davidl on December 11th, 2007

Mrs. ClintonThe New York Times , via Memeorandum, reports that Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is looking for dirt on Barack Obama.

If there was any question whether Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign was concerned about the rise of Senator Barack Obama,

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Eric Florack on December 11th, 2007

Scott at Powerline:

The man who shot up a training center for missionaries and a church in suburban Denver, killing four people and wounding a number of others, has been identified:

A law enforcement official says the deadly rampages

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Eric Florack on December 11th, 2007

OKLAHOMA CITY — (AP)- A wintry storm caked America’s center with a thick layer of ice, blacking out more than 600,000 homes and businesses, and more icy weather was on the way. At least 17 deaths in Oklahoma and Missouri

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Eric Florack on December 10th, 2007

TALIBAN EXTREMISTS DETAINED IN KANDAHAR PROVINCE

Posted: 10 Dec 2007 04:23 AM CST

TALIBAN EXTREMISTS DETAINED IN KANDAHAR PROVINCE

SEVERAL MILITANTS KILLED, 10 DETAINED, TWO WOUNDED CIVILIANS FOUND AFTER HELMAND OPERATION

Posted: 10 Dec 2007 04:15 AM CST

SEVERAL MILITANTS

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Eric Florack on December 10th, 2007

Billy Beck asks:

 How in the world does someone get to be the White House Press Secretary and know nothing about the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Simple; they’re not teaching it anymore, particularly in government schools.

And why not?

Because

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davidl on December 10th, 2007

Mrs. William ClintonMrs. Clinton’s remaining supporters believe she is tough, via Memeorandum:

This isn’t an anti-Hillary crowd. She gets high marks for her experience, intelligence and toughness; these qualities, they suspect, are what voters demand.

Mrs. Clinton’s s supporters are

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Eric Florack on December 10th, 2007

We’ve had a bit of Email discussion, more or less centered on my most recent post about Mitt Romney. Specifically, the topic ends up being whether not there is a religious test for high office. As a basis for

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Eric Florack on December 10th, 2007

I commented over the weekend about Sitemeter screwing up.
I got a nice note from the sitemeter folks, saying taht they’d had some database issues with the sm5 database…(Which this site is on) and they’d be OK shortly. It seems

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Eric Florack on December 10th, 2007

I mentioned, the other day, about how the NBC lawyer who rejected that “thank you to the troops” video, turns out to be rather generous source of donations for congressional Democrats.  Here’s the article I wanted to link to edit

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davidl on December 10th, 2007

I don’t know if there is a god or if he exists what he wants.   Nobody does.  Yet that does not preclude bigots like Fred Phelps and Mike Huckabee from proclaiming they know what God wants,  Linda S.  Caillouet,  Arkansas

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Fellow Swamp Stomper Sister Toldjah, guesting over at Right Wing News:

One of their favorite retired Generals, Major General John Batiste, who appeared in an ad for the anti-war Vote Vets website, and who had an op/ed published on

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Eric Florack on December 9th, 2007

Melissa, guesting over at Right Wing News:

Can identity politics get any more ridiculous? In trying to establish cred with minorities, civil rights leader Andrew Young says what could be nominated for the most ridiculous quote this electoral season:

In

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From Little Green Footballs:

In 2002, Nancy Pelosi was a member of a bipartisan group that was made aware of harsh interrogation techniques being used with Islamic terrorists in US custody—and the group not only approved of the tactics (including

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davidl on December 9th, 2007

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 And obviously since 2002 Congressional Democrats[Mrs. Pelosi] have gotten a lot more complacent about terrorism. Hey, why worry? We haven’t had a terrorist attack since 2001 on our soil … it’s Bush’s fault! Er, or something like that. Yeah, I’m

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Eric Florack on December 9th, 2007

OK, this is the second day I’ve noted Sitemeter going crazy. Along about 4 or so, on both Saturday, and Sunday, I’ve noted “Today’s” hit count being at zero… where it’d been at normal levels before that.

What’s going on,

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