Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

The Daily Mail

Heather Mills McCartney claimed she is being treated worse than a paedophile and murderer by the media.

She also insisted the wealthy elite are either snobs or stingy but maintained it was necessary to move in their

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

Anyone have any idea why both the third world countries I just visited offered excellent airport baggage service, while JFK took over an hour to offload my bag?

Oh, come on, Megan…  

I mean, look, I’m a fan of your

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

An amusing article, from Gene Lyons, which was reprinted in the Northwest Arkansas News this morning…

It’s no exaggeration to say that the establishment media’s initial response to the blogosphere was panic. The idea of mere citizens talking back to

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

Happy Turkey Day

BBCT: Bob Wallace in the “We The People” mailgroup

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

Being a railfan this one caught my interest:

PARIS, Nov. 21 — As a national transit strike stretched into its second week, arsonists disrupted high-speed train service on four main routes on Wednesday. Government officials called the fires a “coordinated

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davidl on November 22nd, 2007

Eliot Spitzer

From Eliot Spitzer’s Never-Never Land:

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — The base fare for New York City’s subways and buses will stay at $2 through 2009 after the state authority that operates the network found $220 million in additional

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davidl on November 22nd, 2007

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I don’t see what Maggie is so surprised about. Europe is the continent that brought you papal infallibility, the divine right of kings, nationalism, fascism, communism, and so on and so on. Europe’s faith in big solutions by big institutions

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davidl on November 22nd, 2007

Caprice Hollins, is called, for some strange reason,  director of Equity, Race & Learning Support, for Seatttle schools.   Yet Hollins has some strange ideas about equality.   Hollins sent home with Seattlle’s students her ‘Myths of ‘The First Thanksgiving.'”‘ 

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

Just some thoughts on this Thanksgiving day.

Perhaps some of you are unaware of the origins of this day being set aside as a national day of Thanksgiving.

Also, you may not know that Ol’ Ben Franklin wanted to make

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

I note Boortz, yesterday, looking at this Michael Vick business with his usual jaundiced eye:

Now .. here’s the laugh of the week. Vick’s attorney is Billy Martin.  Here’s what Martin had to say to the press after Vick disappeared

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

The question is, repeatedly of late when Ron Paul was going to denounce the tinfoil crowd led by Master Troofer, Alex Jones.  The answer, apparently is “not very soon”.

Which is approximately the same time he’ll have my support.

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

Rick Moran over at Pajamas Media discussing what went wrong with Fred Thompson’s campaign, as if it’s a post mortem. it’s a worthy read, which I commend to you.

Personally I am not quite so convinced that the whole situation

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

After about 24 hours of watching the left trying to make something of a snippet of Scott McClellan’s new book… it turns out out that there wasn’t any ‘there’ there…

WASHINGTON -(AP)- Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan does not

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

Bryan at HotAir

 And he says this as tangible progress is being made toward victory.

The Washington Times has led on this story all day and now provides video along with a roundup of reaction.

This week, around our Thanksgiving

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

COALITION FORCES FIND EXECUTION SITE, LARGE CACHE; EIGHT KILLED, 13 DETAINED

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 12:09 PM CST

COALITION FORCES FIND EXECUTION SITE, LARGE CACHE; EIGHT KILLED, 13 DETAINED

IRAQI FORCES, U.S. SPECIAL FORCES DETAIN TWO EXTREMISTS IN AS SA’DIYAH

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