Eric Florack on November 11th, 2007

Poor Paul Krugman...

So there’s a campaign on to exonerate Ronald Reagan from the charge that he deliberately made use of Nixon’s Southern strategy. When he went to Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1980, the town where the civil rights workers

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davidl on November 10th, 2007

From, Agence France-Presse,  

Los Angeles – Los Angeles on Friday voted to ban the racist “N-word” with city councillors saying they hope the symbolic gesture will stop people from using the epithet in any context.

The Los Angeles City

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Eric Florack on October 19th, 2007

Boortz, yesterday:

Got an email from Matt today. Probably not his real name. He would have good reason to keep his name off my show … since he got kicked out of school for reading Nealz Nuze.

Matt tells me

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Eric Florack on October 14th, 2007

I know… who?

It’s Chris Muir’s sister.  Chris is the one responsible for Day by Day, likely the best political cartoon on the web, anymore.  I noticed that Chris was running a slug which said he was currently dealing

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Eric Florack on October 13th, 2007

McQ notes that the Jenna six are back in jail.

He points up an AP article:

A judge decided the fight that thrust a teenager into the center of a civil rights controversy violated his probation for a previous conviction

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Eric Florack on October 2nd, 2007

From the new WorldPress news feed I’ve just hooked us up with:

NEW YORK -(AP) In an end to a salacious three-week trial, a jury ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million (all figures U.S.)

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davidl on October 2nd, 2007

Now that Clarence Thomas has gone public and presented a sterling defense of both his character and reputation, the New York Times and Anita Hill evidently feel entitled, or obligated, to besmeerch Thomas’s reputation yet again.

Ms Hill has an

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Eric Florack on September 15th, 2007

September 9 of 1957… A date which, apparently, will live in anonymity.

That was the date that president Eisenhower signed into effect the 1957 civil rights act.  Given that most of you are graduates of government schools, you’ve probably never

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