Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2011

C’mon. Chris Matthews has to know how hypocritical he comes off. There must be something wrong….

Chris Matthews on Thursday actually showed a graphic image of the Capitol building with a red target on it and crosshairs in the foreground.

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2011

Avon, NY– Took a load from Batavia, NY to Carlisle, PA yesterday, and  today, brought one back.  Because of what I consider company security, I won’t get into a lot of detail of the problems encountered, but I will say

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Eric Florack on January 16th, 2011

I have very few conclusions to draw about this entire sordid Loughner affair, but there are a number of things that should be commented on.

There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that Jared Lougner is a nut case.  

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Eric Florack on December 30th, 2010

Does anyone remember Valarie Plame?
Of course you do. You will recall the left was having kittens over the mere suggestion that someone might have leaked her name to the press.  There were calls for life imprisonment, etc., from the

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Eric Florack on December 18th, 2010

Senator Fred Thompson Twitters today:

Has there EVER been a bipartisan deal with Democrats that didn’t involve spending great big piles of money? http://bit.ly/fV50r9 #ftrs #tcot

The answer of course is a resounding “No”, which is why,  by its

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davidl on December 17th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Turds of Wisdom, from Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal:

But a scorched-earth policy doesn’t make sense for the Obama White House. Independents voted Republican last month by a 59% to 38% margin not because they thought Mr. Obama

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2010
Editor’s note:
As this is written, (Edited, really) I’m preparing to go to bed. I have to leave at 3am for Southern PA from my western NY home, to make a 10am delivery.
As such I really don’t have a

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davidl on November 25th, 2010

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Jimmy Carter has the Norks all wrong, former and disgraced President Jimmy Carter wants to appease North Korea for their recent temper tantrum, from the Washington Post:

No one can completely understand the motivations of the North Koreans,

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davidl on November 20th, 2010

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Dumbo’s Direction, from Eugene Robinson, RCP:

For what it’s worth, my advice for Obama is to forget the Republicans.  Not literally, of course — the new House leadership is going to make itself hard to ignore. But ultimately,

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davidl on November 15th, 2010

Newsweak ponders if the presidency has grown too big for one mere mortal:

Can any single person fully meet the demands of the 21st-century presidency? Obama has looked to many models of leadership, including FDR and Abraham Lincoln, two transformative

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Eric Florack on November 14th, 2010

Let me provide you a data point.

Over the weekend I made a run in my tractor trailer from the Rochester area to Windsor Locks, Connecticut.

Roundtrip ended up being as close to no matter to 600 miles .  The

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Eric Florack on October 24th, 2010

David Scrambled:

NPR can either go partisan or public, Michael Meyers, New York Daily News, is lost in the weeds with respect to National Public Radio:

Juan Williams is right; NPR was way off base firing him

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2010

Unfortunately, watching the gubernatorial race here in New York, is I think indicative of what’s going to be happening in the whole of the country.

As of this writing Cuomo is something like twenty points ahead in the polls.  Of

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davidl on October 4th, 2010

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Meg numchucks Jerry, from Clyde Middleton, Liberty Pundits:

“Jerry, you should be ashamed,” Whitman said. “You and your surrogates put her deportation at risk. You put her out there. You should be ashamed for sacrificing Nicky Diaz

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I won’t try to speak for the guy in Florida arranging for the very public burning of the Koran.

Nor, by the same token, will I attempt to speak for the  foreign-funded groups attempting to put a Mosque at or

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