Eric Florack on October 29th, 2007

A reader writes:

Hello-I’m sending this as an email instead of a comment because, first of all I’m not positive I’m reading this right, and secondly, for God’s sake the last thing I want is to be misinterpreted as defending

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2007

An interesting set of conditions leads to some interesting mail to catch up on, this morning.

Last night, I took a healthy swipe at Glenn Greenwald. (I know… it’s a target that’s all too easy, but someone hadda do

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Eric Florack on October 28th, 2007

It is amazing to me how often Glenn Greenwald can trip over his own tounge and still be convinced he’s smarter than everyone else. This one’s going to require some background.

As Bruce McQuain noted the other day, the

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Eric Florack on October 26th, 2007

Rob over at Say Anything, yesterday, points to facts the left doesn’t want you to know:

 

Weird…

U.S. combat troop deaths and other violence in Iraq are down significantly in some of the most dangerous places of insurgent

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Jessica Holzer over at The Hill

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) unveiled a sweeping tax overhaul on Thursday that he hailed as a fairer way to spread tax relief, but Republicans attacked the move as a

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Eric Florack on October 25th, 2007

I’m just curious;

Can it be that the reason that the legality of the “candidacy” of Stephen Colbert for the presidency of these United States is being challenged is because of the embarrassment involved with the concept of him actually

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Eric Florack on October 24th, 2007

Megan McArdle:

Ezra and Brian are complaining that it’s hard to get anything done these days:

I think it’s almost certainly wrong that we’re not overwhelmed by the volume of tragedy in the world — there’d have to be something

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davidl on October 24th, 2007

You’d like to think that one place our nations laws would be respected would be in the Halls of Congress.    Not if you are a democrat, who planned to flout our nation’s immigrantion laws by using illegal aliens as props.  

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Eric Florack on October 23rd, 2007

Let me tell you how my life was changed by an episode of “Walker, Texas Ranger.  ”

(Long Silence)

So, you will forgive me if the impression that I leave his than I am less than impressed with Chuck Norris

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Eric Florack on October 22nd, 2007

Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters, remarking about Neil Gabler showing us a little class:

Here’s the partial transcript of this unbelievable moment in television history from Saturday’s “Fox News Watch” (h/t Hot Air, video available here):

I

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Eric Florack on October 21st, 2007

Mark Steyn today:

steyn22.jpgLast Thursday, Nancy Pelosi, as is the fashion, used the phrase “the children” like some twitchy verbal tic, a kind of Democrat Tourette’s syndrome: “This is a discussion about America’s children … We could establish ourselves as

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Eric Florack on October 19th, 2007

Here we go again, with the Chinese donors, to the Clinton campaign.  The LA Times… Hardly a bastion of right wing philosophy, that…

Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for

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davidl on October 18th, 2007

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It is clear that Nancy Pelosi’s reign as Speaker has been an absolute disaster for the Democratic party and for the entire nation

 Margaret Kimberley.

‘Raticide is just fascinating.   Mrs. Pelosi has not been winning any friends during her tenure 

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Megan McArdle yesterday noting the story that we talked about here today,  and the press refuses to talk about at all;

 Thanks to George Bush’s amazing deficit reduction plan, the budget deficit is now only 1.2% of GDP. If

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Eric Florack on October 15th, 2007

By way of Memorandum, I see a New York Times article from Richard Perez-Pena:

Paul E. Steiger, who was the top editor of The Wall Street Journal for 16 years, and a pair of wealthy Californians are assembling a

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