davidl on May 9th, 2007

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The junior senator from Illinois must have the wettest feet in town because he keeps putting his feet in his mouth.

Don Surber.

 

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Eric Florack on May 9th, 2007

Mark Malloch Brown spoke Monday to a crowded auditorium at the World Bank’s headquarters, warning that the bank’s mission was “hugely at risk” as long as Paul Wolfowitz remained its president. Only hours earlier, news leaked that a special committee

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Eric Florack on May 9th, 2007

RICHMOND, Va. -AP- Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech Tuesday, drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died. The death toll was 12.

Ya

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hillarysm.jpgMrs. Clinton’s theory of winning the presidency based her sex took a hit when French voters rejected socialist Ségolène Royal.   David Bouder reports on another hit to Mrs. Clinton’s theory:

NEW YORK (AP) – It surely wasn’t what

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Eric Florack on May 8th, 2007

It’s a bit warmer around here of late, currently 71° at sunset.  Rather nice, actually.  And as warm as it’s been all year.

* No music? No, I’ll save my music comments for last. You’ll see why.
* Boortz makes

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davidl on May 8th, 2007

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Gee. A terror plot involving “Islamic radicals.” Imagine that.

Sister Toldjah

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Eric Florack on May 8th, 2007

The Star-Ledger is reporting:

Federal investigators last night arrested six Islamic radicals who were planning a heavily armed attack against soldiers at Fort Dix as part of a jihad against America, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In a statement

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Eric Florack on May 8th, 2007

Must have been a slow news day.   The media has a stock of standard stories they periodically dust-off and then foist-off as if they were new.   The nice thing about blogging about them, is that no new creative effort is

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davidl on May 8th, 2007

Mrs. Clinton

Kerstin Gehmlich reports on a potential pitfall for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign:

PARIS (Reuters) – Socialist Segolene Royal failed to win over a majority of women voters in France’s presidential election and may have paid a price for focusing

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Eric Florack on May 7th, 2007

The Music:

lotr1.jpgOK, this is going to be a little odd; I’m actually listening to the soundtrack from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.

Sometimes, particularly after you’ve heard a sound track a few times, by virtue of

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davidl on May 7th, 2007

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James Lileks, a terrific writer and one of the best newspaper columnists in America, says on his blog today that his newspaper, the Minneapolis-St.Paul Star-Tribune, has decided to kill his column and have him write straight local news stories. This

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davidl on May 7th, 2007

The Associated Press reported on republican in general, and the Rudy Guliani campaign in particualr, dissatisfaction  with the selction of Keith Olbermann as republican debate moderator.

Greenwald seemed to resent the characterization of Olbermann as the partisan hack that he

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Eric Florack on May 7th, 2007

Continuing from the earlier post, there’s another lesson we can learn from recent events in Europe: Perhaps our image in the world isn’t quite so damaged as the left would have us think.

We have in France a President

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Eric Florack on May 7th, 2007

CAMARILLO, Calif. â€”AP–  Gasoline prices have surged to a record nationwide average of $3.07 per gallon, nearly 20 cents higher than two weeks earlier, according to oil industry analyst Trilby Lundberg.

The previous record was $3.03 per gallon on

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Eric Florack on May 7th, 2007

Financial Times– Paris– Let the finger-pointing begin. Ségolène Royal’s defeat on Sunday night left the French Socialist party in disarray and searching for someone to blame. There is hardly a shortage of scapegoats.

It is the party’s third consecutive presidential

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