Eric Florack on June 19th, 2008

The left side of the ‘shepere is all over the story of Larry Sinclair being arrested following his apearence at the National Press Club, yesterday. Blogger News Network says:

Larry Sinclair-the gay man who’s accused Senator Barack Obama of sharing

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So, President Bush has now joined John McCain’s call to eliminate the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. He’s even asked Congress to do so. This strikes me as a smart move, both in the political world, and the

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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2008

From the LA Times this morning:

In 2006, John F. Kerry explained the Senate’s 77-23 passage of the Iraq war resolution this way: “We were misled. We were given evidence that was not true.” On the campaign trail, Hillary Rodham

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From the Daily Mail:

George Orwell once wrote that politics was closely related to social identity. ‘One sometimes gets the impression,’ he wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier, ‘that the mere words socialism and communism draw towards them with

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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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An interesting story yesterday, on the AP wires:

 

Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.

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Eric Florack on June 5th, 2008

Here’s a headline you won’t see much of, today:

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.  —AP- A military jury acquitted a Marine intelligence officer Wednesday of charges that he tried to help cover up the killings of 24 Iraqis.

Cheers erupted as the

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  • Did you see this about Pfleger? Michelle Malkin points this up, today:

    Say it with me: Boo-freaking-hoo. Via the Chicago Sun-Times’ Cathleen Falsani:

    Pfleger has apologized for “the words that I chose” and for “my dramatization.” Pfleger told me he

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Hume last night:

Some recent surveys suggest a striking gap between liberals and conservatives on the issue of honesty. Polling by an organization called The World Values Survey posed the question, “Is it OK to cheat on your taxes?”

Fifty-seven

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Something from Political Punch catches my eye this morning:

In another excerpt from Rev. Michael Pfleger’s sermon last Sunday, May 25, from the pulpit of Sen. Barack Obama’s now former church, Trinity United Church of Christ on the South side

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Eric Florack on May 31st, 2008

Apparently, we will never know just how lucky we are that John Kerry didn’t make it to the White House. The Hill:

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) believes that on September 11 “we were basically at peace.”

Asked to clarify his

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I guess I shoudl have figured on this. Much is explained. It’s just that Stop the ACLU got to it first:

I neglected to mention the traitor McClellan’s Bush bashing book cuz I had nothing to say that so many

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Eric Florack on May 28th, 2008

Hume, last night:

The group that spearheaded the successful effort to have polar bears listed as a threatened species has a blueprint for further action that could create ripples throughout the U.S. economy.

The Arizona Daily Star reports the

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Eric Florack on May 28th, 2008

JACKSON, Miss. -AP- An Amtrak passenger train collided with a garbage truck Tuesday on a rural stretch of central Mississippi track, injuring at least seven people, authorities said.Three of those taken to hospitals were Amtrak employees who suffered non-life-threatening injuries,

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Eric Florack on May 28th, 2008

Ramesh Ponnuru points out yesterday that in a Libertarian fantasy world the Cato institute’s platform would win in a landslide. I would hasten to add that the only reason that the whole thing is a fantasy is because nobody’s bothered

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