Eric Florack on July 30th, 2008

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has changed his story and admits that FOX News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly never received talking points from the White House.

On Friday, McClellan said on MSNBC that FOX News commentators would receive White

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Eric Florack on July 30th, 2008

Not sure what to make of thisreport from Fox News:

An aide to Sen. Jim Webb was found dead from a gunshot wound Tuesday morning, the Virginia Democrat’s office confirmed to FOX News on Wednesday.

Frederick Wayne Hutchins Jr., 26,

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  • A second place at the OTB Sheep Off caption contest.
  • So, the Democrats are almost to a man, includng Obama, claiming that the Surge didn’t work. So why, then, is Obama proposing another surge, this time in Afghanistan?

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Eric Florack on July 29th, 2008

WASHINGTON — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens allegedly made false statements to cover up gifts given to him by an oil contractor seeking his help on Capitol Hill, according to a seven-count federal indictment unveiled Tuesday.

Stevens, 84, is the longest-serving

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Eric Florack on July 29th, 2008

So, now, it starts. You knew it hadda happen. Once we saw this business in Knoxville, you just knew the left was going to attach itself to the happening like a vampire bat. All the liberal hotbuttons are there

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Eric Florack on July 28th, 2008
  • Yeah, I was out all weekend. So, we made the trip over the weekend, to Fair Haven State Park, which is one of the best in the state. There’s a problem, though with the state Reservation system for their campgrounds;

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Eric Florack on July 28th, 2008

One of the biggist liabilities that Barack Obama has, is the people who are already going to vote for him.  A case in point shows up in the Rocky Mountain News this morning, in an article by Daniel J. Chacon:

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davidl on July 27th, 2008

Dirty Harry Reid, and his eco-freak friends, don’t like oil and they don’t like us producing our own oil.   Dirty Harry would have us conserve out way out of current mess.  James Hamilton, Econobrowser, has posted a  long, detailed

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YetAnotherJohn on July 26th, 2008

Why does the left block US energy development? The answer is their value system is different from the mainstream of the country. But the left’s blocking energy development costs all of us.

Case in point. Do you know how much

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  • I managed to catch a first place this week at OTB’s Caption Contest.
  • for the last week or so, we’ve brought up John Edwards and his scandal. Kaus has been watching this for a while too, all credit to

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davidl on May 29th, 2008

Mark I, Redstate, has BO’s newest line on Iraq:

The real story here is that Obama has no interest in what is really happening in Iraq, unless it fits his predetermined view that the war is lost. The message

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davidl on May 28th, 2008

1952, Dwight David Eisenhower:

“I will go to Korea,”

Ike went to Korea.  The fighting stopped.

2008, Barack Hussien Obama, rejects John McCain’s proposal that they both go to Iran, From the BO campaign, via Jim Geraghty, National Review.

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