davidl on December 30th, 2007

Recently the Puffington Post published this item:

Wiliam KristolThe Huffington Post has learned that, in a move bound to create controversy, the New York Times is set to announce that Bill Kristol will become a weekly columnist in 2008. Kristol, a

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davidl on December 28th, 2007

One person,  Benazir Bhutto, one death, two Posts, Washington and New York  and two completely different takes.  

David Ignatius, Washington Post, came to laud the late Benazir Bhutto, via RCP:

Try to imagine a young Pakistani woman bounding

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davidl on December 27th, 2007

Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post, fights to keep his Rolodex relevant, and explores the issue of the Reverend Al Sharpton’s relevance:

Al Sharpton

Sharpton has “been eclipsed, because Obama puts guys like Sharpton in the shadow,” said Fred Siegel, a historian

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Eric Florack on December 26th, 2007

Michael S. Barr in The New York Times, today:

WHILE the causes of the mortgage crisis are myriad, a central problem was that many borrowers took out loans that they did not understand and could not afford.

Yep. But what

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Economically speaking, this Christmas season wasn’t bad.

Glenn notes today:

CHRISTMAS RETAIL SALES UP, BUT BY A MODEST 3.6% — but online sales were up 22.4%. The New York Times calls those numbers “bleak,” a term that’s more accurately used

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Eric Florack on December 25th, 2007

To say it’s a slow political day, this Christmas Day, is understating it by several factors of scale.  Example… When I see CNN’s political ticker, by way of Memeorandum pointing out that President Bush gave his wife a purse for

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davidl on December 25th, 2007

Ron Paul, grade A screwball

Is Ron Paul a nazi?   Well some of Paul’s well embraced supporters are.   Virginia Heffernan, New York Times,  describes Paul’s “nazi  troubles:

Ron Paul, our Internet president, seems to have Nazi troubles, as in they’re saying he’s

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Eric Florack on December 21st, 2007

Just weeks away from a possible surprise victory in the primaries, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz has been waging a ferocious behind the scenes battle with the NEW YORK TIMES, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, and has hired

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Eric Florack on December 20th, 2007

Time Magazine  continues to dig a deeper hole. Hume last night:

Putin Up a Fight

The naming of Russian President Vladimir Putin as TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” is drawing some fire from the right.

Dean Barnett of the

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davidl on December 19th, 2007

Two tidbits from National Review:

First, Lisa Schiffren:

Klo — That very silly feminist blog you linked to this morning — where everyone sleeps with their current boyfriend in the first week of dating— (in later threads some claimed

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Eric Florack on December 19th, 2007

I see Drudge teasing a National Enquirer headline about a supposed lovechild scandal involving “John Edward’s Love child”.

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Ummm guys? Let’s remember, first of all, that the National Enquirer is to honest news reporting what the New York Times is

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davidl on December 18th, 2007

Good news and good news from the TV Food Network, more Rachel Ray and less Emeril Lagasse:

Rachel RayNEW YORK (AP) – The Food Network has ordered extra helpings of Rachael Ray. A new prime-time series, “Rachael’s Vacation,”

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Eric Florack on December 18th, 2007

Philly.com:

With a hidden FBI camera rolling inside a New York hotel suite in 2003, an unsuspecting Rev. Al Sharpton, Democratic candidate for president, spoke candidly.

Sharpton offered to help Philadelphia fund-raiser Ronald A. White win a multimillion-dollar business deal,

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Eric Florack on December 18th, 2007

Hume, last night:

Conservative students and faculty at Princeton University are questioning the absence of campus and community outrage — following the beating of a student leading a morality movement at the school. The New York Sun reports Francisco Nava

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davidl on December 17th, 2007

Ok Bitsbog didn’t any blog awards. However I do say we have been consistently right about Mrs. Clinton.  The MSM media just now is catching up to train wreck that is Mrs. Clinton’s campaign which we were on to

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