Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

I want to call your attention to the advertisement on the extreme lower right of the right side column.

The ad has been run free of charge on this site because I believe seriously in the project. it’s a part

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Eric Florack on November 17th, 2007

I’ve gone to some lengths to point up where Hollywood has failed us by turning left. My favorite Jersey Girl, Michelle, points up that Hollywood may seem the monolithic leftist bloc.. but it’s not…

We do a lot of Hollywood-bashing

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Eric Florack on November 13th, 2007

Betsy Newmark, yesterday:

Mackubin Thomas Owens had a great column yesterday in honor of Veterans Day. He noted the proclivity of those in the media to treat those in the military as either victims or monsters. He notes that since

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Eric Florack on November 11th, 2007

Found at Donklephant:

Frum:

“Just noticed that Andrew Sullivan opines that I am “rattled” by Paul’s haul. Personally, I think it is Andrew who has been “rattled” by being caught in yet another of his careless or reckless errors

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Eric Florack on November 10th, 2007

(New York Times) -Norman Mailer, the combative, controversial and often outspoken novelist who loomed over American letters longer and larger than any writer of his generation, died today in Manhattan. He was 84.

Conservative Reader Blog points out:

Much of

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We’ve spoken several times in these spaces as regards Joe Liberman, and the treatment he’s been getting at the hands of Democrats for supporting the Iraq war effort.  We’ve also mentioned many times that the Democrats and the mainstream media

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Fred Lucas and Kevin Mooney at CNS note:

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Tuesday that the troop surge, which began in June, has had a significant impact on the situation in Iraq and noted that he

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2007

Michelle notes that to get the story of what’s happening in Iraq, you need to turn to the newspapers… in Austrailia.

IT is whispered about at the margins of meetings, and discussed in Washington parties where rumour is passed around

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Eric Florack on November 1st, 2007

Sorry about the display problems, earlier this evening.

Some changes I made to the sidebar blew up. Basically, I inserted the line of code into the PHP one line too high.

Should be OK now.

BBCT to Bluto for catching

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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 29th, 2007

Jon Roth at GOP Bloggers hits this one square on:

 Nothing gets a Democrat angrier (not even the incineration of nearly 3,000 civilians on American soil) than having his judgment on national security questioned. The knee-jerk response is to howl

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Eric Florack on October 25th, 2007

I think it amazing that this Scott Beauchamp story has been met with such stony silence from the mainstream media.  It has only been twelve hours now or so since the story came out that documents and transcripts of phone

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Eric Florack on October 24th, 2007

Sounds rather like a forthcoming football game, doesn’t it? Interestingly, this little subtext drama gets played out in the sports venue of each city.

(Sigh) I haven’t even attempted to cover the fires in SouCal. I’m simply not equipped for

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Eric Florack on October 23rd, 2007

Glenn Reynolds:

“Violence in Iraq has dropped by 70 percent since the end of June, when U.S. forces completed their build-up of 30,000 extra troops…”

According to the Iraq Interior Ministry.

And bin Laden pipes up and tells his people

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I honestly don’t understand why I’m spending any amount of time on this story at all, except for the fact that Andrew Sullivan gets himself Bitch-slapped by Mike Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard:

Does Andrew Sullivan read stories before he

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