As Eric rambled:

AL GORE… RED COURTESY PHONE PLEASE… I’ve mentioned a couple of times over the years that if we ever managed to get into some of the internal documents, and the real behind the scenes discussions of

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2009

Ben Smith says at Politico:

President Obama’s job approval numbers will dip below 50% for the first time today in Gallup’s daily tracking poll, according to a Gallup official.

“Gallup Daily tracking results just in. Obama will be below 50%

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2009

An outright brilliant column from Doctor Charles Krauthammer this morning:

For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and

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Eric Florack on November 19th, 2009

TMZ is reporting:

Senator John Kerry‘s daughter, Alexandra Forbes Kerry, was arrested early this morning on suspicion of DUI … law enforcement sources tell TMZ.

It went down in Hollywood at 12:40 AM. Alexandra, a 36-year-old film producer

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davidl on November 19th, 2009

I had this one up earlier, but thing it got posted to the old server, and is lost forever in cyber never land.   Oh well. Don’t mistake me for an Lindsey Graham fan.    However Graham makes Attorney General Eric Holder

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davidl on November 17th, 2009

I do some hiking and more than a wit bit of trail maintenance.   Needless to say,  I have opinions on both.   The only publicly funded and maintained trails in decent repair are those ADA compliant monstrosities that got funded with

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davidl on November 16th, 2009

Good news, the turd Gregory Craig has been dismissed as White House counsel, from a clearly heart broken  Steve Clemons, Blogs & Stories:

Gregory Craig, White House counsel to President Obama and national security advisor to Obama during the

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Eric Florack on November 15th, 2009

From Lori Montgomery at the Washintgton Post:

A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system — would sharply

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davidl on November 15th, 2009

Sam Youngman, Hill:

Even as he travels through Asia, President Barack Obama said Saturday that he has ordered a full investigation of what happened last week at Fort Hood, Texas, and he promises accountability for mistakes made that allowed

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davidl on November 14th, 2009

So why did the Associated Press Fact Checker cross the street?   Answer: We don’t know.   No AP “Fact Checker” is smart enough to find a street, much less cross itFrom a purported AP Fact Check of Sarah Palin’s book,

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davidl on November 14th, 2009

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Obama Bows to Royalty, But Won’t Put His Hand On His Heart for the National Anthem

Ace.

And Ace backs op his point with video:

Good point Ace, but there is a name for putting your hand over your heart. 

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Eric Florack on November 14th, 2009

With the ruling, yesterday, from Atty General Eric Holder that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be tried in New York City, in a civilian court, Americans should begin to notice a pattern from the Obama administration of running in exactly the

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davidl on November 12th, 2009

Radicial Islam has been waging war on the United State at least since 1993.

Yet the dim one, b/k/a President Barack Obama continues to find attacks against in and against our country to be “incomprehensible.”    Claudia  Rosett, Forbes, try

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davidl on November 12th, 2009

The purpose of an Army has been described as kill people and break things.   As such people who excel at leading units dedicated to such tasks, killing people and breaking things, are not noted for nuance.   Case in point,  William

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2009

There’s a  number of people last night heaping praise on Obama’s speech at Ft Hood yesterday.  Predictably,  Marc Armbinder is one of them:

Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they’ll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was

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