Eric Florack on April 6th, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.

A growing work force

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davidl on March 25th, 2008

Some leftards  have their knickers in twist over the Williams Kristol piece in the New York Times in which he declared that racism was not a problem and he rather not have discussion about it:

With respect to having a

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The New York Times is finally catching on to what we mere mortals already know just on the look of the thing:

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was deeply involved in his administration’s efforts last year to discredit the State Senate

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Eric Florack on March 23rd, 2008

Paul Berman in today’s New York Times admits he’s under-estimated Radical Islam… which of course is as we’ve pointed out here before, not quite the case.

…each new calamity for Iraq has, like manure, lent new fertility to the various

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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 18th, 2008

Another morning in New York.  Another governor.  David Paterson was sworn in yesterday.  And oh  by the way, another sex scandal.   Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News:

The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state’s

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  • Rumor control: McCain doesn’t have cancer. The Times, of course is making lots of noise about not being given McCain’s medical records, yet. The funny part of the story is, they’re still waiting for the health records of Bill Clinton,

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Eric Florack on March 11th, 2008

There’s a number of people in the sphere saying if the sex is the extent of the crime, that Spitzer shouldn’t resign. However that may be, it’s not just the sex. Apparently the feds were looking at many, many investments

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davidl on March 10th, 2008

Eliot SpitzerEliot Spitzer, a.k.a. the Sheriff  of Wall Street,  has reportedly been linked, AP, video. New York Times,  to  involvement in a prostitution ring.

Hat tip:  Michelle Malkin.

Bye-bye Eliot.

Addendum I: (Bit)

And there it is,

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Eric Florack on March 7th, 2008

You will doubtless recall Hillary’s “Daisy” ad, where she raises the question about who is going to answer that 3am phone call.  Obama released a response ad last week, too.

But in a rare bit of honesty, the New

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davidl on March 6th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleCandidates is glass houses, the Obama campaign on the Clintons’  campaign, via MSNBC:

“As it relates to ethics and transparency,” Plouffe said, “we’re surprised that they would want to have an extended conversation about contributors and land deals and

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Eric Florack on February 28th, 2008

Why do I get the feeling that there’s desperation where McCain is concerned? The New York Times, this monring:

WASHINGTON – The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare

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davidl on February 28th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleMaybe it was the fault of the building?

(CNN) — The building where a gunman killed five people at Northern Illinois University two weeks ago will be demolished, state officials said Wednesday

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s office confirmed

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Eric Florack on February 27th, 2008

Jonah Goldberg, whose book I have really got to sit down and read, remarks yesterday:

‘Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.”

This excerpt from William Ayers’ memoir appeared in the New York Times on

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