davidl on July 9th, 2007

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Criminals don’t care about gun laws … anymore than they care about D.C.’s complete gun ban

Wayne LaPierre’s, reaction, to the armed robbery of a DC school official.

Via, Michelle Malkin.

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Eric Florack on July 9th, 2007
  • So, Cindy Sheehan, has decided she’s going to run against Nancy Pelosi. After swearing off the public life, and after swearing off politics, it appears her given word on the subject wasn’t worth the powder to blow up.  As I

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Eric Florack on July 9th, 2007

From the Strib, just now:

Freshman Congressman Keith Ellison was among friends Sunday — in this case, a gathering of atheists — so his support for a fistful of hot-button opinions, including the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney, brought

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Eric Florack on July 9th, 2007

Boortz this morning:

Western intelligence is confirming it … the mullahs of Iran are, indeed, linked to al Queda. Iran is being used as a base for terrorists. These terrorists then go into Iraq and kill Iraqis and Americans,

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IN the monring rounds, I note Venlet this morning:

From the New York Timeseditors:

(You know, the same morons calling for complete capitulation to our enemies in the Middle East…)

Congress returns this week, with its approval ratings

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davidl on July 9th, 2007

Pinch Sulzberger must really hate Clarence Thomas, a black man who refuses to cowtow to the liberal dogma.  Pinch has piece up by one Linda Greenhouse moaning about the current, barely conservative, make-up of Supreme Court.  Greenhouse writesof her vision

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2007

From IMDB, we are reminded that the script from the movie about Patton, ran something like this:

Patton: What’s the matter with you?
Soldier Who Gets Slapped: Well, I… I guess I… I can’t take it anymore.
Patton

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2007

To say the response to “Live Earth” was a bust, would be like saying Sir Laurence Olivier did a little acting, sometimes.  The London Times:

With the exception of the closing act Madonna – who played next door at Wembley

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2007

I have often been asked, (as was again in this morning’s email), why I make conversational reference to the point being made on someone else’s blog, without making a full explanation of what it is the other writer is talking

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John Venlet over at Improved Clinch:

Schools’ zero tolerance rules have a tendency to relieve teachers and administrators from utilizing their reasoning skills, and their common sense.

While I understand your response, John, and I am sympathetic, I’m going to

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2007

As promised, here’s a series of photos of last night’s happening. For the fourth itself, we went west of here to a little berg called Lyndonville. Those pics are here.

For this trip, we went a bit east… a town

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2007

Asked, a while ago, What are the real consequences of FDR? 

I pointed to an article by Amity Shales in the Wall Street Journal subtitled “Reconsidering our reverence for FDR.”

I suspect that that particular article in the Journal  started

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davidl on July 8th, 2007

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Pinch Sulzberger, a.k.a. the New York Times, in reference to Fred Thompson, is asking, “Is America ready for a president with a trophy wife?” 

To which, Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, says:

I don’t see why not. In 2004, America

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2007

Joyner at OTB:

The big news overnight is the claim by a pro abortion group that it hired Fred Thompson to lobby the first President Bush to soften his stance on a gag rule.
Michael Finnegan broke the story

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davidl on July 7th, 2007

I know it is the question everybody, from Rush Limbaugh to Keith Olbermann, is asking, and given the size of our readship the obvious answer is no.   Yet revolutionary theories are often counter intuitive.

On the Fourth, in “Clinton

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