davidl on March 22nd, 2007

1984The rapidly diminishing credibility of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign took another nose dive yesterday, when the creator of the “1984” parody ad was exposed by none other than Arianna Huffington. ABC News did itself no credit by reporting Huffington’s story

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Eric Florack on March 21st, 2007

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Character actor Calvert DeForest, best known for his dead-pan appearances as the pudgy, bespectacled everyman Larry “Bud” Melman on David Letterman’s late-night TV show, has died at age 85.

DeForest died on Monday at Good Samaritan

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Eric Florack on March 21st, 2007

cathyseipp-thumb.jpgWith a nod of thanks to Warren Zevon, who, I think would approve.

Shadows are falling and I’m running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile

If I leave you it doesn’t mean I love you any

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davidl on March 21st, 2007

Lewis Fein, Cathy’s World:

We lost Cathy at 2:05 PM today. May her memory last, her family persevere and her friends endure this terrible loss. We’ll all have more to write shortly, but for now I’d like to truly

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davidl on March 21st, 2007

The Washington Post is all excited because Patrick Fritzgerald, he of the Wilson affair fame, got rated.  Wow. Dan Eggen and John Solomon report:

U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had “not distinguished themselves” on

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Eric Florack on March 21st, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Luther Ingram, the soul singer who seduced audiences with his hit “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right,” has died of a heart attack at age 69, his family said on Wednesday.

Ingram,

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Eric Florack on March 21st, 2007

Moxie has a Cathy Seipp update.

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Eric Florack on March 21st, 2007

Word of what we’re up against

Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday.

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Eric Florack on March 21st, 2007

Billy;

Erb is the kind of person who to my mind exemplifies why I don’t trust anyone from the left, at all anymore, any further than I can throw Jim Nadler. .

 

It’s also why I gave someone else there

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davidl on March 21st, 2007

1984She ought to be.  The ad perfectly captures Mrs. Clinton’s cynical use of the word “conversation.”  View the video.   What do you think??

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davidl on March 21st, 2007

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Liberals are now claiming a strange new theory of executive power — that it’s the bureaucrats, the “experts,” the permanent government in DC, that have almost all of the actual power in the executive branch, and the President is acting

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Eric Florack on March 20th, 2007

BATON ROUGE -Gannett- Gov. Kathleen Blanco has made it official: she will not run for re-election.”I am choosing to do what I believe to be what is best for the state,” the governor said in a statewide television broadcast. “I

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outlaws1.jpg* The Music: The Outlaws first album, 1975. Yes, I seem to be in that neighborhood chronologically, for a couple of weeks now. This one is an old favorite. Probably the most powerful guitar album I am aware of…

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Eric Florack on March 20th, 2007

ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) – John Backus — whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s — paved the way for modern software — has died. He was 82.

If you use a computer, you owe this man a

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davidl on March 20th, 2007

The Daily Mail(UK) reports on extremists’ demands to kill Knut:

At three months old, however, the playful 19lb bundle of fur is at the centre of an impassioned debate over whether he should live or die.

Animal rights activists

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