Eric Florack on October 23rd, 2009

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  • THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE PRESS: Let’s get down to this one, right off. Both David and myself have commented on

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Eric Florack on October 23rd, 2009

Doctor Charles Krauthammer, this morning:

Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed.

Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily.

The White House

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davidl on September 17th, 2009

More Kyle-Anne, from American Thinker:

If there is one thing even more American than apple pie, it is the rhetorical slicing and dicing of our presidents.  This stems from the egalitarian nature of our Constitution and our forceful, revolutionary

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Eric Florack on August 17th, 2009

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This is the Slippery Edition

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Eric Florack on August 4th, 2009

An interesting, if occasionally infuriating piece from Michael Ledeen at Pajamas Media this morning.  A snip and a couple comments:

 

I studied fascism primarily because I wanted-desperately-to understand how so many people could have appeased it.  Did they-and by

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Eric Florack on July 6th, 2009

A great piece from Mary Grabar at Pajamas Media today. Here’s a bit of it:

But those streets, once havens for displaced persons, soon were destroyed by the utopian plans of collectivists and their agitators who urged the

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on July 4th, 2009

declaration-of-independenceTwo hundred and thirty-three years ago, the men of the Second Continental Congress made a bold gesture as they sought to uncleave themselves from their ties with Great Britain.  A gesture intended to convey that they were serious about the

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Eric Florack on July 4th, 2009

I notice, by way of Fox news and a few other places, that both John McCain and President Obama have delivered speeches on this Fourth of July, that sound on similar themes.

I suppose these kind of platitudes are to

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davidl on July 2nd, 2009

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Chavez, Ortega, Castro and Obama; Charles Krauthammer nails the one, via Gatway Pundit:

“Two weeks ago he refuses to meddle in a country where peaceful demonstrators are getting shot be a theocratic dictatorship. He doesn’t want to choose

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Eric Florack on June 15th, 2009

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  • Iran: I’ve not commented much on Iranian election, mostly because the thing was breaking so fast

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davidl on June 11th, 2009

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Breakfast Scramble is now like Microsoft. It is now a feature and not merely a bug.,

Sarah v. Letterman, John Ziegler gets a wee bit snide and testy with MSNBC. View the video on Real Clear Politics.    I

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Eric Florack on June 10th, 2009

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This is the Sporting Goods Edition
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  • Letterman smear? Of a 14 year old, no less? And of course it’s OK if they’re

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Eric Florack on June 4th, 2009

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This is the “Need Some Gas?” Edition

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Eric Florack on June 1st, 2009

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This is the Railroad Station Edition.

  • A political shooting you won’t hear about: Jonah Godberg points out an incident I’d not heard

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Eric Florack on May 29th, 2009

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ramble-crosbucksThis is the Crossing Edition. Yes, we’ll hold you up for a few minutes, but at least you’ll have something interesting

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