Eric Florack on December 15th, 2008

Larrey  Anderson at The American Thinker  has an excellent piece up today. Here’s a taste:

Even atheists are religious. They have a dogma (God does not exist) and they have a vast number of rituals. (Most of their rituals involve

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Eric Florack on August 19th, 2008

Bruce McQuain at Q&O:

Bill Donahue of the “Catholic League” is demanding that certain “credentialed blogs” covering the Democratic Convention be cut from the list for being “offensive” to Catholics.

“The list of credentialed blogs include radical sites like The

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davidl on August 8th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleNew York Slimes:

Now that was a real nail-biter. The court designed by the White House and its Congressional enablers to guarantee convictions of high-profile detainees in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba – using evidence obtained by torture and secret evidence

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Eric Florack on August 3rd, 2008

Back along about the end of 2006, during a  Christmas break, I wrote an extended piece about Islam and some of the problems in the world with relation to it. I’ll post it here, because I think it’;s ideas are

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davidl on June 14th, 2008

Boy Scout Oath:

On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake,

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davidl on June 13th, 2008

 Mark Finkelstein, Newsbusters:

DICK DURBIN: Well, I know Michelle, she’s been my friend, a friend of my wife, for many, many years. She can take it. She can handle herself. She’s a very accomplished person. But I will tell

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Eric Florack on June 10th, 2008

AJ Strata has been watching with some interest the demise of al-Qaeda.  Today, he remarks:

It is alarming even to me how drastically al-Qaeda’s future as changed recently.  After 9-11 they were the future hope of Islam after they

Continue reading about Al-Qaeda is on the Ropes. Keeping Them There is the Issue.

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 June 2nd, 2008

The Telepgraph is reporting:

A police community support officer ordered two Christian preachers to stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham.

The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a “hate crime” and

Continue reading about That Slope Just Got a Little More Slippery

Eric Florack on May 7th, 2008

Gerson at the WaPo:

There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based, than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a “war on science.”

According to Hillary Clinton, the Bush administration has declared “open season on

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davidl on April 29th, 2008

Barack \Karl Rove’s advice to BO, via Jeralyn, Talk Left:

  • When you’re on the defense, as with Rev. Wright, choose one explanation and stick to it.

BO circa March 18, via Mark Silva, Swamp:

“I can no more disown

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davidl on April 24th, 2008

Speaker PelosiDid Mrs. Pelosi discover some long lost book of the Bible and is she simply delusional?   According Mrs. Pelosi the Bible calls for us to:

 “To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore

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davidl on April 23rd, 2008

The Associated  Press is reporting:

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – An Amsterdam publishing house said Wednesday it will release a biography of Jesus written by filmmaker Paul Verhoeven.

Verhoeven is best known as the director of blockbuster films including Basic Instinct and

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Eric Florack on April 8th, 2008

Strike up the band and let’s hear a cheer… the good guys won:

Radio Netherlands:

The Hague – A judge has ruled in a case against MP Geert Wilders brought by the Dutch Islamic Federation that Mr Wilders is not

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Eric Florack on March 18th, 2008

I’ve not turned out a single issue ramble in some months, now, Tonight seems the time.

I’ll say this at the outset; I have been predisposed to not trust what Obama has to say on much of anything in general,

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