Martin Luther King, Jr.Preface,  I neither deify nor demonize Martin Luther King, Jr.    King was certainly a very important figure in our nation’s history, but no where near important as liberal myth demands    King was not the single most important person in

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Eric Florack on February 22nd, 2008

“Xerox” isn’t a noun.

Addendum: (David L)

How can do many media sources get a one line quote so wrong?  Lots of practice I quess, via CNN:

And, you know, lifting whole passages from someone else’s speeches is not

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Eric Florack on February 6th, 2008

Move America Forward – www.MoveAmericaForward.org – is calling on patriotic Americans from near and far to come to Berkeley, California and join us for a protest of the Berkeley City Council – in response to their recent efforts to silence

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Eric Florack on January 27th, 2008

Billy:

 It’s wonderful to see Field Marshal Rodham getting kicked in the teeth in South Carolina. What’s awful is the hysteria surrounding Obama.

I keep thinking about Martin Luther King’s admonition on the content of character. There is an

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davidl on January 21st, 2008

The early returns from the Martin Luther King Day debate in South Carolina are in.   Mrs. Clinton and Barack Obama attack each other with dead fish.    Wolf  Blitzer and John Edwards are also present, somewhere.

Partial transcript, via Ben Smith,

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  • Seen in a truck window: How good can any campaign finance reform be, that still lets John McCain in as President?
  • I use Bloglines. Used it for years and consider it part of my daily routine. They’ve got a new

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Eric Florack on January 15th, 2008

I can’t imagine that she figured on this:

 NEW YORK, N.Y. —The Politico- Dogged by continuing racial tensions around her presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton drew a smattering of boos on Monday when she spoke at a religiously tinged Martin

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Ben Smith over at the Politico notes that there’s been a lot the last 48 or so over charges of racism:

A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial

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davidl on January 10th, 2008

On the eve of Doctor Martin Luther King Day,  I pose a question.   Does socioloigical change come from outside or within?   I suggest the latter.   True change comes from self-examination and then rejection.  

So did mainstream culture change due to

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Ron Paul, as you may know…particularly if you’ve been reading here, was on Meet the Press yesterday. Now I doubtless will be getting reaction from the Paulettes, as I do every freakin’ time I bring the subject up…. reaction not

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Eric Florack on November 11th, 2007

Poor Paul Krugman...

So there’s a campaign on to exonerate Ronald Reagan from the charge that he deliberately made use of Nixon’s Southern strategy. When he went to Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1980, the town where the civil rights workers

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davidl on November 9th, 2007

Note the author of this post was in a somewhat vile mood this morning.   Alas. 

I am impressed.  Two black men quote Dr. Martin Luther King.    Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint in Christian Science Monitor:

Martin Luther

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