Eric Florack on July 15th, 2007

I find myself as pleased about this as I have been about anything on this site in a long time…. Please allow me to welcome back to my Blog Roll, Snugg Harbor.

I lost track of Guy there for a

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Eric Florack on July 11th, 2007

By way of Billy Beck, I note Tom Bartlett has decided not to do his column anymore.

In the not-too-distant past, this was impossible. If you didn’t write for a newspaper, it was very hard to get out commentary

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Eric Florack on July 6th, 2007

Rusty Shackelford is asking for some help.  I’ll post the text here, just in case, because I wouldn’t put it past these sand monkeys to try to knock Rusty over.

No joke, the Taliban have posted a message on

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Both McQ at Q&O, and James at OTB note the wailing from Susie Madrak.

Only because it’s handier, will use the comments of James to start this off;

Susie Madrak, under the attention-grabbing headline “No More Dead Bloggers,”

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Eric Florack on July 2nd, 2007

Just a quick update. My wife and new baby girl are doing just great. If anything, my wife is going stir crazy from the doctor’s orders not to do too much. Neither of us really likes to sit around the

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Eric Florack on June 24th, 2007

Rusty Shackleford and his lady are expecting, and she’s due to be induced on Monday. Congrats from all here, Rusty. Give that lady a hug.

Oh, wait… that’s how this stuff got started in the first place, isn’t it?
Ummm…

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2007

Of late, I have been reading Bernie Goldberg’s books so I was pleasantly surprised to see he’s got a new one out, and even more pleasantly surprised to see John Hawkins interviewing him on it.  

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Eric Florack on June 18th, 2007

I see where Right Wing News has an article up with John Ensign.  A number of topics get covered, and it’s a good read.

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Eric Florack on June 17th, 2007

I note Baldilocks, today, noting the Mike Nifong case... a case that DavidL has done so well in tracking. I have always said, that the idea was about getting himself reelected.  I’ve also suggested repeatedly that the implications of

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Eric Florack on June 17th, 2007

John Venlet opens his editor and says:

Editors at the Boston Globe implore, Please, not another Cold War.

Okay, but let’s review what the editors say as they blather on in this piece.

Bush, dedicating the Victims of Communism Memorial

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Eric Florack on June 17th, 2007

Yeah, no kidding, Ace.

Look, gang, Ace does a pretty fair job of leveling that Psychotic idiot, Greenwald. I was laughing out loud over that one for quite a while. Ann Althouse does a pretty fair job, as well… But

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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2007

U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AFPN) — Legendary fighter pilot, retired Brig. Gen. Robin Olds, died June 14 from congestive heart failure one month short of his 85th birthday.

honor1.jpg General Olds, rated a triple ace for having shot down a

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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2007

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Eric Florack on June 15th, 2007

Comments by Republican senators on Thursday suggested that they were feeling the heat from conservative critics of the bill, who object to provisions offering legal status. The Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who supports the bill, said: “Talk radio

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Eric Florack on June 14th, 2007

Captain Ed asks what we ought to be calling ‘earmarks”.

How about we call them “Corruption”?

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