Eric Florack on November 15th, 2008

McQ over at Q&O points up a source of power we haven’t been using as much as we should; Tidal forces.

With 12,383 miles of US coastline, this seems like a technology which would make sense for both development and

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Eric Florack on November 14th, 2008

That’s what Ben Smith is reporting, this morning:

Andrea Mitchell reported this evening that Obama is considering Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, something that’s been buzzed about as a possibility for a few days.

I haven’t been able to

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2008

Billy Beck:

“Great” Britain

It killed Baby P. The actual murder was bought and paid for out of state benevolence.

That kid was only seventeen months old, and the people ostensibly charged with responsibility for looking out for him

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2008

Reynolds:

CHRIS DODD INTERVIEW, CENSORED:

 

Scott hosted a weekday 5 to 7 p.m. drive-time talk show until Oct. 29. That was the day he taped a combative interview with U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut (pictured with Mutual Housing chief

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You’re going to hear quite a bit from the left over ‘the death of conservatism’ over the next few weeks. But they’ve got it wrong. I say, what we’ve got is the death of compromised conservatism as espoused by George

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2008

The Wall Street Journal states the bloody obvious:

According to recent Gallup polls, the president’s average approval rating is below 30% — down from his 90% approval in the wake of 9/11. Mr. Bush has endured relentless attacks from

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davidl on November 3rd, 2008

The Associated Press:

MADERA, Calif. – Authorities on Monday said they have positively identified two large bones found a half mile from the crash site of Steve Fossett’s plane in California’s Sierra Nevada as the adventurer’s remains.

Rest in

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2008

Word from the Boston Pheonix, this morning:

This morning, Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested on charges of attempted extortion and wire fraud after an 18-month investigation by the FBI. The FBI alleges that Wilkerson took bribes from

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Eric Florack on October 27th, 2008

Joe the Plumber. You remember the story. Obama rolls up to his house one day. Joe plucks up his courage and asks a question of Barack Obama, the subject of which Mr. Obama would apparently rather not discuss. Result? 

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Ya know, I can’t help thinking on Billy Beck as I read Mark Levin this morning:

I’ve been thinking this for a while so I might as well air it here. I honestly never thought we’d see such a thing

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Eric Florack on October 16th, 2008

Here’s a transcript of last night’s debate.

If I get time, there’s a number of points I’d like to break out of it.  But for now, a quick overview of who won and who lost.

If there’s one thing that

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Eric Florack on October 15th, 2008

Bruce notes John Murtha with an interesting statement:

U.S. Rep. John Murtha says his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama’s victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points.

The 17-term Democratic congressman

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Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… Bit’s Blog’s Nightly Ramble

  • Tonight is the final debate between BO and McCain.  The obvious lean is for some serious fireworks to occur, but I wonder if

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Eric Florack on October 14th, 2008

As longtime readers will know well, I have never been impressed with Paul Krugman, except in the extreme negative. As an example a comment from a few months ago:

I‘ll open this by saying that by rights, and in

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A little noted…. at least in the Dinosaur media… event took place on Saturday. The local Fox channel in LA noted it as a part of this article:

Palin was introduced by Shelly Mandell, president of the Los Angeles

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