Eric Florack on April 22nd, 2009

VIENNA, Va. -(WTOP)- David Kellermann, acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, committed suicide in his Hunter Mill Estates home Wednesday morning. He hanged himself.

Fairfax County Police spokeswoman Mary Anne Jennings tells WTOP police responded to the Kellermann home

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davidl on April 21st, 2009

Barack ObamaTeam Obaama continues the painfull process of learning that in the real world, things do not operation by Obamaland delusions.    Jake Tapper, ABC Neews, instrucrts the Obama adminatration, in the person of Robert Giibbs, that Eight Billion is biggter

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davidl on April 21st, 2009

Good news for all you Obamatards.   The one is not as ignorant as he pretends to be.   Obama is well aware of  the Tea Parties, and is plenty worried, Michael A. Fletcher and William Branigin, Washington Post

President Obama convened

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2009

Al Gore: Call your office, you twit.

Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.

The report, originating in Australia, suggests that there is a

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Eric Florack on April 14th, 2009

Boortz makes a point I’ve made before about this supposed ‘green stimulus’. It’s a contradiction in terms:

But here are the ugly facts … every “green job” that was funded by the Spanish government caused the loss of 2.2 regular

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davidl on April 2nd, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Life’s mystery solved. We now know why there are so many more male comedians than female.   And so more female dye jobs.

Palinmania strikes Hot Air.  Twelve pictures of Sarah, one story.

Here we go again.  Minnesota Redux?

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Congress which has demonstrated only an ability to destroy an economy, now wants to micromanage your paycheck, Bryon York, Washington Examiner:

It was nearly two weeks ago that the House of Representatives, acting in a near-frenzy after the disclosure

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davidl on April 1st, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
I tend to let Eric to the long and intense. This morning, I make an exception.

 Bit rambled:

The other shoe: I made mention in a Ramble last August of Jay Mariotti leaving his job in the traditional press.

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davidl on April 1st, 2009

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‘Really the government’s “Path to Viability” for the car companies sounds like the rough draft of a five-year industrial plan from the Soviet Union’

Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Magazine.

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davidl on March 29th, 2009

There is one thing you can depend on with all oil salesmen, no matter what your ailment happens to be, the snake oil sales man will claim that his snake oil is just the cure.  Robert B. Reich is a

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Eric Florack on March 28th, 2009

An interesting, and mostly unsurprising report from the New York Times this morning.  Indeed, the only thing surprising about it is that it comes from the New York Times. Here’s some of it:

SAN FRANCISCO — It sounds like such

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davidl on March 27th, 2009

The long and winding road, the Gipper nails Obama, with a wee bit of help from Fred Barnes.   Ronald Reagan (audio), 1964:

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so

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Eric Florack on March 27th, 2009

James Joyner, this morning:

President Obama says he’ll help GM and Chrysler but they’ll have to agree to some “pretty drastic changes.”

“We will provide them some help,” Obama said. “I know that it is not popular to provide help

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Eric Florack on March 26th, 2009

For generations, the Radical Islam has sought to move us back to the 14th century. Now, we see they have an unlikely ally in that effort; the moder enviro-whack-job.

David Owen in The New Yorker, today:

The popular answer—switch to

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davidl on March 26th, 2009

Remember the late Carl Sagan, the theoretical astronomer?    Sagan was probably the only astronomer to be regular quest to the Tonight Show.   For all I know, Sagan was very good theoretical astronomer.  Not my cup of tea.    However Sagan never

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