Eric Florack on December 5th, 2009

From Politiken.dk this morning:

As the world prepares to converge on Copenhagen for the COP15 Climate Summit, Denmark’s Speaker of Parliament has expressed serious doubts as to the way in which the climate debate has developed.
“The problem is that

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2009

Der Spiegel is reporting:

Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2009

Some time ago, David blogged about Nadya Suleman:

I suppose after delivering fourteen children, posing for Christie Hefner is out of the question.   Suleman is going  have busy changing nappies and will be hard pressed to pay for a dipper

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Eric Florack on November 24th, 2009

George Monbiot, who is likely the biggest global warming propagandist in the press today, looks at the Global Warming emails that have been the topic of so much discussion lately and admits:

It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2009

From  the NewsReal Blog:

Toymaker Mattel Inc. has given its best-selling Barbie doll a makeover in honor of her 50th anniversary.

Meet Burkha Barbie, garbed in traditional Islamic Dress. On sale now.

I have to say that it

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2009

Byron York raises an interesting point:

The extraordinary thing about the dramatic events surrounding the health care bill in the Senate is that there was any drama at all. Lawmakers were simply voting to begin debate on the Democratic version

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2009

The record of the Democrats since attaining office has not been good, at least from the perspective of the average American. Let’s look at their key agenda points:

  • Global Warming, as such has long been seen as a lie. That

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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 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 6th, 2009

There are lots of conflicting reports on the number of victims of  Nidal Malik Hasan and his bloody ramage at Ft Hood yesterday.  the most reliable reports that I’ve found suggest that there’s 13 dead as of this morning

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davidl on November 1st, 2009

The Fox News Sunday interview with Rush Limbaugh.

Presidential advisor David Axelrod fires back, Polttico:

“It is a surreal day when you are getting lectures on humility by Rush Limbaugh,” Axelrod said on CBS’s “Face The Nation.” “He

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Eric Florack on October 27th, 2009

Over at Reason this morning,  Peter Suderman suggests something(Link repaired….Editor) … that I”ve been slowly coming around to, myself. He looks at the on again / off again agreement between the White House and the Democrats in Congress,

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Eric Florack on October 25th, 2009

A little addendum to my comments about the “State of Emergency” declared by the President yesterday. Note, please the passage here,l in yet another AP story:

Administration officials said the declaration was a pre-emptive move designed to make decisions easier

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By way of a link from Lori Bird via Facebook, I note a posting on  theBirdflupandemic.com:

The package insert for the Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine manufactured by Novartis has been leaked on the Internet. According to that

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