davidl on March 18th, 2009

President Obama is mulling declaring war on wounded veterans, David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers:

WASHINGTON-The Obama administration is considering making veterans use private insurance to pay for treatment of combat and service-related injuries. The plan would be an about-face on

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Eric Florack on March 18th, 2009

ramble-blackbillWelcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere: The BigsBlog Nightly Ramble.

This is the Black Sign Edition. Mostly because I’m running out of names.

 

  • Memo to Chuckles the Clown Schumer:

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Eric Florack on March 18th, 2009

By way of Bruce McQuain, who you will recall, I was a little harsh with last week on the AIG thing, comes this news:

The other shoe concerning the AIG “bonuses” and the administration’s knowledge of them is beginning

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Eric Florack on March 13th, 2009

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This is the “Mirror Image” edition.  I got to thinking; What would happen if I started applying the website CSS to other objects? This

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Eric Florack on March 13th, 2009

I tossed this out at Q&O, almost as a throwaway. But the more I consider things, I wonder if I’ve not hit on something central. I’ve cleaned it up here a bit, since it was originally composed and posted

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davidl on March 13th, 2009

Barack "BO" Obama (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License)It has become quite obvious why Barack Obama has never released his college transcripts.   Obama is dumber than a hod of bricks, Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers:

WASHINGTON – The deepening recession is taking a slight toll on President Barack

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Eric Florack on March 12th, 2009

Mark Hemingway at The Corner:

I was perusing an old column by Kevin Rennie, the former Connecticut state legislator that broke the cottage story, and noticed this interesting tidbit:

During the fourth quarter of 2008, Dodd’s Senate re-election campaign

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Eric Florack on March 12th, 2009

James Joyner at OTB:

 

The big story at memeorandum is a report by MinnPost‘s Eric Black, passed on by Raw Story‘s Muriel Kane, that Dick Cheney ran a super secret assassination ring out of his office.

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Eric Florack on March 3rd, 2009

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… to be used only for hand to hand combat…Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

This is the “More Snow” edition. ramble-barbaitboat Scientists agree that reading these daily updates…

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Eric Florack on February 25th, 2009

OK, I know that by now a lot of you either saw or read though this speech of Obama’s, and so it’s old news. But I’ve seen nobody rip through this thing point by point. I can understand why… with

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Eric Florack on February 20th, 2009

As I said earlier this morning:

 I can’t help but wonder if we aren’t at or beyond a tipping point  against Obama and the Democrats… even from people who supported their election. The amazing part is,  whereas it took Bill

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With all the attention being placed on the story out of Buffalo about the beheading of Aasiya Z. Hassan the other day,  I’ve been watching the Buffalo outlets a bit more closely.  This morning, I note this story from yesterday

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Eric Florack on February 17th, 2009

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere the ever more popular BitsBlog Nightly Ramble, the “Keep on Ramblin'” edition.

 

  • The hound the Wold and the Sheep deciding what to ahve for lunch: By

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Eric Florack on February 13th, 2009

Word from just west of Casa de Bit:

Clarence, NY (WBEN) — 49 people died late Thursday in the crash of a Continental plane in Clarence Center. WBEN Reporters Barbara Burns and Tom Puckett were both on scene as they

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Eric Florack on February 10th, 2009

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Obama’s press conference. What can be said? Nothing, and yet everything. It’s a target rich environment, as I said this monring, and

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