Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday CNN may have been instigating his murder when the U.S. TV network showed a photograph of him with a label underneath that read “Who killed him?”The caption appeared to be

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davidl on November 28th, 2007

What is about freedom that so darn hard for the ‘rats to understand?  According to ABC News, Barack Obama does not understand the Constitution of the United States.

The issue of mandates for health care has driven the

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Gateway Pundit:

Reportedly, on Sunday 11 close family members of Jordanian-based Baathist reporter Dia al-Kawwaz, who runs the online anti-Iraq newspaper Shabeqat Akhbar al-Iraq, were slaughtered in Baghdad. The attack occurred in the Al-Shaab neighborhood shortly after

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Hehehe… Democrats.Org  has come up with one of the more stupid moves I’ve seen in a long time:

For months now, Democrats have been tracking the Republican presidential frontrunners in the field, compiling a video library of candid moments as

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Today’s WSJ:

Fred Thompson’s Presidential campaign has been struggling, in part because of a sense that he lacks passion and an agenda. But late last week he unveiled a tax reform that is more ambitious than anything we’ve seen so

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

McQ, this morning, looks at the Citibank investment yesterday:


Soren Dayton says this may be the “Defining news story of the cycle”…

Citigroup Inc., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, will receive a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Abu Dhabi

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Over at The Glittering Eye, Dave Schuler extends the argument he’s made in the commentstongue-in-cheek post on the fact that the media continues to ignore the ethnic-religious component of the rioting in France.He argues that the problem goes

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davidl on November 28th, 2007

You have good liars and you have chronic liars.  Nobody seems to be believing B.J. Clinton’s  latest.  The New York Times is reporting that B.J. now clains to have opposed the war, “from the beginning

Sadly for B.J.

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

I tend to use a lot of older equipment around here.  The fastest server at Casa de Bit is a PII/400 that I’ve cracked up to around 700 or so with some added cooling. The other two are PII/400’s.

I’ve

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davidl on November 27th, 2007

Writing in the Christian Science Monitor, one Mansoor Ijaz, attempts to skewer Mitt Romney for his answer to a question that Ijaz provides no evidence was ever asked:

I asked Mr. Romney whether he would consider including qualified Americans

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Fifty-one years ago, November 27 was also a Tuesday. I’ve been told that it was a gray and rainy afternoon in Little Rock, Arkansas, but I don’t recall on my own observations, because I was a bit busy being born.

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Robert Bindinotto:

The Muslim world is not fooled by our talk about spreading democracy and values. The evidence is too overwhelming that we do not hesitate to support dictators and install puppet governments when it serves our interests. When democratic

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davidl on November 27th, 2007

The Associated Press.

MIAMI – Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor died early Tuesday, a day after the Pro Bowl player was shot at home by what police say was an intruder. He was 24.

Guns don’t kill,  Intruders do.

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Boortz, this morning:

Here is the text of an email that was sent to every student at the University of Florida by the vice president for student affairs. Note, please, the hyphenated name. I don’t know about you … but

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

The “Rightosphere Temperature Check For November: Special GOP Primary Edition” is now up at RWN.

John Hawkins says in mail this morning:

 In this poll, right-of-center bloggers ranked the top 5 GOP contenders on everything from electability to fiscal

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