davidl on December 12th, 2007

Congratulations to Representatives elect Rob Wittman, Virginia and Rob Latta, Ohio.  Michelle Malkin has more;  

John, Power Line, comments:

Much like the Republicans of 1994, the Democrats post-2006 are misinterpreting the “mandate” the voters gave them last year.

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Drudge confirms something I’ve suspected for a while, now:


**Exclusive**

Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal.

The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he

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Eric Florack on December 10th, 2007

We’ve had a bit of Email discussion, more or less centered on my most recent post about Mitt Romney. Specifically, the topic ends up being whether not there is a religious test for high office. As a basis for

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Fellow Swamp Stomper Sister Toldjah, guesting over at Right Wing News:

One of their favorite retired Generals, Major General John Batiste, who appeared in an ad for the anti-war Vote Vets website, and who had an op/ed published on

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From Little Green Footballs:

In 2002, Nancy Pelosi was a member of a bipartisan group that was made aware of harsh interrogation techniques being used with Islamic terrorists in US custody—and the group not only approved of the tactics (including

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2007

Me at Q&O where Dale Franks is properly agonizing over ‘torture’:

Do we really want the government to do “unpleasant, unsavory and sometimes awful things” in the defense of our freedom?

I am amazed that a veteran of our military

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

In an Op-Ed in the WaPo today , John Bolton says, in part:

Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week. Rarely has an administration

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

All of a sudden, Memeorandum isn’t crawling BitsBlog.

Not sure why.

Update: I’m breathing, again. Memeorandum has us listed.

What concerned me is I’d made a change to the search engine optimization, and I thought I’d trashed it. Guess not.

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davidl on December 6th, 2007

AlfI really like Alf   However I would never vote for Alf.   Likewise Mike Huckabee might be a likable person, but his most definitely not qualified to be President.    We live in a dangerous world and Huckabee is simply too naive

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

This is rich….

A blog on a site promoting Al Gore’s climate change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, has been hacked by penis pill-promoting spammers.

Links on the blog portion of the climatecrisis.net site point to websites hawking online pharmaceuticals

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2007

Pete Wehner over at The Corner:

It turns out, of course, that it was TNR‘s critics, and not TNR, who were vindicated, and all honor is due to them.

What The New Republic didn’t understand, and still seems

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2007

Jon Martin at the Politico:

Halperin has the big news: Mitt Romney will take to to the Bush Library in College Station, Texas, on Thursday to give a long-anticipated, much-debated speech about his Mormon faith and the role of

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2007

James Taranto, the other day(Via mail) speaks about Murtha admitting there’s serious progress in Iraq, and that the surge IS working….

Murtha does make the obligatory complaint about lack of political progress in Iraq, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that

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Eric Florack on December 2nd, 2007

There’s an old adage which states that the reason that PETA goes after rich women in furs, as opposed to motorcycle gangs wearing leather, is because the latter is far more likely to get one killed outright.

I have to

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Eric Florack on December 1st, 2007

There’s an awful lot on the line in Venezuela tomorrow.

It amounts to a constitutional referendum , which, if passes, will give Crazy Uncle Hugo the unlimited power he seeks. if on the other hand, that referendum gets voted down,

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