Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2007

Steyn, today:

How do you feel about the American hostages in Iran?

No, not the guys back in the Seventies, the ones being held right now.

What? You haven’t heard about them?

Odd that, isn’t it? But they’re there. For

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2007

From Fox’s Political Grapevine:

John MurthaA follow-up on Thursday’s item about that so-called “mystery” earmark request from John Murtha: the Pennsylvania Democrat was awarded $1 million for the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure — which it turns out does not

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2007

messner.jpgRALEIGH, North Carolina -AP—

Tammy Faye Messner, who as Tammy Faye Bakker helped her husband, Jim, build a multimillion- dollar evangelism empire and then watched it collapse in disgrace, has died. She was 65.

Elsewhere, stocks in mascara and lipstick

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davidl on July 22nd, 2007

hillarysm.jpgWould the election of democrat, Mrs. Clinton, Barack Obama or John Edwards, mean the destruction of the State of Israel?  Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, seems to making that suggestion.

It follows that if Iran is hell bent on acquiring nuclear

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davidl on July 22nd, 2007
Don Surber writes, in the Charleston Daily Mail
WHEN I looked at the numbers last month, the Gallup Poll showed President Bush’s job approval was at 32 percent, and Congress was at 24 percent. Could things get any worse?

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Diana West at TownHall.com:

Somehow, American war goals have become a secondary consideration when America wages war. As Command Sgt. Maj. Jeff Mellinger put it to The Washington Times: “We could absolutely crush every one of (our enemies in Iraq),

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davidl on July 21st, 2007

Cindy SheehanFor the many long months that Mrs. Sheehan was the leftards’ mascot and darling, she reported no threats on her life.  Now that Mrs. Sheehan has declared her intent to run against Mrs. Pellosi, she is now reporting attempts on

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Eric Florack on July 21st, 2007

William Kristol , in an article due out in the 7/30 edition of the Weekly Standard:

williamkristol.jpgCindy Sheehan, mother of a soldier who was killed in Iraq, emerged on the American political scene two years ago. Distraught and unstable,

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So, George Stienbrenner isn’t happy with “The Bronx is Burning”?

(Shrug )

Yeah, well, about that….. I’ve got a suggestion for ya, Georgie…. How about putting a real team together?

A team that isn’t routinely getting its lazy backside kicked

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Eric Florack on July 21st, 2007

You have to wonder sometimes what liberals are using for brain power.  Ross Doutahat, for example:

I’m fed up with the President’s messiah complex, and I don’t bloody well want to hear any more about Bush’s “theological perspective” that freedom

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Eric Florack on July 21st, 2007

Funny, how we’re not seeing much made of this, given what we saw aimed at Rush Limbagh just recently…

LAGUNA NIGUEL, California —FOX- Al Gore’s son faces up to three years in prison if convicted on felony drug-possession charges and

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Eric Florack on July 21st, 2007

Caught a rather nice sunset last night. These are taken just outside Bergen, NY. Drill each for full size. Warning: These are large file hi res versions. Caught this while railfanning with the boys, last evening.
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Eric Florack on July 21st, 2007

OK, it’s just entertainment, and perhaps I’m as guilty as Megan McArdle is, here, of reading too much into it. Frankly, I might not even have made a comment on the book at all, except for this article of

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Eric Florack on July 20th, 2007

Robin Givhan in the WaPo.

There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton.

She was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education. She was wearing a rose-colored blazer

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About everybody on the planet, seemingly, has picked up on this story within the last few days of the kid who went ahead and put together a dream truck, only to see the environmentalist fascist crowd in his neighborhood decide

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