Eric Florack on December 7th, 2006

Hume:

A longtime adviser to Jimmy Carter has resigned his position as a Carter Center fellow over the former president’s new book. Emory University professor Kenneth Stein wrote in a letter to Mr. Carter that the title of the book

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McQ this morning makes a point that I’ve heard before and dismissed… and I’m about to dismiss it again. He makes his point by attempting to draw a parallel between the red scare of the nineteen fifties and what he

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davidl on November 30th, 2006

For various reason all the recommendations of the Nine-Eleven Commission have yet to implemented.  For one, nobody ever elected the commission and they remain accountable to nobody.  Further their elephant size egos dwarf their moles size brains

Yet for reasons

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Eric Florack on November 30th, 2006

So, now we see the results of the Iraq study commission:

WASHINGTON —AP– A leader of a bipartisan commission on U.S. options in Iraq said the group has agreed on a set of recommendations due next week, and published reports

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Eric Florack on November 29th, 2006

Hoystory looks at this bit with NBC unilaterally deciding Iraq is in a Civil war, and asks a question I don’t think I’ve seen elsewhere:

The closest comparison to Iraq that I can think of — and it was less

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Eric Florack on November 29th, 2006

Captain Ed….

Newt Gingrich has tried to position himself as the premiere conservative candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential primaries, a mission made easier by the list of front-runners already in the race. However, he may have taken a stumble

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WASHINGTON — Fox- American paper money represents an unfair impediment to the blind, and the Treasury Department must come up with new U.S. currency to help the visually impaired use cash, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge James

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Alcee Hastings Mrs. Pelosi has, apparently, come to her senses. Michele Malkin reports that Representative Alcee Hastings is out of consideration for the chair of the House Intellgence Committee.  I commend Mrs. Pelosi for the move.  The nation will be better

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davidl on November 27th, 2006

When John Kerry disparged the intelligence of our American Fighting Men, it was said that Kerry botched a joke.  Yet was it really a botched joke or just the standard democrat position?.  The incoming chairman of the House Ways and

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Eric Florack on November 26th, 2006

A few clips of Fran, yesterday, along with my comments;

Your Curmudgeon is an ardent hawk. He believes passionately that Islam must be whipped back into its Arabian kennel and quarantined there, no matter what that undertaking might do to

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Just yesterday, I commented on this brand new Israeli initiative for peace.

First of all this is a game we’ve played so many times, it’s taking on the status of Charlie Brown and the football. The game always ends

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2006

JERUSALEM Nov 25, 2006 (AP)— Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire Saturday to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state a major

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2006

So says Mindanao.com:

It happened today, the Philippine Armed Forces (AFP) got a huge catch in the War on Terror! Remember the group of hostages that was taken by the Abu Sayyaf in June of 2001? That’s the same group

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