Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush said Thursday the country is not recession-bound and, despite expressing concern about slowing economic growth, rejected for now any additional stimulus efforts. “We acted robustly,” he said.

“We’ll see the effects of this pro-growth package,”

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

“Every so often I just wish that it were a little more of an even playing field,”

So complains Hillary Clinton.

Only problem of course is that everything being equal as she claims to prefer, would create a situation where

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davidl on February 29th, 2008

Words, mere words, Barack Obama’s stock in trade.   Obama has been campaigning in Ohio trashing NAFTA, whiile his campaign tells the Canadian government to ignore Obama’s words, CTV News(CA):

Allegations of double talk on NAFTA from the Obama and

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

Little Green Footballs passes along an Investor’s Business Daily comment about investing in “Muslim Friendly Funds”:

 Shariah-compliant finance involves investments and other transactions that have been structured to conform with the orthodox teachings of Islamic law.

That means they can’t

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

It’s interesting; Day before yesterday, I complained that one thing that had always turned me off about Buckley is he treated flatly disrespectable people with respect anyway,  to the detriment of the truth. I said the same at Q&O,

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davidl on February 28th, 2008

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“60 Minutes” disdain for the Republican Party brought you embarrassment when you ran a bogus and fraudulent story in the fall of 2004 about President Bush and his National Guard record, and your organization ultimately admitted to not having followed

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Eric Florack on February 28th, 2008

Why do I get the feeling that there’s desperation where McCain is concerned? The New York Times, this monring:

WASHINGTON – The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare

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Eric Florack on February 28th, 2008

Barack Obama has ratcheted up his attacks on NAFTA, but a senior member of his campaign team told a Canadian official not to take his criticisms seriously, CTV News has learned.

So says CTV this morning. 

Yeah, well, no shock

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davidl on February 28th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleMaybe it was the fault of the building?

(CNN) — The building where a gunman killed five people at Northern Illinois University two weeks ago will be demolished, state officials said Wednesday

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s office confirmed

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Eric Florack on February 27th, 2008

Gaius has word of a real toilet exploding scenario.

How’d you like to be the butt of this joke?

Boy, the chili they serve at these nursing homes…

Oh, never mind. Just go see.

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Eric Florack on February 27th, 2008

Jonah Goldberg, whose book I have really got to sit down and read, remarks yesterday:

‘Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.”

This excerpt from William Ayers’ memoir appeared in the New York Times on

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davidl on February 27th, 2008

Richard Cohen, Washington Post, offers to plan to save Mrs. Clinton’s campaign:

There is dissension in the Hillary Clinton camp. Top aides have been in arguments, shouting back and forth about differences in strategy. Should Clinton come on strong?

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Eric Florack on February 27th, 2008

The NY Observer, yesterday:

The argument that the constant carping about Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been a function of an Obama-friendly, process-obsessed media is well and good. But how, then, to explain the deeply held dissatisfaction of an old Clinton

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Eric Florack on February 27th, 2008

Neil Boortz, yesterday:

Harvard University is caving in the matters of “multi-cultural education.”  In order to make Muslim women more comfortable using the gym, Harvard has decided to try instituting a woman-only access time for the gym.  Six hours a

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