Eric Florack on August 23rd, 2007

When bill Clinton got trapped into his own words while under oath some time ago, he tried redefining the word “is”.
Ken Blackwell over at Townhall, this morning, Suggests that the democrats may be forced into redefining words again.

The

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Eric Florack on August 23rd, 2007

Interesting… VDH, last night, on The Corner:

The last time I had a run-in with the frenetic Andrew Sullivan was in front of an audience at Columbia University. There while loudly renouncing his former support for invading Iraq, he accused

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davidl on August 23rd, 2007

Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters, has been a great writer.  Sadly his site was horrid.   Now Captain Ed has had his quarters redesigned and the site now looks as great as Ed writes.

While Ed is fixed his problem, Clinton

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Captain Ed notes:

Earlier today, the Italian news service AKI reported that the presumed leader of the largest insurgency in Iraq will start cooperating with the Iraqi government. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, one of the highest-ranking members of Saddam Hussein’s

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Eric Florack on August 22nd, 2007

I had a chance, last evening, to sit down with the CIA’s Office of Inspector General post 9/11 report, here… (PDF)

The Democrats in Congress, forced its release in the intelligence budget for fiscal year 2008.

After reading the report,

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Eric Florack on August 19th, 2007

An excellent article today in The Guardian, of all places.  The Lede:

The writer Andrew Anthony was a committed member of the liberal left – until the attacks of 11 September, 2001. A veteran of CND and Nicaraguan solidarity

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Eric Florack on August 16th, 2007

MIAMI (AP) Jurors reached a verdict Thursday in the trial of Jose Padilla and two co-defendants charged with supporting Al Qaeda and other violent Islamic extremist groups overseas.

The verdict was to be read at 2 p.m. before U.S. District

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Eric Florack on August 16th, 2007

The player that we’ve heard from the least in the Middle East of late, is Syria.  So, I was interested when a BitsBlog reader forwarded a report from Reuters:

DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria is facing a violent campaign by Islamist

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davidl on August 16th, 2007

Mrs. Willam Clinton and Mrs. Yassar ArafatCliff Thier, American Thinker,  outlines the ultimate Rudy Guiliani general election spot.

Narrator: In 1999 Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat’s wife, said, “Our [Palestinian] people have been submitted to the daily and intensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeli

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Eric Florack on August 15th, 2007

Jim Angle on Hume’s show, last night:

We’ve told you how the use of food crops for biofuels has driven up the prices for tortillas in Mexico, breakfast cereal in the U.S. and beer in Germany.

Now Spiegel Online reports

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Eric Florack on August 10th, 2007

Upon being asked, during a phone interview, for a comment on the vindication of the Marines at Haditha that John Murtha slandered, his staff responded:

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We’re still waiting for you to apologize, Mr. Murtha. You already have no credibility. 

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Eric Florack on August 10th, 2007

Boortz raises an interesting point:

Yesterday the federal government proposed yet another version of an airline passenger pre-screening program.  It’s called Secure Flight.  It will let domestic passengers volunteer to provide their date of birth and gender when the

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007

I’ve been seeing this meme for several days now, ever since it started coming out that we were actually winning, militarily, in Iraq.  I guess I’m a little surprised that the comments are coming from this source, but I’ll

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007

McQ does a fair job of following up on this Beauchamp thing:

“They told stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the

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