• http://bitsblog.theconservativereader.com/files/2006/12/bnr.jpgBilly

    “I’ve always believed that he’s the easier candidate to beat in the Fall.”

    (McPhillips: “Are The Clintons Over?”)

    I think his general position is correct: these people won’t be “over” until we see their boxes getting dropped into the

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davidl on February 20th, 2008

Mrs. Clinton’s last stand, via Byron York, National Review:

On a conference call, top strategist Mark Penn just told reporters that in the next two weeks Hillary Clinton will go after Barack Obama on the issue of who is

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davidl on February 18th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Beef Recall: 

LOS ANGELES – (AP)-The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday recalled 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a Southern California slaughterhouse that is being investigated for mistreating cattle.

Danish Riots:

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Bands

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Eric Florack on February 14th, 2008

Joyner has started to note what I predicted…

When I saw the headline “McCain Adviser Won’t Fight Obama,” I surmised that a challenge to duel was being declined. The real story is actually even more bizarre.

A top adviser

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Eric Florack on February 13th, 2008

Haaretz is reporting:

Hezbollah said Wednesday its Deputy Secretary General Imad Mughniyah was killed Tuesday evening in a bomb blast in a residential neighborhood of Damascus, accusing Israel of being behind the explosion.

“With all pride we declare a

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  • If anyone doubts there’s a rebellion within the Republican party against the Rockefeller Republicans, you’ll want to read this. Note the date on it, also. This rebellion has been coming for some time, now, people… it didn’t start with McCain…

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Eric Florack on February 12th, 2008

Fox News Channel’s Jamie Colby has a new report up talking about the big showdown in Berkeley, CA tonight – TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH – when patriots from around the nation will hold an all-day pro-troop demonstration and protest against the

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Eric Florack on February 10th, 2008

Me in email just now:

I don’t see it as those working against McCain as the ones selling out. Indeed, I see a vote for McCain as selling out both the party and the country. I fail utterly, to see

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  • I note with interest, Mark Levin saying

    “I think one important focus of Reagan conservatives should be to do all they can to protect as many Republican seats in the House as possible. There needs to be at least one

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Eric Florack on February 8th, 2008

Someone at Fox posted these yesterday, so I’ll pass them along.

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And here’s the text.

First off, even absent any other source material, it sounds to me like the place is packed with McCain supporters. But add

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davidl on February 8th, 2008

The debate, ladies before gentlemen;

Agan, Laure Ingraham, via Allah Pundit, Hot Air,.

Fer Tom Colburn, via Allah Pundit, Hot Air fer:

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My two cents:   

As to Laura, I love what she said.   Draft  Ingraham – 2012 

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davidl on February 5th, 2008

Local plug, wasn’t a bad weekend for Upstate New York.  Syracuse grad, Art Monk got elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame.  Well deserved.  Waterloo native, Syracuse grad coach, and Rochester Institute of Technology head coach Tom Coughlin won the

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Eric Florack on February 3rd, 2008

I’ve settled long ago on Winamp because of the way it handles the rather large MP3 collection I have here.

However, I thought I’d post what plugins I’m using with Winamp to make the system more livable.

First, I’m using

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Eric Florack on February 2nd, 2008

Two female suicide bombers kill 27, wound 53 civilians in separate attacks

Posted: 01 Feb 2008 10:14 AM CST

FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq (Feb. 1, 2008) – In two separate attacks, female suicide bombers struck two Baghdad markets in

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  • Nice to see Billy made it home. By the way, Billy, I caught the Blue Man Group in HD the last few days, and the show had a fairly close clip of the light control desk. Wild… I’ve seen audio

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