Eric Florack on April 11th, 2009

An interesting thread’s been popping up of late. I’ll let Don Surber describe it:

Glenn Reynolds: “Yeah, it’s as if all that talk about the evil power-grabs of the Bush Administration was just insincere electioneering.”

The left is starting to

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Eric Florack on April 3rd, 2009

This one got me doubled over with laughter.

Martin McPhillips at Q&O just now:

Erb, if you hit Florack with a stun gun, shot him up with a hypnotic drug, threw him down a long flight of concrete stairs

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Eric Florack on March 25th, 2009

Ann Althouse says it well:

“If you read his opinion [in Lawrence v. Texas], he thinks it’s a good idea for two consenting adults who happen to be gay to be locked up because he is so disapproving of

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Eric Florack on March 17th, 2009

With a nod to WPGB’s Jim Quinn, I want to call to your attention, this monring to an article that appeared in National Review, yesterday, by  Hans A. von Spakovsky, called A Leadership of Cowards?”

Here’s a bit

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Eric Florack on March 16th, 2009

John Hawkins over at Right Wing News,  has the result of a poll he’s been taking, to determine the 50 most popular right of center websites. Of course, BitsBlog isn’t on it.  (mumble) I do notice that Pajamas Media where

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Right Wing News polled 55 conservative bloggers on a number of topics including Rush Limbaugh, Michael Steele, Obama, 2012 Presidential candidates. You can see the results here.

First time for John’s new system, which was a breeze to run,

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Eric Florack on March 4th, 2009

Me to John Hawkins, just now:

 

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Magnus Anderson makes an excellent point.

Maybe we are challenged both by a general trend of “modern” relativistic thinking, which we havn’t been anaware as we should as well as a slippery slope

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Eric Florack on March 3rd, 2009

Over at Pajamas Media, this morning,  I examine the apparent rift between Republican grassroots and the Republican elite at CPAC.

One such respondent placed his objections within the framework of the Republican Party being the middle-class party and therefore

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Eric Florack on March 1st, 2009

While wading through the Jawa Hut, I noted the following.
I’ll sign this in a heartbeat.

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“We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid

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Eric Florack on February 21st, 2009

Generally speaking I have no reluctance to rip Steve Benen a new orifice on any subject.  It is usually fairly easy to do, given the target he presents.   On this occasion, I do have to give him a little bit

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Eric Florack on February 20th, 2009

I got a note from John Hawkins in my feedback last night.  Apparently, John is managed to score an interview with professor Walter Williams.  Longtime readers will know that I have an ocean of respect for the professor .

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Eric Florack on January 31st, 2009

Yes, to answer a few E-mails, I’ve seen the back and forth at Pajamas Media.

As best I can gather it, (And frankly, what I’ve gotten is online… I’ve not managed to get ahold of anyone yet to confirm this)

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Eric Florack on January 17th, 2009

Medal of Valor Today Bruce over at Q&O tells the story of  CPL Moses Cardenas.

It’s worth the read.

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Eric Florack on January 11th, 2009

A funny post happened over at the Opinion Forum:

Imagine reading this headline: “German People Vote Adolf Hitler Third Most Popular German Historical Figure.”

Can you really imagine that? The international condemnation against such an act would be immediate,

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Eric Florack on January 3rd, 2009

Good lord, Billy;

I may be speaking out of turn here, and I may be a little under informed about the depth of that conversation over there, but I’m going to sound off anyway.

I didn’t say anything over there,

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