Eric Florack on August 6th, 2007

fayad.jpgThe Palestinian Authority’s security organizations are unable to assume security control of cities in the West Bank, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayad told senior Israeli officials during recent meetings. Fayad told Israeli officials that the PA’s security forces are unable

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davidl on August 6th, 2007

It is hard to find precedent for a supposed major presidential canidate as inept as Barack Obama, who is causing such international embarrassment.  Consider this Assocxated Press item:

Pakistani tribal protesters gather to condemn the U.S. presidential hopeful candidate Barack

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Eric Florack on August 5th, 2007

According to several sources, today, Hosting Matters has been having problems, today. I noted problems hitting a few sites, including Captain’s Quarters. It seems resolved at the moment, but I gotta tell ya…  I’m starting to wonder at the frequency

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davidl on August 5th, 2007

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“He’s gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week,”

Mitt Romney on Barack Obama (video).  

Hat tip:  Allah Pundit, Hot Air

I agree with Allah, that Mitt’s remark was scripted.  However, Obama did leave himself wide

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Eric Florack on August 5th, 2007

JPOD says: 

“In short, I am white, privileged, middle-aged and boring,” Stephen Metcalf in his rather startlingly vicious review of the Why I Turned Right anthology Stanley has been blogging about. “But one thing I am not, and never will

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Eric Florack on August 5th, 2007

Charles Johnson on the topic of Kos:

Imagine, if you will, the reaction among LGF’s admirers on the left if I started deleting topics and comments wholesale.

And that, in my view, cuts to the heart of the matter .

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Eric Florack on August 5th, 2007

GOOSE CREEK (WCBD) – The FBI and the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department are investigating what they think are explosives found in a car in Goose Creek.

Police say part of Highway 176 in Berkeley County is closed, and traffic is

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Eric Florack on August 5th, 2007

Joyner:

How’s this for a confluence of events: Barry Bonds ties Hank Aaron atop the career home run list; Alex Rodriguez hits his 500th home run, by 330 days the youngest to do so in Major League Baseball’s long

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davidl on August 4th, 2007

As of Wednesay, 1 August 2007, catostrophic bridge disasters were rare.   After the events of Wednesday, catostrophic bridge collapses remain rare, and will remiain rare. 

We have evidence in video form. and from the Northwestern University, Infrastructure Technology Institute

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Eric Florack on August 4th, 2007

Just 24% give the president favorable ratings of his performance in handling the war in Iraq, but confidence in Congress is significantly worse – only 3% give Congress positive marks for how it has handled the war. This lack of

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davidl on August 4th, 2007

Wonkette calls Alan Mollohan (salty language) corrupt, which he is.   In so far as she went, Wonkette did well.  She’d have done much better if she had remembered to refer to Mollohan as a democrat, which he is.

Personally

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Eric Florack on August 4th, 2007
  • So if this Muslin bakery in Oakland, was such a problem, and there was a number of murders linked to it, why do you suppose it is that it took the death of a “journalist” to put it on

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Eric Florack on August 4th, 2007

The democrats did not figuratively steal a vote in the House of Representatives.  They literally did.  Editor, Influence Peddler, has the story of a stolen vote.

The vote was a motion to recommit which would prevented benefits to

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Eric Florack on August 4th, 2007

Oh, Shut up, David, and quit trying to make us believe that you have a fricking clue.  You don’t do it very well.

The “glory days” of the Wall Street Journal you speak so fondly of, is precisely why it

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Eric Florack on August 4th, 2007

valor1sm.jpgToday we honor a Captain from the 82nd Airborne Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team for valor in combat in Samarra, Iraq. In addition to the Silver Star, CPT Goltry was awarded two Purple Hearts for wounds received in action

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