davidl on February 10th, 2009

Nadya SulemanNadya Suleman has no husband, no job, no prospects, but she does have fourteen children: 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The California mother of newborn octuplets said on Monday she was counting on God to help provide for her

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davidl on February 6th, 2009

Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe  asks:

Does anyone have a right to tell anyone else how many kids to have? Can only people who can afford them bear children? Do you need a husband to have a baby? These are questions

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davidl on February 1st, 2009

Nadya SulemanThe Bitsblog’s Whore of the Day is Nadya Suleman the single parent living at home who got hersefl knocked with eight babies and wants to whore her experience on Ophrah Winfrey for two million dollars, John Harlow, Sunday Times(UK):

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Eric Florack on January 16th, 2009

I was on the road while most of the events with the Bird-strike plane landing in the Hudson were going on, and by the time I got home, there wasn’t much to write about.  So, I didn’t. Everyone else seemed

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davidl on January 15th, 2009

Daily Mail (UK):

Ten-year-old girls are ready for marriage, according to Saudi Arabia’s most senior cleric.Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh, the country’s grand mufti, told Al Hayat newspaper that those saying ten or 12-year-old girls are too young to marry are

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davidl on January 14th, 2009

Just in case anybody just got off the bus from Mars, here is the old joke:

A lady in on the couch talking to her psychiatrist.   The doctor, takea a puff from his pipe, and asks the lady, “Suppose a

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Eric Florack on January 13th, 2009

Shannon Love over at Chicago Boyz:

California has followed the grim path of the Great Lakes states.

 

As I wrote before, those states where once the industrial dynamo for the entire Earth, yet they destroyed that enormous economic dominance

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davidl on January 12th, 2009

You don’t have to agree with Ann Coulter, but you admire her willingness to take on a hostile interviewer, or in this case, four hostile interviewers.

Hat tip and more:  Gateway Pundit

[The View] jumped on Coulter like a pack

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Eric Florack on January 11th, 2009

A funny post happened over at the Opinion Forum:

Imagine reading this headline: “German People Vote Adolf Hitler Third Most Popular German Historical Figure.”

Can you really imagine that? The international condemnation against such an act would be immediate,

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Eric Florack on January 10th, 2009

Sigh…..

“Then win it back, or do you think that the other side is forever?

{cold stare} It’s close enough, mate, for the purposes of my life, which is all that I’ve ever been interested in.

Perhaps, Billy, that’s

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Eric Florack on January 2nd, 2009

This one has been making the rounds, and I can’t let it pass without opening the editor.BBCT: Q&O and the Jawas 2298296970103726530s425x425q85
The picture strikes me as a demonstration of willful ignorance, for one thing. I mean, isn’t that the usual

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davidl on December 25th, 2008

kwanzaaMichael C. Moynihan, Reason Online,  suggests that Kwanzaa is virtually dead:

In the days leading up the Christmas, one couldn’t help but notice that references to Kwanzaa, the decades-old African-American holiday that captured so many dull minds during the

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Eric Florack on December 11th, 2008

Perhaps the evgents surrounding Blago will be off the spotlight for a few days, with this story.  Fox news:

The skeletal remains of a small child were found Thursday near the home of missing Orlando toddler Caylee Anthony’s family.

There

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2008

Pear Harbor, Battleship Row, the USS Arizona, December 7th, 1941
It was 67 years ago, today.
I wonder at how much we as a people have forgotten.

The battleship in this picture, at the time of the attack, had something on the order of a million gallons of heavy fuel

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2008

Attention  Jim Manzi at The Corner:

Here is Andrew Sullivan responding to Ezra Klein’s paean to socialized health care in the U.K.:

One reason I’m a conservative is the British National Health Service. Until you have lived under socialism,

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