davidl on January 25th, 2008

Local Congressman James Walsh(NY – 25) is retiring, Rachal Barnhart, 13WHAM:,

(Rochester, N.Y.) – Congressman James Walsh of Onondaga is retiring. The Republican has held the 25th district seat for two decades

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So who will the

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davidl on January 8th, 2008

Gloria Steinem gives the gender feminist moo of the day in the New York Times.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe:

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davidl on December 16th, 2007

Rochester, NY 12/16/2007

The good news is that we did not get either the twenty-one inches projected on Friday or the eighteen as of yesterday.   The bad news is that the storm advisory runs through Seven tommorow morning.

At breakfast this morning the

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Eric Florack on December 12th, 2007

Hume, last night:

Climate scientists from three American universities have published peer-reviewed research indicating global warming cannot be affected or modified by controlling the emission of greenhouse gases — and that current greenhouse computer models saying otherwise are wrong. The

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Eric Florack on December 11th, 2007

OKLAHOMA CITY — (AP)- A wintry storm caked America’s center with a thick layer of ice, blacking out more than 600,000 homes and businesses, and more icy weather was on the way. At least 17 deaths in Oklahoma and Missouri

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Eric Florack on December 2nd, 2007

David Freddoso at The Corner:

Look, we can blame CNN all we want. But there’s more to the sad fact that Democratic campaign and Party plants asked 11 of the questions in the last two debates, as though they were

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Eric Florack on December 1st, 2007

Captain Ed has noticed that Hillary Clinton decided almost immediately to make a political event out of the hostage situation, yesterday. He quotes a note posted at the Politico

And as soon as it ended, Clinton took full advantage of

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davidl on December 1st, 2007

Bit wondered if the strange “hostage” situation in Rochester, New Hampshire the work of some demented Ron Paul supported.   Err,  I repeated by myself.   Paul supporter.

Acoording the account given by the New York Times, I doubt it:

Mr.

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Eric Florack on November 30th, 2007

So, the big story of the day ( Memeorandum is simply choked with it… and Michelle has been on it all day) is that one of Ron Paul’s supporters showed up at Hillary Clinton’s Campaign office in Rochester NH.  Well,

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Eric Florack on November 24th, 2007
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
–J.R.R. Tolkien

No,

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Eric Florack on November 19th, 2007

The figures are in:

DETROIT (AP) — In another blow to the Motor City’s tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation’s most dangerous city, according to a private research group’s controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual

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Eric Florack on October 12th, 2007

The first indication that you’re going to lose the culture war is when those supposedly on your side duck and cover.  And that, alas, has already begun.

Reports I have seen… even from sources I usually don’t give much credit

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