Eric Florack on October 24th, 2007

Sounds rather like a forthcoming football game, doesn’t it? Interestingly, this little subtext drama gets played out in the sports venue of each city.

(Sigh) I haven’t even attempted to cover the fires in SouCal. I’m simply not equipped for

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Eric Florack on October 20th, 2007

It’s clear that if the left understands the connection between religion and culture and in turn the voters who operate based on those , they’re not telling.

At some point, someone has to get them to publicly understand that soirees

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Mike Potenra, at The Corner:

Anti-Iraq War blogger Mark Shea is trying to drive a wedge between U.S. evangelicals and Israel, by posting a video on his website that he hopes will shock us into realizing that Israel is just

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

Interesting article in The American Spectator this morning from Shawn Macomber, speaking of the Randi Rhodes thing, yesterday:

A Democratic Underground member went so far as to divine from the assault the opening salvos of “an ideology war between conservatives

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

Boortz, yesterday;

A priest in London is being investigated for inciting racial hatred after expressing his Christian views in a parish newsletter. Father John Hayes commented on a case involving a Muslim girl who wanted to wear her full

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

OK a few notes left over from tonight….

Mind you, these are in no particular order.  It’s too fricking late to be that organized.

  • No, Adkins, traffic was never a problem.  I should tell you that it did manage to

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Eric Florack on October 13th, 2007

By way of Boortz, let’s check out another ‘offended Muslim” story.

 Muslim students at the University of Toronto demanded halal food on their campus. Fine. The school gave in and gave them a long-awaited halal option at an on-campus

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Eric Florack on October 12th, 2007

midge1.jpgIn the first book of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Hobbits are being led by Aragorn across a swamp , and are basically being eaten alive by mosquitoes.  One of the hobbits complains bitterly “What do they eat

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Eric Florack on October 12th, 2007

The first indication that you’re going to lose the culture war is when those supposedly on your side duck and cover.  And that, alas, has already begun.

Reports I have seen… even from sources I usually don’t give much credit

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