davidl on June 11th, 2008

Edward Lehner can take a long one way hike, and never come back.  I think Arkansas would be a good choice, Samuel Maull, Associated Press

NEW YORK – A judge has ordered New York’s governor, Senate and Assembly to raise

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Eric Florack on June 11th, 2008

I think you can pretty much figure in that there is going to be an awful lot of discussion between now and November as regards government run health care and the benefits thereof. I did notice today that there was

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Eric Florack on June 10th, 2008

I’ve posted this before, but I think it bears revisiting… here’s how to raise fuel prices should you want to do it…

* Create shortages in the oil markets by ensuring domestic oil supplies can never be used. This will

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Eric Florack on June 7th, 2008

I said yesterday morning:

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) suggested that oil companies may be manipulating energy markets as Enron did in 2001, and that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Federal Trade Commission needed to more aggressively regulate all

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Eric Florack on June 6th, 2008

You didn’t hear about this yesterday, I’m willing to bet. The Senate Commerce Committee met on Tuesday, trying to figure out what to do about the sharp increase in prices on oil. I mentioned the other day that George Soros

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Eric Florack on June 5th, 2008

From the New York Post today:

Of course, with his wealth and power, Kennedy would get good treatment anywhere. But the same care is available to every American.

Not so – if we make the health “reforms” called for

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Eric Florack on May 22nd, 2008

Got lots of mail last night on my “How to raise fuel prices” post of yesterday. Actually, that’s why my posting was a little lighter than usual, this morning… I was pouring over the mail. Some of it was pointing

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Eric Florack on May 2nd, 2008

If you were here yesterday you’ll recall I spoke about the UN and a food shortage, and their response to it. In short, they begged for money and formed a comittee.

Well, now via Fox news, we’re hearing that

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Eric Florack on March 14th, 2008

WASHINGTON – FOX- The Senate rejected calls from both parties’ presidential candidates to take an election-year break from pork-barrel spending as a Democratic-run Congress passed budget plans that would torpedo hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts won by

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Eric Florack on March 13th, 2008

Passed along by a reader. I’m sure this one’s been making the rounds. I’m equally sure the leftsts will claim it’s been ‘debunked’, but it hasn’t. This stuff is going to come up, no matter who the Democrats nominate. Forewarned

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Eric Florack on March 9th, 2008

Jeff Jacoby:

WHAT DO ethanol and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Each is a good reminder of that most powerful of unwritten decrees, the Law of Unintended Consequences – and of the all-too-frequent tendency of solutions imposed by

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2008

From the St Pete Times:

HILLSBOROUGH — The spokesman for the Department of Children and Families was arrested on child pornography charges Friday night, accused of soliciting two teen-agers to perform sex acts which he used to make child pornography.

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Eric Florack on January 24th, 2008

And so why would Soros be trying to move us toward Democrats here in the US?

Jawa has the answer:

During an interview with the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, billionaire leftist George Soros weighed in

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Fersboo on January 16th, 2008

Heard this on the drive into the office this morning:

630AM-WMAL

Man Wearing Dress Tests Transgender Law(Gaithersburg, MD) — A new law protecting transgendered people in Montgomery County doesn’t go into effect for more than a month, but the

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