davidl on May 14th, 2007

I am sure Karl Rove is losing sleep over this one.  Chuck Hagel is floating the idea of running as an independent with Michael Bloomberg.  I am sure that a Hagel-Bloomberg ticket could get four, or even fives votes.  The

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davidl on May 13th, 2007

Howard Dean

Evidently Howard Dean does not like the reporting that he told Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius Katrinaize the recent Kansas tornados.

Sister Toldjah has the low down on Dean’s thugs at the DNC trying to intimidate Free Republic.   It is not

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Eric Florack on May 13th, 2007

Noted in passing;

Michelle honoring the memory of Marine Master Sgt. Michael Wert, who…

wert.jpg…drowned this weekend while saving two children in distress at Atlantic Beach, N.C.  “He was always there to help,” said Lt. Col. William Conley, commander of

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Noted in passing, a nugget of truth:

“When is the last time you heard of a Jew or Christian with a bomb strapped to their body?”

Of course, the usual suspects are all upset by the question.  But the fact

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Eric Florack on May 13th, 2007

McQ notes Nancy Pelosi politicizing mother’s day as a part of the HufPo bit David linked;

Women have always been the peacekeepers of our societies. When I became the first woman Speaker of the House this year, I was

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davidl on May 13th, 2007

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Liberals wonder why most Americans hate the United Nations so. The UN itself keeps providing the answer.

Don Surber

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davidl on May 12th, 2007

Speaker PelosiMrs. Pelosi wrote a truely disgusting piece of pabulum for the Puffington Post

There are numerous reasons to end this war – the cost of lives and limbs, the cost in dollars, the cost to our reputation in the world,

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Eric Florack on May 12th, 2007

Kevin Drum, over at Washington Monthly, shows his usual keen understanding of political history when he asks:

Here’s a question for any old-timers who might be reading this blog: was George Romney’s Mormon faith an issue for him when

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Mr. Eric Blair…. otherwise known as George Orwell, told us, in the pages of “Animal Farm” of how socialist leaders tend to take for their own the best while expecting the others to not only shouler their burdens, but do

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davidl on May 12th, 2007

Michelle Malkin has the story, with all kinds of links, of Tufts University jihad against free speech, at least the conservative kind. here.

Tufts, as a private school, has the right to establish any kind of speech code they alone

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davidl on May 12th, 2007

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Charles Babington, Associated Press, repors on more allegators found in Mrs. Pelosi’s Swamp:

House Democrats are suddenly balking at the tough lobbying reforms they touted to voters last fall as a reason for putting them in charge of Congress.

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Eric Florack on May 12th, 2007

There’s a number of sub-plots involved with this post. (read it, and come back)

xm_logo.gifFull disclosure time: I’m an XM subscriber, but I don’t listen to O&A, and have never cared for that kind of radio, be it Stern,

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Hillary ClintonLinda Mason, CBS News, purports to talking about Katie Couric and her sinking ratings, but Mason could just as well be talking of Mrs. Ciinton’s campaign:

Linda Mason: I’m just surprised at how, almost 30 years after I

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Eric Florack on May 11th, 2007

I’m getting mail again, about how I ought to be writing about gas prices.

 

I’ve already done that.

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About two years ago, I posted a list of causes of high gasoline prices. The situation, has not changed, except for

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davidl on May 11th, 2007

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Here’s a story from today’s WaPo about the demagogue-o-rama triggered by the recent spike in gas prices. Now they’re lining up to blame “big oil” in spite of the fact that most gas stations are mom and pop operations. No

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