Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

Jason says today:

NRO symposium on the Teddy-bear Intifada has some modest proposals but they don’t go far enough. In response to the alleged insult, we should deliberately and emphatically insult Islam: it is a vicious supremacist ideology that has

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

Billy;

You had an Uncle that worked for The Rock?

Rock Island power... a now very rare General Electicl U-23B(Sigh) I’d have loved to talk to him at length on that subject.

Yeah, OK, I picked up on just that one aspect of a full life. Then again,

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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

Well, what do you know… Ibrahim Hooper… the CAIR spokesman, and usually an Islamic Extremist Apologist, manages to surprise Uncle Bithead, this morning, as regards the TeddyBear case in the Sudan:

Even if Ms. Gibbons had the intent to

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Eric Florack on November 29th, 2007

So, the Democrats managed to ‘slip one by’ CNN’s screening process? It appears so.

Adam Yoshida notes it, this morning:

So, the fellow who just asked the Republican candidates about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, retired Brigader General Keith Kerr,

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Over at The Glittering Eye, Dave Schuler extends the argument he’s made in the commentstongue-in-cheek post on the fact that the media continues to ignore the ethnic-religious component of the rioting in France.He argues that the problem goes

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Boortz, this morning:

Here is the text of an email that was sent to every student at the University of Florida by the vice president for student affairs. Note, please, the hyphenated name. I don’t know about you … but

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

If you want to know what the Democratic presidential candidates and the Democratic Party believe, the debates, often derided as intellectually inconsequential, reveal a great deal. The problem is that news media almost never report the most important statements the

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Eric Florack on November 17th, 2007

Vince Flynn, author of the NYT listed best selling novel, “Protect and Defend”, in the Washington Times, today:

Question: In the real world, how effective do you think torture is with Islamic terrorists?
A: Far more effective than liberals

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Eric Florack on November 3rd, 2007

Mega-Idiot, Matt Stoller:

I like Tom Perriollo, though I find this diatribe on the common good very annoying.

Censorship may not be a viable or appropriate solution, but do any of us honestly believe that the ready availability of internet

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Eric Florack on October 31st, 2007

Boortz yesterday, picked up in mid-description…

It seems that this person focus right now is in helping this sector of our economy avoid unionization. Unions are, apparently, hot to organize senior living facilities. OK .. so there’s no surprise there

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2007

Heh… Steyn comes up with an instant classic...a quip… actually, a few of them, I wish I could have claimed as my own:

steyn22.jpgAs far as I know, the movie Deliverance has featured in political discourse just the

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Eric Florack on October 27th, 2007

I only heard part of this, today, while scanning across KYW/1060… it doesn’t come in up here very well in the daytime.

WorldNetDaily:

Outraged citizens crashed the e-mail system of the Philadelphia mayor’s office after the city accused the local

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Eric Florack on October 27th, 2007

Yes, E-Mailers, I did in fact see the Military Times story linked over at Memeorandum.

And no, I didn’t jump all over it, because frankly I’m just so (beep) tired of having to re-hash this stuff over and over.  Guess

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davidl on October 25th, 2007

Attributed to  Senator Joesph Biden by CNN:

Explaining why schools in Iowa are performing better than those in Washington, D.C., Biden told the Post, “There’s less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American.

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