While Gallup’s most recent poll… and the “reporting” thereof… centered on the idea that Hillary Clinton has passed Oprah Winfrey as the most admired woman…. (Nobody asked me…)   Ron Coleman over at Right Wing News reports there’s a little

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Eric Florack on December 26th, 2007

820531727678167×1_20071217news_n468.jpgLast week, we mentioned a number of TV stations in the Scranton PA area that were knocked off the air by the ice storm that blanketed that area.  Scott Fybush over at the Northeast Radio Watch advises us that things

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Economically speaking, this Christmas season wasn’t bad.

Glenn notes today:

CHRISTMAS RETAIL SALES UP, BUT BY A MODEST 3.6% — but online sales were up 22.4%. The New York Times calls those numbers “bleak,” a term that’s more accurately used

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Eric Florack on December 25th, 2007

To say it’s a slow political day, this Christmas Day, is understating it by several factors of scale.  Example… When I see CNN’s political ticker, by way of Memeorandum pointing out that President Bush gave his wife a purse for

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davidl on December 22nd, 2007

Can the President simply kill most congressional pork by issuing an executive order.   The Congressional Research Service is of the opinion he can.    Gaius, Blue Crab Boulevard, asks,” Could It Really Be This Simple:”

Mark Tapscott reports that there

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Eric Florack on December 19th, 2007

WASHINGTON -AP- The Democratic-controlled House is expected to give President Bush an end-of-session victory in his yearlong battle with anti-war lawmakers over Iraq by approving $70 billion for U.S. military operations there and in Afghanistan.The vote Wednesday also would represent

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Eric Florack on December 18th, 2007

Bill Clinton is lying for proposing a goodwill trip and having the idea nixed the later the same day by the Bush camp?

No, moron. Bill Clinton got exposed as a liar in this case, because he tried to leave

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davidl on December 18th, 2007

Mr.and Mrs.William Cinton

B.J. and Mrs. Clinton have long been liars.   They used to be considered adept liars.  Now they are just chronic liars.   The Clintons’ latest lie has been destroyed by none other than their very own Clinton News Network.

By Peter

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Eric Florack on December 18th, 2007

Word from Scott Fybush that the weather system that brought us all the snow David spoke of yesterday, brought down a bunch of TV and radio stations in the Scranton area.

Just before 7:00 Sunday morning, the 823-foot tower of

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Eric Florack on December 17th, 2007

OK, here’s Anna Kornikova.

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I have no idea who this is.

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Didn’t these girls used to sell beer?

OK, OK, I know… what the beep is Bit doing?

I’m about getting banned in Iran, of course.  Banning us in

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davidl on December 14th, 2007

Fred08 has issued the following apology:

From Karen Hanretty, Deputy Communications Director:

In light of Mike Huckabee’s heartfelt apology to Mitt Romney for making reference to Romney’s religion in the New York Times Magazine, we at the Thompson Campaign would

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Eric Florack on December 14th, 2007

Billy;

An enduring mystery to me: I do not understand why anyone in this country stacks so much as one brick on top of another. Observe:

“The Bush tax cuts, more than any other policy, are crippling the government financially.”

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Eric Florack on December 14th, 2007

It really has been mortifying to watch The National Review going supine for nothing but the value of winning the next election. That they would endorse Mitt Romney is just pathetic, and a glaring sign of the times. Kathryn Jean

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davidl on December 13th, 2007

Speaker Pelosi

If there is one thing I admire about Mrs. Pelosi is how clean her toes are: 

WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at Republicans on Thursday, saying they want the Iraq war to drag on

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Eric Florack on December 12th, 2007

I note Patterico and company taking major bits of backside off Chuckie, again. That’s OK. The guy can afford it.. as he’s amply demonstrated several times, he’s ALL ass. The documentation of that is here on BitsBlog, and in

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