davidl on February 15th, 2009

Ellen Goodman, Seattle Times:

In the winter of our economic discontent, women now hold more than 49 percent of jobs on the nation’s payrolls. If we cross the 50 percent line — hold the applause — it will be

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davidl on December 26th, 2008

I doubt it was Mrs. Schlossberg’s intent, but Caroline Kennedy has admited her lack of qualifications to be senator,  Larry Neumeister, Associated Press

Caroline Kennedy told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that she knows she will have to

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Eric Florack on November 29th, 2008

To a conservative, anyone who advocates building an ideal society by the use of reason-based theories is a ‘Utopian liberal’ because following Burke and Russel Kirk they do not believe in the unlimited power of reason.
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Some of Clark’s

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Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere.. Bit’sBlog’s Nightly Ramble

Hope your weekend was a good one. We’ve got lots of ground to cover, so let’s get to this.

  • Barack Hussein Obama and George

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Welcome dear reader to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere.. The Nightly Ramble.

  • Less than a week away from the election and Obama is still losing ground. The trend has continued over the last few weeks to

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Eric Florack on October 27th, 2008

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

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Ya know, I can’t help thinking on Billy Beck as I read Mark Levin this morning:

I’ve been thinking this for a while so I might as well air it here. I honestly never thought we’d see such a thing

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Eric Florack on August 3rd, 2008

Back along about the end of 2006, during a  Christmas break, I wrote an extended piece about Islam and some of the problems in the world with relation to it. I’ll post it here, because I think it’;s ideas are

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davidl on July 30th, 2008

Bit rambled:

Obama. Reparations. ‘Nuff said.

Not quite enough.   Speaking at the UNITY ’08 conventionb, BO said, Laurie Au, Star-Bulletin, Honolulu:

“There’s no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2008

Billy makes a great point this morning:

I don’t know why people keep referring to what’s going on with energy as a “market” while it’s stepped on by government every mile of the way from the field to your tank,

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  • Look, Billy, I’m somewhat sympathetic to the argument, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that they went to this place with the specific goal in mind of pissing off the constabulary. To what end? Don’t tell me

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  • That’s OK, Jon. Tell ya what; Greenwald can claim I’m pro-torture, if he likes… because under some conditions I am. .. and for all the moralizing that’s been thrown at the issue, nobody’s ever come up with an even

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  • Is there life in Ipse Dixit? It’s moving for the first time in recent memory, and was noticed by a feed I apparently didn’t remember to turn off, years ago.
  • Ah, yes, the typical ploy… if you can’t convince

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On both sides of the pond, concerned parents complain about books targeting school children which promote willful homosexual behavior, as if it were  normal.   The parents complain and  the school boards ignore. 

Now good news, Mike Pechar, Jawa Report,

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  • First, I’m pleased to announce, and recognize, that Right Wing News has honored us yet again, with an Honorable Mention, as a part of their Favorite Bloggers for 2008. I see Fellow Swamp Stomper Sister Toldjah is also on that

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