davidl on April 16th, 2008

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I came to know Carter well.

When he ran for reelection, he asked me to campaign for him in 1980 — I was by then Mayor of New York City — and I said that I would vote for him,

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Eric Florack on April 14th, 2008

Dan Drezner grew a bit, apparently, over the weekend. He’s still got a long way to go, in this, but the progress is notable.

Remember when I said earlier this week that, “Glenn Greenwald might be a good blogger/collumnist, but

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Eric Florack on April 14th, 2008

Yeah, maybe.

I think I’ve found a theme that I like the look of, and at first blush doesn’t look like it’ll take forever to write our stuff to. The look is a little cleaner, though it’ll take some work

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davidl on April 12th, 2008

Barack ObamaBarack Obama, speaking to donors in San Francisco:

But – so the questions you’re most likely to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What’s the concrete thing?’ What they wanna hear is –

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  • That’s OK, Jon. Tell ya what; Greenwald can claim I’m pro-torture, if he likes… because under some conditions I am. .. and for all the moralizing that’s been thrown at the issue, nobody’s ever come up with an even

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Eric Florack on April 11th, 2008

The much talked about “oil for food’ program had it’s share of problems. Corruption, mostly. Not to be wondered at, give we’re dealing with the UN there. But apparently, trying to exchange food for oil isn’t much better, as James

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Eric Florack on April 7th, 2008

Scott Fybush over at NERW, says:

There’s a lineup change to report at WWRL (1600 New York), as the Access.1-owned talker pulls more Air America programming off its schedule. Instead of Air America’s Lionel from 9 AM-noon, WWRL now

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Eric Florack on April 6th, 2008

Drezner:

Another day, another online article. The topic of my latest Newsweek column is whether the West — i.e., American and Europe — can still act as the global policy leader. I’m not optimistic: America and Europe face political, economic

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davidl on April 6th, 2008

You may now take Mr. Heston’s firearms. Charlton Heston is dead at age 84. The Associated Press offers an ironic headline, “Oscar-winning star of ‘Ben-Hur’ was known for heroic roles:”

LOS ANGELES – Charlton Heston, who won the

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davidl on April 4th, 2008

The Clinton’s income, from the Drudge Report:

World Exclusive: 4/4/08 15:43:06 ET
2000-2007 Returns
Feds Taxes Paid: $33.7 million
Charity: $10.2 million
Her Senate Salary: $1,051,606
His Presidential Pension: $1,217,250
Her Book Income: $10,457,083
His Book Income: $29,580,525
His

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  • I tend to agree, Billy, (In fact I think you’re getting soft in your dotage) but the sad truth is that in that cesspool, he’ll likely find a band of supporters. Not only is he dumping n the military,

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Eric Florack on April 2nd, 2008

As of tonight, BitsBlog has moved to WordPress 2.5. This is the latest version available. While you likely won’t see much in the way of changes at the user level, some rather massive changes at the Author and SysOp levels

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Eric Florack on April 1st, 2008

John Lott online at Fox this morning, puts a slightly different angle on things than the Democrats want spread round:

A little perspective on the economy would be helpful. The average unemployment rate during President Clinton was 5.2 percent. The

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  • I wasn’t exactly goig through withdrawal symptoms over the weekend, while the site servers got moved physically… but damned near that. At least a dozen times I saw something that screamed out to be written up for the blog, and

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Eric Florack on March 31st, 2008

OK, I’ve gotta give Joe Lieberman credit. From Time this morning:

Well, I say that the Democratic Party changed. The Democratic Party today was not the party it was in 2000. It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was

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