From The Telegraph:

The reason why even the Guardian‘s George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2009

Guys… the mail server got moved this monring. As a result the distribution lists are gone and so are you old mailboxes as I warned would happen, so I’m sending this in the clear. Please drop a note to my

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2009

After the DNS servers figured out where we were after the change of sever, I started beating up on this new configuration. routersAs it turns out, the Apache hosted system we’re on now is about twice as fast as the

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Eric Florack on November 19th, 2009

Looks like we’re on the new server, and all is well.

Speed of access seems good, too.

Posting can commence at will.

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2009

We’re back.

Some kind of loading issue with with the webserver….PHP issues.

Keep in mind this is a separate issue from the impending move of next week.

We seem to be back at the moment, however.

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davidl on October 23rd, 2009

The Obama White House has gotten down right ugly.   The Obamatards  tried to freeze Fox News our of the White House news coverage pool coverage.   The White House turds offered executive pay czar Kenneth Feinberg to all pool networks except

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Eric Florack on October 22nd, 2009

Ya know, this is getting just a wee bit annoying.

I said this yesterday morning:

So, tell us, oh, vaunted master of the news cycle, what the bleep Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman were doing in the room? And tell

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Eric Florack on October 10th, 2009

I’m afraid I have to take a chunk out of the backside of Rick Moran:

The Baucus bill hasn’t a chance of surviving a conference committee between the House and Senate. But it might have if the GOP worked to

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davidl on September 30th, 2009

Michelle reports getting this e-mail from the Washington Post:

Aspiring pundits across the country have the chance to be “America’s Next Great Pundit” by entering The Washington Post’s political columnist competition.

Starting today The Washington Post opinions section is

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The chickdom reaction to the passing off Senator Oldsmobile has not been all Nina Burleigh.  First, Eric rambled on the reax of Virginia Postrel:

HE WASN”T AS WELL THOUGHT OF BECAUSE HE SURVIVED: That’s Virginia Postrel, talking about Ted

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Eric Florack on August 27th, 2009

These are from a couple years ago.

They’re taken at Ashtabula, OH. on a chilly day. Long time readers will know I’ve always been a bit of a railfan, and that’s a trait I’ve passed on to my boys. (What

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Eric Florack on August 25th, 2009

Canal at ridgeway I snapped this one during a morning walk along the Erie Canal. This is near Elmgrove Road in Greece, facing east, at around 9 in the morning. You can see the amount of bike traffic the trail gets. Lots of

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Eric Florack on August 13th, 2009

Because of some serious schedule problems, I have to give the Nightly Ramble the night off. It’ll return at the usual time, tomorrow night.

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Right Wing News recently emailed more than 260 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send in a list of people they considered to be the most influential on the right. Representatives from the following 40 blogs responded…

All That Is

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Eric Florack on July 28th, 2009

I got a note from the ISP yesterday that explains much of the issue we saw.

On Sunday, I issued a ticket because PHP performance was in the toilet… again.  You’ll recall, this is the issue I got blamed for

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