Eric Florack on April 15th, 2008

Oh, I can’t wait for the reaction on this one... Fox news:

Ruggedly handsome actor Jason Beghe was best man at the wedding of “X Files” star David Duchovny (his childhood pal) and actress Tea Leoni. In 1998,

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Eric Florack on April 14th, 2008

John Hawkins has put together a great list of quotes that to my mind personifies conservatism. A couple examples:

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the

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Eric Florack on April 14th, 2008

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources close to the matter said on Monday.

 

Carter angered the

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Eric Florack on April 11th, 2008

The much talked about “oil for food’ program had it’s share of problems. Corruption, mostly. Not to be wondered at, give we’re dealing with the UN there. But apparently, trying to exchange food for oil isn’t much better, as James

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Eric Florack on April 8th, 2008

OK, I finally hit the end of my fuse with this stuff, when yesterday, a group of leftists decided to put a sign up on the Golden Gate bridge:

“One world, one dream; Free Tibet.”

Look, I sympathize with the

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President George W. Bush is a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with baseball, Saddam Hussein and a conflicted relationship with his dad. Or at least that’s how he’s portrayed in the script for Oliver Stone’s upcoming feature “W.”But how accurate is

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Eric Florack on April 6th, 2008

Drezner:

Another day, another online article. The topic of my latest Newsweek column is whether the West — i.e., American and Europe — can still act as the global policy leader. I’m not optimistic: America and Europe face political, economic

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Eric Florack on April 3rd, 2008

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) – Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands, which remain in British hands after the 1982 war between the two countries, is “inalienable,” President Cristina Kirchner said Wednesday.

The sovereign claim to the Malvinas Islands is inalienable,” she

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Hume, last night:

The United Nations Human Rights Council was supposed to be better than the old Human Rights Commission, which became famous for bias and hypocrisy. Now the same charge is being leveled at the new body

The council

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Eric Florack on March 22nd, 2008

Steven Taylor this morning on what he calls the Perils of the IPhone:

“It’s turned me from a really annoying know-it-all into an incredibly annoying know-it-all, with the Internet to back me up,” said Sadum, a technology writer in Denver.

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Eric Florack on March 20th, 2008

I’m hearing local congresscritter Tom Reynolds won’t be running again, this fall. He’s supposed to announce around noon, today, according to Buffalo radio.

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Eric Florack on March 18th, 2008

A short while ago, I raised the issue with Al Gore getting hoisted on his own petard, by those wanting to bring him into court in a lawsuit over the fraud that  is the global warming scare. I suggested in

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Eric Florack on March 17th, 2008

Mike Allen over to The Politico reports:

CHICAGO – The church attended by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) fought back Sunday against mounting criticism of its pastor, accusing the media of character assassination and “crucifixion.”

See, that’s how it works with

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Eric Florack on March 17th, 2008

Interesting note from Baton Rouge by way of NOLA.COM

BATON ROUGE — The state Legislature on Friday wrapped up its second special session during the 2-month-old administration of Gov. Bobby Jindal by completing a full sweep of the governor’s proposed

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Eric Florack on March 16th, 2008

(With apologies to “Sweetness and Light”, I couldn’t resist)

Brad Freidman writes at BradBlog:

“Alegre”, a longtime Daily Kos diarist, has called for a writers strike at the world’s largest supposedly-Progressive blog site, due to what she says has

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