Eric Florack on November 16th, 2007

The answer is “No”, of course.

MEXICO CITY —USA TODAY- The question of whether to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants has ignited a national debate in the United States.

Yet in Mexico, the biggest source of immigrants to the

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And we see Doctor Krauthammer, this morning;

Doctor Charles KrauthammerWhen the Democratic presidential candidates pause from beating Hillary with a stick, they join in unison to pronounce the Democratic pieties, chief among which is that George Bush has left our alliances in

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Eric Florack on November 16th, 2007

I didn’t see much of the debate last night, and very little of the reax this morning, so far. There’s a lot of it on Memeorandum… I’ve just not had time to look.

However, it doesn’t take a mystic to

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Eric Florack on November 15th, 2007

You’ll recall last night I commented on the drooling idiot, Kos and how Newsweek had lowered themselves into hiring the guy, saying, “That’s OK… Newsweek didn’t have any credibility left, anyway.  No loss.”… Well, perhaps… just perhaps… I under-estimated Newsweek.

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Eric Florack on November 15th, 2007

Well, now….. Just a few hours before Hillary Clinton is to face both the press and her opponents for the Democratic Nomination, ABC news is asking some interesting questions, which will doubtless play heavy tonight:

Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour

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davidl on November 15th, 2007

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Say what you will about Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, the MSM is no longer accepting her as inevitable.   CNN”s Wolf Blitzer asks a good question of Mrs. Clinton.   Bill Sammon

 “If she can’t handle the heat during a Democratic contest,

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Eric Florack on November 15th, 2007

I’ve had some time to consider the Spitzer “I don’t have a plan anymore” speech of yesterday One thing I noted Spitzer’s “poor me” act, wherein he, in dropping the “drivers licenses for illegals” monster he’s been pushing, complains that

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Eric Florack on November 14th, 2007

David Hill… who has really got to consider a non de plume, if he’s going to continue working at The Hill, says:

While Texan Ron Paul’s stock is soaring nationally, there is trouble on the home front. In September,

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Eric Florack on November 14th, 2007

The Washington Post is saying:

Even as the Democratic primary fight enters the final stretch, plans are proceeding apace among party strategists to build an independent money machine that will rival or eclipse what they created in 2004, when donors

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Eric Florack on November 14th, 2007

Kevin Drum makes the usual argument…

VOTER ID….The State of Indiana has the most stringent voter ID laws in the country. Democrats are always griping about this, and have even gone so far as to challenge Indiana’s law in

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davidl on November 13th, 2007

hillary31.jpgChris Welch and David Schechter, CNN, report on Muriel  Gallo-Chasanoff of one Mrs. Clinton’s plants from Grinnell, Iowa:

Gallo-Chasanoff, whose story was first reported in the campus newspaper, said what happened was simple: She said a senior Clinton staffer

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Eric Florack on November 13th, 2007

CBS is now saying that Hillary Clinton’s lead is not there, anymore in Iowa:

In Iowa, the Democratic contest is knotted up. Among likely caucus-goers, Clinton came out on top with 25 percent support, but she was trailed closely by

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Eric Florack on November 13th, 2007

For the third time in the last two days, the website of The New Republic has come out with a decidedly “Democrat-Unfreindly” article. Here, we have one from Jon Cohn, questioning the wisdom of government healthcare, as an example.

And

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Eric Florack on November 13th, 2007

HOUMA, La. (AP) — A white state lawmaker in a runoff election called a black civil-rights veteran who had helped her campaign “Buckwheat,” prompting the NAACP to urge voters to kick her out of office.Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez, a Democrat,

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davidl on November 13th, 2007

Mike Allen, Politico, reports on Howard Dean’s latest gaff:

In another statement likely to stir debate among the evangelical Christians his party is urgently trying to court, Dean also asserted “there are no bars to heaven for anybody,” according

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