Eric Florack on December 7th, 2007

Reynolds:

I HEARD NEAL BOORTZ holding forth on the Omaha mall shooting this morning on the way to work, and I realized I haven’t posted on it. I don’t really have anything to say that I haven’t said before. But

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davidl on December 7th, 2007

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Huckabee: go to a Mormon church. Prove to me that you aren’t a narrow-minded bigot like so many of your supporters seem to be

Rusty Shackleford, Jawa Report

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2007

John Hawkins at Right Wing News quotes a reader at The Corner who mused…

“You know what would really be funny? If Romney declares on Thursday that he has been saved and shows a YouTube clip of his baptism, and

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Don Surber:

WaPo reports 2 pages were dismissed for “public oral sex” and 2 for shoplifting.

Republican Mark Foley’s weird fascination with a congressional page cost Foley his seat in Congress and helped a Democratic takeover of the House.

Drain

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2007

If there is a more annoying person in the world of punditry than Arianna Huffington, I certainly don’t know of it.

The way that Mike Huckabee has handled the furor caused by the Huffington Post’s coverage of his role

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2007

It’s cold up here in the great lakes region.  We’ve been down into the teens most nights, lately.  We caught perhaps 8in. of snow total, so far.  Most of that has retreated.  It’s still a driving issue, if your vehicle

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

Steyn:

Up north, the Canadian Islamic Congress announced the other day that at least two of Canada’s “Human Rights Commissions” – one federal, one provincial – had agreed to hear their complaints that their “human rights” had been breached by

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

As promised, I’ve had the opportunity to look over the Romney “I have a Religion” speech.

As such things go, it wasn’t bad.  Romney  demonstrated a better public speaking ability than I thought he had.  That was my first surprise. 

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

In an Op-Ed in the WaPo today , John Bolton says, in part:

Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week. Rarely has an administration

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Captain Ed, yesterday:

Dan Bartlett, former White House communications director, won’t keep many friends in the blogosphere after this interview in Texas Monthly. When asked about the relationship between the Bush White House and conservative bloggers, Bartlett responded that, in

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Rich Lowry…. who I have some stout dispute on in terms of the Fair Tax issue (It’d help if Rich actually did some research on the matter) gets it pretty much spot on here, as regards the rise of social

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

Canada.com:

Last month, an EKOS Research study for Transport Canada found seven out of 10 Canadians freely admit to exceeding speed limits from time to time, with another 11 per cent copping to speeding “only on highways.” Average speeding margins

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davidl on December 5th, 2007

Is anthropogenic global warming a real problem or just an excuse to party?   Robin McDowell, Associated Press

BALI, Indonesia — Never before have so many people converged to try to save the planet from global warming, with more than

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davidl on December 5th, 2007

Mrs. Wiliam Clinton

Seanna Adcox accuses Mrs. Cliuton’s campaign, in effect, of lying:

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s support from South Carolina’s black religious leaders may not be quite as extensive as her campaign suggests.

Mean

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

Via Memeorandum, I see Jules Critenden suggesting that while Bush Bashing is fun, the Democrats are missing out on what they claim to want… Political progress in Iraq.

In fact, progress, there, is….

 …Incremental, though significantly more progress than, say,

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