davidl on January 2nd, 2012

Janet Shan, Hinterland Gazette:

Gun sales surge in U.S. for Christmas. According to the FBI, over 1.5 million background checks on customers were requested by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in December, the UK

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Eric Florack on June 13th, 2011

Wesbury, Long Island, NY– I’m here at one of my regular stops. I ran down to Carlisle, PA to pick this load up, and ran it here this morning AT the moment, I’m waiting to get unloaded so I can

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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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davidl on March 28th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

Obama Care breeds the World’s fastest chickens.William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Obamacare’s Chickens Coming Home To Roost Already

Numerous companies already have announced enormous financial write-downs related to Obamacare’s cutback of subsidies for prescription drug benefit programs for

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on February 19th, 2010

Medical MarijuanaIn my years as a youngster I never thought that we would be seriously discussing whether Marijuana should be considered either for medicinal or recreational usage.  And as a conservative, I would have never thought that we would need to

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Eric Florack on February 2nd, 2010

Well as you know I made it in @ HO Wolding in Wisc last night.

I’m really glad they didn’t figure on my doing anything but falling over because I did exactly that.

Woke up at about 4:30 local.  My

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Eric Florack on June 25th, 2009

nashnightlyrambleWelcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read wnywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the “Beep Beep” Edition. If you don’t get the reference, look here.

  • The Obamacare Telethon:  No, I didn’t bother watching

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Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the “Change the oil, rotate the Tires” Edition

  • Men are from Mars and Earth Girls are Easy… or something: John

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Doctor Tim Ball, Canada Free Press:

The Issue

The US Congress is currently discussing the Obama climate change strategy and Cap and Trade. One part of the plan says, “Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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Eric Florack on March 25th, 2009

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

einstien-rambleThis is the ‘Gee, you’re smart” edition.

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Welcome dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

  • Yeah, yeah, yeah… I know, Colin Powell. All the rage over the weekend. I don’t think there’s much argument against the idea that there’s a

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Eric Florack on May 7th, 2008

NEW YORK —(AP via Fox)- A sadistic gang of police impersonators abducted and tortured scores of East Coast cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multimillion-dollar stashes by threatening to squeeze their testicles with pliers, authorities said Tuesday.An indictment unsealed

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