Eric Florack on November 5th, 2007

WBBM-TV is reporting:

CHICAGO (CBS) ? You may have seen him stubbornly standing up to an invasion of evil robots this summer in “Transformers,” but if you were in downtown Chicago early Sunday, you may have seen him stubbornly standing

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2007

From the UK comes word that Santa has been ordered to slim down.

Santa is being told to shift the pounds before Christmas – because the obese saint is failing to set a “good example” for children.

The traditional children’s

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2007

Summer has been so damned busy, I’ve not had much time to do any serious reading, except when we were camping. Some summers are like that.

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With winter coming on up here…(We’re expecting snow, here, come Thursday) I’ve started

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2007

I was interested to see Blue Crab Blvd commenting on the possibility of Rosie O’Donnel showing up at MS-NBC:

The Melted Steely Knoll Troll and the Mouth That Roared Lies together at last. Obviously, MSNBC is trying to corner the

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2007

(Sigh)

I was worried this might happen…

DALLAS —AP– A wounded Iraq veteran and his wife have lost a third child from injuries the boy suffered in a car accident on the way to visit his father in the hospital.

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davidl on November 5th, 2007

Well it is if you are a democrat.   Has  Jenny Ballantine become the symbol of the democrat party?

Ann Coulter: via J0hn Hawkins, Right Wing News.

“If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2007

Billy Beck makes a point that I made yesterday:

Doug Mataconis links and quotes Radley Balko on the latest rumblings among the savages:

This is why ‘spreading democracy’ is such a foolish foreign policy objective. There are lots

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2007

I spoke the other day about Voter Fraud, Motor Voter, Spitzer, and the Democrats ,and their plan to give driver’s licenses to illegals in order to facilitate that vote fraud.

I see John Edwards has started touting a plan similar

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davidl on November 5th, 2007

Gerry Willis , in the Los Angeles Times,  attempts a tortured defense of the practice of abortion:

But is abortion murder? Most people think not. Evangelicals may argue that most people in Germany thought it was all right to

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2007

Michelle notes that to get the story of what’s happening in Iraq, you need to turn to the newspapers… in Austrailia.

IT is whispered about at the margins of meetings, and discussed in Washington parties where rumour is passed around

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Good lord, it MUST be.

I mean, in the last week, I’ve gotten… and I kid you not, around 1000 notes telling me I need enlargement.

I dunno. Only thing I can figure is my reputation somehow became otherwise than

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2007

Over at Blue Crab Blvd, Gaius tells us:

Christopher Booker and Richard North, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, detail the incredible levels of fraud and deceit behind the global warming scare. The article is a preview of their new

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2007

By now, just about everyone is all over this Musharraf thing.

Perhaps it’s as well that I point you toward Memeorandum for the latest. Particularly from there, I’m finding The Corner to be useful. Also, Michelle is on top of

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2007

An interesting note from Glenn today. He’s apparently come to the very same conclusion I came to years ago:

DO NOT TRUST CONTENT FROM ANDREW SULLIVAN: I can’t go around answering all of Andrew Sullivan’s misrepresentations, but it’s telling that

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2007

David Kopel at Volokh 

Earlier this week, Sen. Fred Thompson wrote to Field & Stream magazine, criticizing the UN’s campaign against the human right of self-defense. The Thompson campaign touted the letter on its website, and the letter got a

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