Eric Florack on October 5th, 2009

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davidl on September 1st, 2009

spitzer2.jpgSay what you will about Client Number Nine, a/k/a Eliot Spiter, b/k/a disgraced former governor of New York, he is not a brave man.   Maggie Haberman, New York Post:

Less than 18 months after he left Albany in a

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davidl on July 12th, 2009

Barack Obama the Gaze

From the New York Post.   The parents of Mayara Rodrigues Tavares, pictured in the red dress above, are just a wee bit upset about how their daughter is being depicted.    Her mother, Lucia Rodrigues:

“Why are they looking at

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Eric Florack on March 10th, 2009

The New York Post, last night, put up some interesting analysis as regards what is behind this business between the President and the British. In it, Arthur Herman does some serious analysis on what is driving this animosity toward

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Eric Florack on March 5th, 2009

The New York Post, today:

There was Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, boldly testifying Tuesday before Rep. Charlie Rangel‘s Ways & Means Committee – promising that the Obama administration intends to propose “a series of legislative and enforcement measures to

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davidl on February 19th, 2009

Background, on Monday, February 16, police in Stamford, Connecticut shot and killed a two hundred pound pet chimpanzee.    The victim of the chimpanzee attack, Charla Nash, suffered major wounds and is still hopitalized.    We hope  that Nash can recover

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Caroline Kennedy speaks at the Barack Obama rally at UCLAFred Dicker at :The New York Post:

Caroline Kennedy last night withdrew from consideration to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton – just two months after she rocked the New York political landscape by throwing her hat in the

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Eric Florack on December 23rd, 2008

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rambletreefarm1 Lot’s of last minute stuff to get in before the holiday. Let’s get to it.

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A fairly quiet couple of day around these parts…. not unexpected, given the post election lull. Still, that doesn’t mean that all is

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Eric Florack on October 27th, 2008

Joe the Plumber. You remember the story. Obama rolls up to his house one day. Joe plucks up his courage and asks a question of Barack Obama, the subject of which Mr. Obama would apparently rather not discuss. Result? 

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  • Yeah, yeah, yeah… I know, Colin Powell. All the rage over the weekend. I don’t think there’s much argument against the idea that there’s a

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Eric Florack on September 30th, 2008

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  • Leaving aside the issue of the Republicans who bolted off the bailout plan yesterday, changing their vote from ‘yes’ to ‘no’, (I’ll get back to

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Lots to cover today, as always and as dictated by events, most of it to do with the bailout which at this point (About

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davidl on September 12th, 2008

Bit rambled:

I’ve not seen it yet, but I gather the interview with Palin and Gibson went pretty well.  From the clips one gets the impression that Gibson was a little on the stiff side.  Here’s some of it.

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Eric Florack on June 5th, 2008

From the New York Post today:

Of course, with his wealth and power, Kennedy would get good treatment anywhere. But the same care is available to every American.

Not so – if we make the health “reforms” called for

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