Eric Florack on June 24th, 2007

And so we go, dear friends, once more into the breach, to that bastion of fair play and common sense, the Huffington post, wherein we find…

So now we’re six and a half years into Bush and everyone from

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davidl on June 24th, 2007

Barack ObamaOh what a losing canidate will do when he gets desparate. Earlier this month I commented, a plain ordinary comment, on Barack Obama’s poor attempt to play the race card.   Having misplayed the race card, Obama now proceeds to misplay

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davidl on June 23rd, 2007

Michael Moore

I’m not noted for agreeing with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA), but when you’re riight, you’re right.  PETA is right:

there’s an elephant in the room, and it is you. With all due respect, no one can help

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Eric Florack on June 23rd, 2007

Glenn Reynolds says:

IN THE MAIL: Col. Buzz Patterson’s War Crimes: The Left’s Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror.

I don’t think that the left wants to lose the war on terror, exactly — they

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Eric Florack on June 23rd, 2007

TV station WRAL is saying:

Defense attorneys for three Duke lacrosse players are expected to file a motion Friday asking a judge to enter criminal sanctions against disbarred Durham prosecutor Mike Nifong.

Nifong was disbarred June 16 by a State

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Eric Florack on June 22nd, 2007

Admittedly, it’s a slow news day, and therefore, around here a slow blogging day…  And this is the kind of story, that pops up on such a day is this, as if to save us from ourselves.  It’s too bad

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Eric Florack on June 21st, 2007

WASHINGTON —AP-  A federal judge on Thursday upheld former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry’s probation in a criminal tax case, meaning the longtime politician will avoid the possibility of prison.

Barry, 71, and now on the D.C. Council, pleaded

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davidl on June 21st, 2007

Cost is a function of supply versus demand.   The Senate democrat energy biil literally does nothing to increse the supply of energy.  However the bill has specific plans to disincentive energy production.  From the Hill:

“These guys made whatever

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Eric Florack on June 21st, 2007

I mean, didn’t he die recently?

Democrats, I’ll bet, would wish so. The Politico’s Roger Simon notes:

Ralph Nader says he is seriously considering running for president in 2008 because he foresees another Tweedledum-Tweedledee election that offers little real choice

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Eric Florack on June 21st, 2007

Uh-oh. How to explain this?

Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.

This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973.  The previous

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davidl on June 20th, 2007

If Glenn Greenwald had but one problem, that problem is that Greenwald is either unable or unwilling to distinguish between those who trying to kill us, the jihadists, and those who are not.

In Greenwald’s bllind state, he attempts to

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2007

Yesterday, I made a comment with regards to the culpability of Jimmy Carter as regards our current troubles with Iran.  As you may imagine I managed to get some email commentary on that charge.  For the most part, the mails

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2007

I suppose that I should expect logical disconnects from Kevin Drum as simply being part of the game.  Part of the package.  Example:

It’s true that I wish Michael Moore were a wee bit more scrupulous with the facts in

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Eric Florack on June 19th, 2007

One of the best indications that your foreign policy is on track, is when Jimmy Carter complains loudly about it.  Such is the case, with his latest tirade:

carter-peanut.jpgThe United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy

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Eric Florack on June 19th, 2007

An interesting interview of James Pierson at NRO today. Here’s a snip:

James PiersonJAMES PIERSON: Kennedy’s assassination, happening the way it did, compromised the central assumptions of American liberalism that had been the governing philosophy of the nation since the time

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