Eric Florack on October 27th, 2007

The Carpetbagger must have thought they had something when they came up with this one.

The St. Petersburg Times reported this week that WellCare Health Plans, a Florida-based company that provides managed-care plans for millions of Medicare and Medicaid participants,

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davidl on October 26th, 2007
  1. Ron PaulI do not question Ron Paul’s patriotism.  Rather, I have questioned Paul’s sanity, or lack thereof same.   Lone Star Times,  report Paul is taking campaign contributions from neo-nazis:

A LoneStarTimes.com investigation has conclusively established that a leading figure

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Eric Florack on October 26th, 2007

Democrats are losing the battle for voters’ hearts because the party’s message lacks emotional appeal, according to a widely circulated critique of House Democratic communications strategy.

“Our message sounds like an audit report on defense

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Eric Florack on October 25th, 2007

That site that Israel bombed, was apparently correctly identified in the news reports that we all saw last evening.  This is a before and after shot:

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As to the official reaction of Syria, Bruce McQuain makes an excellent point:

Seems

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Eric Florack on October 25th, 2007

I think it amazing that this Scott Beauchamp story has been met with such stony silence from the mainstream media.  It has only been twelve hours now or so since the story came out that documents and transcripts of phone

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Eric Florack on October 24th, 2007

Allah says, under a headline reading:

Wildfire victims getting what’s coming to them, says Carlin

No need for grandiose outrage here. He’s been saying stuff like this for decades. In fact it’s a core part of his act, which is

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davidl on October 23rd, 2007

hillarysm.jpgThe participants in  Frank Luntz’s focus republican debate group did not agree on much, but the all agreed on Mrs. Clinton.

 Jim Addison, Wizbang Poltics:

The Frank Luntz focus group for the Orlando Republican Presidential debate revealed the best

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Eric Florack on October 21st, 2007

Sherman Fredrick in the Las Vegas Review Journal:

 

The political headline of last week, “Reid’s popularity falls among Nevadans,” wasn’t all that surprising. Nevada‘s never been particularly wild about Harry Reid. But he’s always managed to cobble

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Eric Florack on October 19th, 2007

Here we go again, with the Chinese donors, to the Clinton campaign.  The LA Times… Hardly a bastion of right wing philosophy, that…

Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for

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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

Continue reading about Analysys Without Humor is Like Music Without Soul.  And This Guy Doesn’t have Either. 

Megan McArdle yesterday noting the story that we talked about here today,  and the press refuses to talk about at all;

 Thanks to George Bush’s amazing deficit reduction plan, the budget deficit is now only 1.2% of GDP. If

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

A thoughtful, caring post from RightWingDuck at IMAO today:

Ms. Rhodes was doing nothing wrong at the time except walking her dog. Many on the left are saying that this could not possibly be random. I agree, nothing is out

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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 16th, 2007

Geraldo Rivera, we’ve commented on, many times, here. Suffice it to say he’s not the most popular person, here.  Similarly, Bill O’Reilly.  As for the combination, I’ve always considered that there wasn’t a half a human between them. 

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Eric Florack on October 15th, 2007

By way of Memorandum, I see a New York Times article from Richard Perez-Pena:

Paul E. Steiger, who was the top editor of The Wall Street Journal for 16 years, and a pair of wealthy Californians are assembling a

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