Eric Florack on November 7th, 2007

My reaction? Yeah, right, whatever.

WASHINGTON —Fox- Evangelical Christian leader Pat Robertson on Wednesday endorsed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has struggled to bridge with conservatives some of his socially moderate policy positions on abortion and gay rights.

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Eric Florack on November 7th, 2007

Alan Dershowitz, guesting at the WSJ today:

dershowitz.jpg Consider, for example, the contentious and emotionally laden issue of the use of torture in securing preventive intelligence information about imminent acts of terrorism–the so-called “ticking bomb” scenario. I am not now talking

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Eric Florack on November 7th, 2007

Captain Ed notes, , the Mukasey vote, yesterday:

The Senate Judiciary Panel reported Michael Mukasey’s nomination to the full Senate today, recommending confirmation by an 11-8 vote. Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein voted to support , as announced earlier,

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Eric Florack on November 6th, 2007

Just a thought;

I’ve been watching the business with the script writer’s strike out in Hollywood, with some amaze. The first thing to see problems of course, as this cracks up, is the monologues for the late shows… Letterman, Leno,

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2007

I was interested to see Blue Crab Blvd commenting on the possibility of Rosie O’Donnel showing up at MS-NBC:

The Melted Steely Knoll Troll and the Mouth That Roared Lies together at last. Obviously, MSNBC is trying to corner the

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2007

Billy Beck makes a point that I made yesterday:

Doug Mataconis links and quotes Radley Balko on the latest rumblings among the savages:

This is why ‘spreading democracy’ is such a foolish foreign policy objective. There are lots

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2007

David Kopel at Volokh 

Earlier this week, Sen. Fred Thompson wrote to Field & Stream magazine, criticizing the UN’s campaign against the human right of self-defense. The Thompson campaign touted the letter on its website, and the letter got a

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Eric Florack on November 3rd, 2007

Rich Lowry has an interesting article on Real Clear Politics by way of Memeorandum:

Would someone be fit to be attorney general of the United States if he had once said, “I think there are probably very few people in

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Eric Florack on November 1st, 2007

John Harris over at the Politico:

Congressional Democrats certainly know the power of a throw-the-bums-out message. It vaulted them to power a year ago this week. Little wonder anxiety is boiling over inside the new majority as lawmakers ponder a

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Eric Florack on October 31st, 2007

Boortz yesterday, picked up in mid-description…

It seems that this person focus right now is in helping this sector of our economy avoid unionization. Unions are, apparently, hot to organize senior living facilities. OK .. so there’s no surprise there

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

Look, let’s call this what it is:

Saying that Glen Greenwald is a drooling, lying, sock puppeting idiot, is not a political statement.  Provacative, perhaps, and arguably correct, but it’s not political.
And that goes for Greg

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Eric Florack on October 25th, 2007

I have been saying for years that the fight over health care and who runs it was a financial battle.  No, not a financial battle for the “little guy”.  Just a couple of big ones. Michelle Malkin reports on one

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Eric Florack on October 25th, 2007

I’m just curious;

Can it be that the reason that the legality of the “candidacy” of Stephen Colbert for the presidency of these United States is being challenged is because of the embarrassment involved with the concept of him actually

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The L.A. Times this morning is reporting we’re dealing with cases of arson :

Amid worries of new blazes adding to the firestorm already afflicting the region, a man in Hesperia has been arrested on suspicion of arson, and police

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Eric Florack on October 13th, 2007

McQ notes that the Jenna six are back in jail.

He points up an AP article:

A judge decided the fight that thrust a teenager into the center of a civil rights controversy violated his probation for a previous conviction

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