Eric Florack on January 30th, 2008

Five minutes after my last post, we lost power. Just now came back. A weird day. Snowing sideways, at the moment. I noted footage of the snow and blow act out in Des Moines yesterday. It’s here, today. Re-starting my

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Eric Florack on January 29th, 2008

John Hawkins deals with a reader’s question about why the ‘sphere hasn’t been more effective in this campaign:

First of all, it is correct to say that the blogosphere’s two favorite candidates have been Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson, both

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davidl on January 24th, 2008

I’d go longer, but I don’t know what to make of it.   On Memeorandum, you have stories of the open race war between the Clintons and Barack Obama.  Meanwhile, a few leftsided bloggers are upset because a republican operative

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2008

Yeah, I was out of action for a while. Came up with some kind of stomach bug, which basically kept me on a path between the bed and the bathroom. I’m still not 100%, but at least I can make

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davidl on January 19th, 2008

Kathy, Five Feet of Fury, wants you to see Scarlet Johanssen’s “Army of Two

Addendum: 

More, Marine Corps News, via Memeorandum.

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davidl on January 18th, 2008

Ezra Levant fired the cyber age’s version of the musket shot fired April 19, 1775.    Now the musical:

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Hat Tip: KShaidle, Small Dead Animals.

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Fersboo on January 14th, 2008

Tim Blair, probably the only sane person from Austraila on the web I know, has major abdominal surgery next week.  Its cancer.  He plans to have his remaining non-cancerous body parts home by early-to-mid February.

Head on over and

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Eric Florack on January 14th, 2008

Yes, I see the bug in the way the categories are displayed at the bottom of each post; Usually, in the header of the following post.

The problem apparently has to do with a plugin I added over the weekend,

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Eric Florack on January 9th, 2008

TLC is hosting a reality show titled Miss America Reality Check. It features the 52 contestants for the Miss America title including GI Jill, Jill Stevens. In an effort to engage viewers and boost ratings, TLC is offering the

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Eric Florack on January 9th, 2008

Interesting goings on over at McGehee’s place.

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Eric Florack on January 9th, 2008

Last couple days it’s been around 65 here during the day. Unusually warm. The new weather front came in this morning, with a thunderstorm packing 75MPH winds. You can imagine that power’s a little iffy, today.

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davidl on January 7th, 2008

Speaker PelosiJohn Hawkins, Right Wing News, has his list of the most annoying liberals of the year, and Mrs. Pelosi is only number four.    John’s list is studded wth quotes and videos, including my favorite Fred video.

Hat Tip:  Memeorandum

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davidl on January 5th, 2008

The Joe Gandelman, Moderate Voice has gone snarky:

It is often been said that former President Bill Clinton is Senator Hillary Clinton’s closest, best and most astute political advisor. If that’s the case and a recent statement he reportedly

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Eric Florack on January 5th, 2008

I get asked fairly frequently of late, what are you guys gonna do if one of the (current) frontrunners wins the Republican nomination? Aren’t you painting yourselves into a corner just a little by targeting the front runners? (Example, calling

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davidl on January 5th, 2008

Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo, is confused by what Mike Huckabee means by his term ‘vertical” politics.   Josh does a real good job documenting Huckabee’s use this baffling term.   In the end, Josh concludes

The more I look at

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