davidl on December 17th, 2008

Code Pink

Code Pink flier:

Peace Activists Take Shoes to White House in Solidarity with Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist
Call for his release and tribute to Iraqis who have suffered under US occupation

WHAT: Peace activists to gather with shoes in solidarity to

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Eric Florack on December 12th, 2008

The Wall Street Journal:

WASHINGTON — A frantic, last-ditch attempt to forge a relief package for the auto industry collapsed in the U.S. Senate, dealing a giant blow to the immediate hopes of the Big Three.

Senate Majority Leader Harry

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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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davidl on December 10th, 2008

Hat tip:  Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit.

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Eric Florack on December 10th, 2008

I’ve been watching the events and reax from the arrest and indictment of Rod Blagojevich,-(D) (The owner of what is possbly the worst rug I’ve ever seen… and given Sam Donaldson, that’s saying something…) I have begun to wonder just

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davidl on December 9th, 2008

Move over “Cold Cash” Jefferson, yet another democrat is in legal trouble, Pete Williams, NBC News et al:

WASHINGTON – Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2008

Surfing the Washington Times, this morning, I happen across Andrew Breitbart.  I’d heard about the incident he writes about, here, but hadn’t given it much thought, until now.

Anyone who has attended a frat party will have an

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2008

OJ Simpson is sent up for 15 years.

Fox:

O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to at least 15 years in prison for armed robbery and kidnapping in a failed attempt to recover sports memorabilia from two collectibles dealers.
There will

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2008

Lots going on up north.

 

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper won a rare suspension of Parliament on Thursday, managing to avoid being ousted by opposition parties angry over the minority Conservative government’s economic plans and an attempt

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2008
Message from Torranto at “Best of the Web”:
 

Saxby Chambliss“Chambliss’s victory assures the GOP of at least 41 Senate seats. It also lays to rest one of the nastiest McCarthyite smears of recent times: the repeated assertion by Democrats and the

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Eric Florack on December 1st, 2008

I remakred the other day  about “Baby P”

As an update for you…

The BBC dryly reports what little consequence has come out of this horror

Three people have been suspended on full pay from Haringey Council after a “damning”

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Eric Florack on November 30th, 2008

The London Daily Mail’s Ian Gallagher:

The only terrorist captured alive after the Mumbai massacre has given police the first full account of the extraordinary events that led to it – revealing he was ordered to ‘kill until the last

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Eric Florack on November 29th, 2008

To a conservative, anyone who advocates building an ideal society by the use of reason-based theories is a ‘Utopian liberal’ because following Burke and Russel Kirk they do not believe in the unlimited power of reason.
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Some of Clark’s

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2008

At some point, someone’s going to figure out that Islam is always at the center of these kind of attacks.

Can we call radical Islam the real enemy, yet, without being pilloried for it?

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Eric Florack on November 26th, 2008

I’ve said for years tickets are not about making safe the public, they’re about making money for the state. There’s never been more solid proof than what is going on in NYC just now… per WCBS:

You may have

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