Eric Florack on July 30th, 2008

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has changed his story and admits that FOX News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly never received talking points from the White House.

On Friday, McClellan said on MSNBC that FOX News commentators would receive White

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Eric Florack on July 30th, 2008

Not sure what to make of thisreport from Fox News:

An aide to Sen. Jim Webb was found dead from a gunshot wound Tuesday morning, the Virginia Democrat’s office confirmed to FOX News on Wednesday.

Frederick Wayne Hutchins Jr., 26,

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davidl on July 29th, 2008

The House of Representative is set to pass this tripe:

Resolved, That the House of Representatives–

(1) acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow;

(2) apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people

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  • A second place at the OTB Sheep Off caption contest.
  • So, the Democrats are almost to a man, includng Obama, claiming that the Surge didn’t work. So why, then, is Obama proposing another surge, this time in Afghanistan?

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Eric Florack on July 29th, 2008

WASHINGTON — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens allegedly made false statements to cover up gifts given to him by an oil contractor seeking his help on Capitol Hill, according to a seven-count federal indictment unveiled Tuesday.

Stevens, 84, is the longest-serving

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Eric Florack on July 29th, 2008

So, now, it starts. You knew it hadda happen. Once we saw this business in Knoxville, you just knew the left was going to attach itself to the happening like a vampire bat. All the liberal hotbuttons are there

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Eric Florack on July 28th, 2008
  • Yeah, I was out all weekend. So, we made the trip over the weekend, to Fair Haven State Park, which is one of the best in the state. There’s a problem, though with the state Reservation system for their campgrounds;

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Eric Florack on July 28th, 2008

The Chicago Tribune:

BOSTON – Syndicated columnist and former “Crossfire” host Robert Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is suspending his journalistic work.

The story doesn’t say if there’s a malignancy, there.

I hate to say this

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Eric Florack on July 28th, 2008

I’m going to break my “No AP feed” rule to make a point, here.

 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) –A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage against an Islamic civil rights group

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davidl on July 28th, 2008

snark2.jpgPhil, ClueBatting Cage, has the Bumper Snicker of the Day::

I see Obama’s campaign plane has been outfitted with a new logo…

It, and all the adulation, lead me to come up with this one

Hat tip:  Morgan Freeberg,

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Eric Florack on July 28th, 2008

Timing is everything. Bruce posts a Project Hero post, and I’m out of town.

Oh, well.

 

This week, Bruce digs into the story of an attack in Afghanistan a few weeks ago, where 9 soldiers got killed. The story here,

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Eric Florack on July 28th, 2008

One of the biggist liabilities that Barack Obama has, is the people who are already going to vote for him.  A case in point shows up in the Rocky Mountain News this morning, in an article by Daniel J. Chacon:

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(From The Conservative Reader)

Well, it took almost 3 months, but Congress finally passed the bill Saturday, on older version of which was  passed by the House in May, after some considerable back and forth between the Senate

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davidl on July 27th, 2008

 

Barack Obama dopeJohn R. Bolton, in the Los Angeles Times:

First, urging greater U.S.-European cooperation, Obama said, “The burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together.” Having earlier proclaimed himself “a fellow citizen of the world” with his German hosts,

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davidl on July 27th, 2008

Dirty Harry Reid, and his eco-freak friends, don’t like oil and they don’t like us producing our own oil.   Dirty Harry would have us conserve out way out of current mess.  James Hamilton, Econobrowser, has posted a  long, detailed

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