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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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K. C. Johnson, the other day:

Beyond illustrating the flawed conception of academic freedom too prevalent in the contemporary academy, the Churchill case illustrates what happens when universities abandon excellence as the primary criterion in the personnel process. Well

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Eric Florack on July 29th, 2007

Michelle Says:

Kudos to this judge:

A 73-year-old man has been ordered to clean a veterans memorial with a toothbrush for taking part in a scam to solicit scrap yards for metal, saying it was to be used to

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Eric Florack on July 29th, 2007

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IRAQ WAR PUSHBACK ON THE WAY!

 

10,000+ To Take to Streets

Supporting Missions of Troops in Iraq

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Above: Collage of photos from Move America Forward’s

past pro-troop national caravans.

 

STORY POSTED ONLINE HERE: http://www.moveamericaforward.org/index.php/MAF/MAFNews

 

(SACRAMENTO) – With General David Petraeus

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Eric Florack on July 29th, 2007


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Leadership. An intangible quality which is innate in some and must be taught and nurtured in others. But in combat, there is no substitute for good leadership. And the Marine Corps is among the best organizations in the world for

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Eric Florack on July 29th, 2007

I guess I’m not surprised that the conversation about honor, the specifically as regards Scott Thomas Beauchamp, over at Q&O, is still going. Equally unsurprising, is that there are several offshoots to the conversation.  And, again, it doesn’t surprise

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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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Eric Florack on July 28th, 2007

Reports Fox’s Bret Baier:

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says he will investigate a threatening letter sent to a global warming skeptic by the head of a group advocating the use of renewable energy.

The Washington Times reports

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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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Eric Florack on July 28th, 2007

There is an old adage about how PETA nutballs target rich women wearing fur, instead of motorcycle gangs wearing leather, because the rich women wearing fur are not likely to people living crap of you.  So we find Insta-Glenn this

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Eric Florack on July 28th, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito “duped” the U.S. Senate into confirming them, a top Democratic lawmaker charged on Friday, days after a key Republican questioned if they had lived up to

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