Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

I tend to use a lot of older equipment around here.  The fastest server at Casa de Bit is a PII/400 that I’ve cracked up to around 700 or so with some added cooling. The other two are PII/400’s.

I’ve

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Confederate Yankee reminds us that Franklin Foer and the staff at TNR still has yet to pay the price….

It All Comes Down to This.

Does The New Republic have the solid factual evidence to support these stories?

Where's the beef?Did the

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Fifty-one years ago, November 27 was also a Tuesday. I’ve been told that it was a gray and rainy afternoon in Little Rock, Arkansas, but I don’t recall on my own observations, because I was a bit busy being born.

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Robert Bindinotto:

The Muslim world is not fooled by our talk about spreading democracy and values. The evidence is too overwhelming that we do not hesitate to support dictators and install puppet governments when it serves our interests. When democratic

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davidl on November 27th, 2007

I find it interesting that a rumor of Trent Lott having an homosexual; affair is treated as news, albeit for a short time.  Whereas a rumor of Mrs. William Clinton having a homosexual affair is only reported as an ugly

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Boortz, this morning:

Here is the text of an email that was sent to every student at the University of Florida by the vice president for student affairs. Note, please, the hyphenated name. I don’t know about you … but

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

The “Rightosphere Temperature Check For November: Special GOP Primary Edition” is now up at RWN.

John Hawkins says in mail this morning:

 In this poll, right-of-center bloggers ranked the top 5 GOP contenders on everything from electability to fiscal

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

McQ gets into a fairly well detailed examination of our energy policy woes:

We hear (and have heard) political promises to make the US “energy independent” by x number of years coming from all the current presidential candidates. And

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

The echo hadn’t died on Trent Lott‘s resignation announcement, when the left started pushing this “Trent Lott is Gay” rumor.  A little strange that such a rumor should be quashed by HuffPo of all places.

Not very strange

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Glenn Greenwald…

Joe Klein has just posted yet again about his FISA confusion, and it has now moved well beyond farce into an almost pity-inducing realm. If Time has any dignity at all, someone there will intervene and put a

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Eric Florack on November 26th, 2007

Have I mentioned lately, that I miss reading Cathy’s World?

I don’t think I have.

Tonight, I stumbled across  an archive I made of her site a few months ago, thinking they might take it down, and started reading. When

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Eric Florack on November 26th, 2007

Bob Novak:

Who would respond to criticism from the Club for Growth by calling the conservative, free-market campaign organization the “Club for Greed”? That sounds like Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich or John Edwards, all Democrats preaching the class struggle.

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Eric Florack on November 26th, 2007

Word from MSNBC this morning, is that Trent Lott is going to resign very shortly.

Personally, I couldn’t be more pleased.  Here’s the guy that came out in support of Shamnesty, and when the people, including those in his own

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Eric Florack on November 26th, 2007

Sandy Levinson, of Balkinization :

According to a blog published by the New York Times, Hillary Clinton has told Iowa voters, â??I believe in the Second Amendment, and I donâ??t see any contradiction between the Second Amendment and laws that

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davidl on November 26th, 2007

Curt, Flopping Aces, notes:  

Paris burningThe religion of peace strikes again in France.  This time a couple kids killed themselves by riding stolen mopeds into a police car and the Muslims riot:

A cynic such as myself might think

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