Eric Florack on December 23rd, 2006

The AP is reporting, just now:

KABUL, Afghanistan – A U.S. airstrike near the Pakistan border killed the Taliban’s southern military commander, a U.S. military spokesman said Saturday, calling him the highest-ranking Taliban ever slain by American forces.

Mullah

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davidl on December 23rd, 2006

Call it the sign of the times. Sholnn Freeman and Dale Russakoff, of the Washington Post report, “Toyota Expects to Be World’s No. 1 Automaker Next Year:”

Toyota said yesterday that it was on track to become the

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Eric Florack on December 22nd, 2006

Twas the Friday before Christmas and all through the town,

The entire population was considering how best not to drown.

It’s raining like crazy outside, right now, and has been all day.  Rochester finds itself on the northern end of

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davidl on December 22nd, 2006

Good news of sorts, rape, but not kidnapping and sexual offense, charges, have been dropped against Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, Duke lacross players falsely charged with rape. 

Aaron Beard reports: DURHAM, N.C. (AP) – Prosecutors

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Eric Florack on December 22nd, 2006

From the Israel Insider…. A verrrry interesting article as regards where Jimmy Crter has been getting his funding from. It explains quite a bit as regards his actions, today, and where his loyalties really lie. It doesn’t excerpt well, so

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Eric Florack on December 22nd, 2006

From The Detroit News today, we get a rough idea of how left wing ideologues operate;

DETROIT — The state’s largest city has no immediate plans to stop giving favor to businesses owned by minorities and women, despite the state

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davidl on December 22nd, 2006

The problem with this article is that it is news, and in a better world it would not be.    In Wisconsin, a federal court actually upheld the First Amendment, kind of, sort of.  

Matt Apuzzo reports that a federal court

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Eric Florack on December 21st, 2006

Well, my Christmas shopping is complete.  It would appear that I have a little less to worry about in terms of having to run up to the store and fight the crowds.  Having completed all of that, however, I am

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davidl on December 21st, 2006

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Mrs. Clinton thinks it take a villages to raise a chld.   Pamela Geller Oshry, a.k.a. Atlas, says:

It takes a village, my ass. I’ve got four kids, I do it all. If I left it to the village, they’d be

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Eric Florack on December 21st, 2006

My message on tolerance and intolerance is a simple one, straightforward , and can be expressed very quickly:

Those who tolerate everything, stand for nothing.

What do you stand for?

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Eric Florack on December 21st, 2006

Check out this little snip from Memeorandum, this morning:

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 Agence France Presse:
Congressman says Muslim lawmaker’s election threatens US values

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Discussion: cair.com and Think Progress

There seems something of a pattern developing, here.

Let’s see… We

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davidl on December 21st, 2006

Allahpundit sums it up well,

“There’s no rooting interest here. It’s the equivalent of a Saudi-Iranian standoff: all you’re hoping for is heavy casualties.”   

It is the Mouth, Rosie O’Donnell versus the Ego, Donald Trump.   If you have the stomach

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Eric Florack on December 20th, 2006

Almost done with shopping, but not quite.

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In an indication of just how nutty Winamp can get when given permission to mix at will, my system just cross-mixed Mannheim Steamroller, Alan Sherman with the Boston pops, and Ozzy’s ”

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davidl on December 20th, 2006

pelosi23.jpg Tom DeLay, yes the Tom Delay, at Tomdelay.com, detals Mrs Pelosi’s woes, “Nancy Pelosi has clearly stumbled out of the gate:”

In politics, I believe it is never a wise idea to underestimate one’s adversaries. Rather, we conservatives

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Eric Florack on December 20th, 2006

The way we write affects both style and substance. The loquacious formulations of late Henry James, for instance, owe in part to his arthritis, which made longhand impossible, and instead he dictated his writing to a secretary. In this aspect,

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