davidl on April 6th, 2008

Ann Althouse notes liberal discomfort with the John McCain biography tour:

Bill Scher perceives irony in McCain’s ad — which depicts his life story, including his service in Vietnam — because it is “very much about ‘I.'” Scher thinks the

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Eric Florack on April 6th, 2008

Drezner:

Another day, another online article. The topic of my latest Newsweek column is whether the West — i.e., American and Europe — can still act as the global policy leader. I’m not optimistic: America and Europe face political, economic

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davidl on April 6th, 2008

You may now take Mr. Heston’s firearms. Charlton Heston is dead at age 84. The Associated Press offers an ironic headline, “Oscar-winning star of ‘Ben-Hur’ was known for heroic roles:”

LOS ANGELES – Charlton Heston, who won the

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  • I see Presdient Bush is bypassing a lot of laws and regulations to get the southern fence built. Bravo, Presdient Bush, …..on two levels; 1: the fence is actually going to be built. 2: most of these regulations are revealed

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davidl on April 2nd, 2008

So just when does the decision from where to order pizza delivery become a moral question?   When the decision is between a Pizza Hut and pizza business which does not have corporate policy of indifference to the delivery person’s life.   

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Billy notes the story of Hillary Clinton and the Nixon impeachment. This one’s been brewing for quite a while, as Billy notes correctly… and Ed Morrissey confirms in the process of quoting Dan Calabrese:

As Hillary Clinton came under increasing

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  • I wasn’t exactly goig through withdrawal symptoms over the weekend, while the site servers got moved physically… but damned near that. At least a dozen times I saw something that screamed out to be written up for the blog, and

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davidl on March 31st, 2008

Matthew Daneman, writing the the Rochester, NY Democrat and Chronicle:

More than 60 years after cultural icon Rosie the Riveter symbolized women’s emergence in the workplace, the state’s corporate boardrooms and corner offices remain largely a boys-only club.

A

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2008

Yeah, THAT figures.

While this site was offline because of the server move…. (and I must admit the performance appears to be better at first glance) it turns out that WordPress has released a new version, too, and the

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Hume, last night:

The United Nations Human Rights Council was supposed to be better than the old Human Rights Commission, which became famous for bias and hypocrisy. Now the same charge is being leveled at the new body

The council

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Lots of stuff going on over the weekend, not a bit of it earthshaking, or unexpected.

  • Like McQ at Q&O, I find myself watching closely thetrainwreck that is NORK.  You had to know this kind of thing was coming,

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davidl on March 23rd, 2008

Robert Pear in the New York Times:

WASHINGTON – New government research has found “large and growing” disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the last two decades.

So what!

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davidl on March 22nd, 2008

“People will know you by the company you keep,” 

Kyle-Anne Shiver’s grandmother, American Thinker

James Carville, as attributed by  Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny, New York Times:

“Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day

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davidl on March 22nd, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble— and the whore you rode in on, WHEC-TV:

I-Team 10 has learned a Rochester woman plans to sue Monroe County after last month’s chain-reaction pile-up on Interstate 390.

The woman suffered a broken hip, fractured knee and

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Eric Florack on March 21st, 2008

Must be a really slow news day.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department says it is trying to determine whether three contract workers had a political motive for looking at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s passport file.

Two of the

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