davidl on March 11th, 2007

It is not that I object to the language police.  I do.  It the highly selective nature of their enforcement.   In effect  the crime of speaking while normal.

The PC police have attempted to take certain words out of circulation.  

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davidl on March 10th, 2007

Ann CoulterJohn Edwards would have you believe that he should be president.   Or course Edwards also argued that obstetricians caused celbral palsey.   Yet Edwards was the first candidate to cut and run from the Nevada debates, which were scheduled to coverd

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davidl on March 10th, 2007

The Battle of Thermopylae was fought circa 480 BC.  Ellis L. Knox, provides a good description and summary of the battle: 

The Greeks lost the battle. They had come hoping for a victory and instead had been routed. But Thermopylae

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Eric Florack on March 10th, 2007

Yes, I know, I’m behind in my reading.  In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal Joseph Rago puts up something that certainly wouldn’t get by the sensors over at Dean’s World:

NEW YORK–Ayaan Hirsi Ali is untrammeled and unrepentant: “I am

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davidl on March 10th, 2007

This came as a Scooty Libby to me,  I had forgotten that both Hillary Clinton (House) and Fred Thompson(Senate) had both worked as staff lawyers on Watergate.   As they are potential rivals for the presidency, a comparison their Watergate careers

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Eric Florack on March 10th, 2007

McQ, yesterday does as good a job as anyone showing the split amongst the Democrats over Iraq.

 

 

Rep. Obey: “We’re trying to use the supplemental to end the war. But you can’t end the war if you vote against the

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Eric Florack on March 9th, 2007

* The Music: Boston’s first. Given the events of the day, what else?boston1cover.jpg
* Been an interesting day for readership.  This blog got several hundred hits, from sites in the United Kingdom, all night long.  Apparently people never

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Eric Florack on March 9th, 2007

ATKINSON, N.H. —AP- Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston, was found dead Friday in his home in southern New Hampshire. He was 55. Atkinson police responded to a call for help at 1:20 p.m. and found Delp

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Eric Florack on March 9th, 2007

Hume:

  House Democrats want to force the Pentagon to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and bring the terror suspects housed there to the U.S. The Politico newspaper reports the effort is being led by Virginia Democrat Jim Moran,

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davidl on March 9th, 2007

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Is there a market for Chuck Hagel as a presidential candidate in the Republican Party? Short answer: No

Scott Johnson, Powerline.

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In stunning news the D.C. Circuit Court actually read the Constitutiion of the United States, and after so many long years found the Second Amendment, link:

To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right

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Eric Florack on March 9th, 2007

… starts getting interesting, that is.

fred-thompson.jpgFormer Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) is contacting powerbrokers in the Republican Party to build support for a 2008 presidential campaign by his one-time protégé, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.).

Baker, who

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davidl on March 9th, 2007

Bill RichardsonApparently the smoking gun has been found for Bill Richardson’s candicacy.   Richardson has busy hands and some women, rightfully, find it annoying.  Then that might make a Richardson/Edwards ticket a natural.

Not to defend Richardson, but as democrats go, Richardson’s

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davidl on March 9th, 2007

On Talk to Action, Frederick Clarkson has his knickers in a twist over very rare anti-abortion violence.  As outraged a Clarkson is over violence that so rare that practically is non existent, he is morally blind to the wanton

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Eric Florack on March 9th, 2007

You’re going to hear about Newt Gingrich, today. The reports will undoubtedly focus on this meme:

“Ginrgich was having an affair while he was investigating Bill Clinton’s having an affair.”

What was really going on, though, was that Gringrich

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