Eric Florack on July 12th, 2009

Dahlia Lithwick at Slate seems among the first to pile onto Ricci, doing some local newspaper investigation.

According to local newspapers, Ricci filed his first lawsuit against the city of New Haven in 1995, at the ripe old age

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davidl on July 10th, 2009

A single picture can be worth more than a NGO  produced 2:47 video.  First the video:

Hat tip video:  News Junkie

Now for the picture:

Barack Obama the Gaze

Hat tip photo:   Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom.

Suffice to say, the chicklette is part

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Eric Florack on July 9th, 2009

I’m more than a little annoyed at what I find in the LA Times Op-Ed section this morning.

The two cases were the latest skirmishes in the broader conservative war to reframe the way Americans view the issue of race.

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davidl on July 9th, 2009

The news is not all Wacko Jacko, all the time, from Karen Araize, NBC Philadelphia:

More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the

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From The Canadian Press:

HAMILTON— A critically-ill premature-born baby from Hamilton is all alone in a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital after she was turned away for treatment at local facility and transferred across the border without her parents, who don’t have

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davidl on June 26th, 2009

More from the moral sink hole known as New York State, from Rob Stien, Washington Post:

New York has become the first state to allow taxpayer-funded researchers to pay women for giving their eggs for embryonic stem cell research,

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davidl on June 25th, 2009

The ruling liberal elites don’t mind messing with your healhcare,, because they intend to exempt themsleves for the restriction they intend to impose on you and your familly,    from Jake Tapper, ABC News:

Devinsky asked the president pointedly if

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davidl on June 19th, 2009

It may be a mangling of Newt Gingrich and Walter E. Williams, but there is a sure fire way to get rid of stupid laws, make them universally appliicable   That is the people who enact the laws have to live

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Eric Florack on June 19th, 2009

As a result of having the ability to carry several hundred books in my ‘smart phone”… a Palm Treo, I now find myself catching up with a number of the classics, mostly because they were the easiest to obtain in

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davidl on June 18th, 2009

The National Bureau of Economic Research  has released a study purporting to show that women’s happiness has declined since the ‘Seventies, or about since when Riic came off the market.  Color me skeptical that happiness is actually a  measurable metric   

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davidl on June 11th, 2009

A celebutard and her money are soon parted.   What some girls will do to avoid becoming part of Letterman’s monologue.  TMZ is reporting with baited breath:

Chastity Bono — Becoming a Man

Chastity Bono, civil rights advocate, journalist, author and

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davidl on June 10th, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, notes:

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, the White House would be taken over by “Christianists.” And they were right! “Barack Obama invokes Jesus more than George W. Bush did.”

When you

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davidl on June 7th, 2009

2007-09-10-chrismatthewstiereduxand, he  ought to consider changing it.    Allah Pundit, Hot Air, reports Chris Matthews thinks is “paranoid” to think the Obamatards are control freaksg, who wnat to control every aspect of your peraonal liffe.     On the other

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davidl on June 6th, 2009

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.    I am going to keep this calm because I respect the calm, rational, historically informed, and politically ascute response of the Secure Arkanas rally, from Keep Arkansas Legal:

Secure

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2009

There’s much to discuss in terms of implication, as regards the shooting of abortionist George Tiller, none of them particularly complimentary to those claiming to take up Tiller’s side.

Even from the outset, my instinct was that the reaction to

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