Eric Florack on April 9th, 2008

So, Jimmy Carter is going to Syria to meet with Hamas?

Cute.

Does anyone remember how there was a little nonsense form the Democrats who were spreading the SR71 Blackbird rumor? Where GHW Bush had suppsoedly gone to Iran

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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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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 5th, 2008

MISSOULA, Mont. — On the air, Ed Schultz, a liberal talk show host based in Fargo, N.D., is well-known for his blunt criticisms of the Bush Administration and the Republican Party. But Mr. Schultz, a fervent supporter of Senator Barack

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Eric Florack on March 31st, 2008

OK, I’ve gotta give Joe Lieberman credit. From Time this morning:

Well, I say that the Democratic Party changed. The Democratic Party today was not the party it was in 2000. It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2008

Hume, on Friday: 

The left-wing blog Think Progress has had to eat its words after claiming presidential candidate John McCain plagiarized.

An entry posted Thursday – under the heading “Corrupt Establishments” – claims that McCain lifted parts of a speech

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2008

From the Telegraph, today:

Plans for Al Gore to take the Democratic presidential nomination as the saviour of a bitterly divided party are being actively discussed by senior figures and aides to the former vice-president.

The bloody civil war

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davidl on March 28th, 2008

It still seems a long shot, but could Rudi Guiliani still make to the White House, in 2013?    New York has been a stepping stone for governors aspiring to become president, both Roosevelt’s,  Thomas Dewey, and even George Pataki.    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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Eric Florack on March 27th, 2008

A note from Pollster.com’s Mark Blumenthal gives us some indication of those numbers I mentioned yesterdayl, about hom many Democrats would vote McCain, if their boy didn’t win. (Yes, I mean Hillary, too)

Some Context on the Democratic Defectors

Brian

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Eric Florack on March 27th, 2008

Jackie Calmes at the Wall Street Journal:

WASHINGTON — The racially charged debate over Barack Obama’s relationship with his longtime pastor hasn’t much changed his close contest against Hillary Clinton, or hurt him against Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain, according to

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A not unexpected development, from Gallup, whose Frank Newport says:

A sizable proportion of Democrats would vote for John McCain next November if he is matched against the candidate they do not support for the Democratic nomination. This is

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ABC’s Jen Parker at Political Punch:

l just spoke with a Democratic Party official, who asked for anonymity so as to speak candidly, who said we in the media are all missing the point of this Democratic fight.

The delegate

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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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