Eric Florack on October 7th, 2008

Let me talk about “justice” for a moment. Is there any question around here but that this is, at root, an ethical concept? It’s about values and their disposition. Political questions (what specific acts to take in a social context

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A little noted…. at least in the Dinosaur media… event took place on Saturday. The local Fox channel in LA noted it as a part of this article:

Palin was introduced by Shelly Mandell, president of the Los Angeles

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Eric Florack on October 6th, 2008

Nice bit over the weekend from Whizban’s Kim Preistap:

“America, this is what a feminist looks like”

Who said that about Sarah Palin? Would you believe the president of LA’s National Organization for Women, Shelly Mandel? Amazing! This is quite

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Eric Florack on October 4th, 2008

But it’s not like the GOP, John McCain, in particular, wasn’t trying to do the people’s business. They were stonewalled by Democrats.

Again….

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Eric Florack on October 4th, 2008

Any questions?

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Eric Florack on October 1st, 2008

Me at OTB just now:

These same people who are claiming the end of the world due to global warming…. that is to say, the left… these are interestingly, the very same who we trusted with the compartively simple

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The WSJ, this morning:

Top U.S. policy makers emerged from hours of tense negotiations with a clear message just after midnight Sunday morning: A deal to bailout U.S. financial markets has been agreed on and all that remains to be

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Eric Florack on September 25th, 2008

David Denning in the Edmund Sun,from Oklahomo, this morning:

What a contrast there is between Franklin and Barack Obama. Obama is a Harvard lawyer who is a mile wide and an inch deep. He is only the latest in

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Eric Florack on September 19th, 2008

I’ve often wondered how Catholics could elect Democrats in the last 40 years or so. That would seem to have been rendered a moot point this cycle, as Gerald Warner observes:

Remember, you read it here first: on September 11

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2008

08:37am— 

I’d come into work just like any other morning.

Where I was working at the time is closed, now, and so is the department that I was working for. But I can see he layout of the place in

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2008

I awoke this morning to a disturbing note passed along by a reader, pointing me to this from Rasmussen:

Thirty-two percent (32%) of likely voters say the Supreme Court is doing a good or excellent job. The latest Rasmussen Reports

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2008

Reposted from 9/13/01

It is recorded in our history books that when he looked down at the ship full of smiling, victorious faces… faces of his flyers, just having returned from Pearl Harbor, Japanese fleet Admiral Yamamoto was quiet, pensive,

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Eric Florack on September 9th, 2008

By way of The Conservative Grapevine comes an article in the Examiner, wherein we find:

 University of Minnesota staff were key coordinators of the recent violent protests at the Republican National Convention (RNC). The university employees are also

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Eric Florack on September 6th, 2008

Fox News:

John McCain’s campaign prepared to accuse Democrats on Saturday of leaving behind 12,000 miniature American flags after Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday in Denver.

Boy Scouts have arrived with 84 trash bags full of bundles of

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Bruce at Q&O dives into the swamp known as Gustav in relation to the RNC. It’s a worthy article, but one point of disagreement:

Frankly, keeping Bush out of the convention limelight is a positive. How to do that without

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