Eric Florack on April 14th, 2008

Yeah, maybe.

I think I’ve found a theme that I like the look of, and at first blush doesn’t look like it’ll take forever to write our stuff to. The look is a little cleaner, though it’ll take some work

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davidl on April 13th, 2008

My googling shows 642 bar & grills near Ann Arbor, Michigan.   So I find the amount of research required by E.M. to make this statement, staggering:

We noticed, quite casually, that the only place around us that actually uses Absolut

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Eric Florack on April 13th, 2008

I’ve added another feed today, and it’s a biggie; It’s the news feed from Google, and from the news services it in turn subscribes to… all updated in real time. Strictly headlines at the moment, that you can click through

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Greg Sargent at TPM, yesterday:

Hillary chief strategist Geoffrey Garin dramatically raised the stakes in the battle over Barack Obama’s comments about small-town America, saying in an interview that they would be “damaging” to him in a general election, could

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Eric Florack on April 13th, 2008

Austin Bay, who I quote far too little:

Realclearpolitics.com featured last week’s Creators Syndicate newspaper column and the gents at Powerline commented. As the column attests, I saw the Basra and east Baghdad counter-militia operations very differently from the

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davidl on April 13th, 2008

Mrs. William ClintonIs Mrs. Clinton a staunch defender of individual freedom, or she merely a shriveling hoplophobe?    Well it depends on whose vote she is seeking.

In the previous century while seeking a Senate seat in hoplophobic New York State, Mrs. Clinton

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Was Pelosi committing Treason?There’s a lot to this story, that I’m not quite sure how to tap into. But let me attempt to lay this out properly, by first reminding you of our post earlier this week, as regards Jimmy Carter, and his

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davidl on April 12th, 2008

Barack ObamaBarack Obama, speaking to donors in San Francisco:

But – so the questions you’re most likely to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What’s the concrete thing?’ What they wanna hear is –

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  • That’s OK, Jon. Tell ya what; Greenwald can claim I’m pro-torture, if he likes… because under some conditions I am. .. and for all the moralizing that’s been thrown at the issue, nobody’s ever come up with an even

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davidl on April 11th, 2008

Mr. and Mrs. ClintonYou got to admit one thing about the Clintons.  They are persistent.   If their lies get exposed, they still keep on telling them.   In fact, Jake Tapper, ABC News, goes so far as to footnote, B.J.’s continuing lies about

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Eric Florack on April 11th, 2008

The much talked about “oil for food’ program had it’s share of problems. Corruption, mostly. Not to be wondered at, give we’re dealing with the UN there. But apparently, trying to exchange food for oil isn’t much better, as James

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Eric Florack on April 11th, 2008

NBC tried serving up Keith Olbermann in prime time. The attempt failed… Miserably.
Newsbusters:

On Sunday, NewsBusters asked readers, “Will NBC Succeed in Making Olbermann Mainstream?”

70 percent of respondents said, “No, he’s too crazy.”

Well, Nielsen ratings of

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  • Look, I for one could care less about The Perky One, unless she wants to appear on ‘The Nude News”…(Just so I can see how far that perkiness extends, mind) But this bit with her and CBS was doomed

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davidl on April 10th, 2008

George A Follow up to  Bit’s comments on Jay Rockefeller‘s, slander of the American Fighting Man,  such lies should never go unanswered.  In that spirit, the Charleston Daily Mail, runs a column by Bud Day, Knox Nunnally,

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Eric Florack on April 10th, 2008

Hume, last night:

The man who is about to become the United Nations’ lead investigator into Israeli conduct is standing by his comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis. Richard Falk will begin his job

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