Eric Florack on January 7th, 2008

I’m going to pass along some extended quotes that caught my eye over the weekend.

During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to

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davidl on January 4th, 2008

Danger extreme  hatred for the human race on display.  From Times Online(UK):

legg_sharon.jpgA married mother of three has won thousands of pounds in compensation from a gay nightclub that discriminated against her because she is heterosexual.

Sharon Legg, 33,

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Eric Florack on January 3rd, 2008

Page Six last night reported:

 In a surprise move Britney Spears legal team has quit. Their motion filed today to be relieved as counsel to Spears, attorneys at Trope and Trope have also revealed a range of new witnesses

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Eric Florack on December 29th, 2007

Scott Ott is formidable when he decides to get serious in his writing, as he does here.

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has put on notice the leaders of every European nation.

Your secularism, your democracy will not stand. The

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Eric Florack on December 24th, 2007

I wanted to pass along a couple of pictures that were passed along to me by readers last year. I never got the chance to use them last season because I didn’t see them until well after new year’s. But

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Ron Paul, as you may know…particularly if you’ve been reading here, was on Meet the Press yesterday. Now I doubtless will be getting reaction from the Paulettes, as I do every freakin’ time I bring the subject up…. reaction not

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Eric Florack on December 22nd, 2007

Steven Taylor at OTB:

Via the LAT: Grim tales from Zimbabwe

Life here is full of Catch-22 dilemmas that would strain credulity if they were fiction: It costs more to go to work than you can possibly earn, for

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Eric Florack on December 22nd, 2007

Let me first say that I’ve never been overly enthralled with Mike Huckabee and his candidacy for presidency.  He’s never struck me as overly bright individual to begin with, and his activities subsequent to announcing for the presidency, and have

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Eric Florack on December 15th, 2007

There’s an interesting discussion going on and just now a cross blog discussion about religion and politics.  The interested parties I’ve noticed thus far are Cassandra over at Villainous Company, and Bruce McQuain over at Q&O. In turn, the discussion

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Eric Florack on December 15th, 2007

Mike Pethar over at Jawa:

This week, a battle in the gender war was won by the women. The heraldic lion on the coat of arms of the Nordic Battlegroup has been castrated.

Ouch!

The armed forces agreed to

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davidl on December 15th, 2007

Mr.and Mrs.William CintonFrom Editor & Publisher, Mr.  Clinton said:

“It would be a miracle if Hillary wins in Iowa, and I’m not just low-balling you”

From AFP:

Hillary Clinton on Friday denied her White House campaign was in disarray, despite

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Eric Florack on December 14th, 2007

So Britain has decided to sign away its sovereignty.

They will tell you that’s not what happened, but trust me;  That’s exactly what happened today.  When the event finally showed up it was rather anti-climatic, the wishes of the people

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Eric Florack on December 14th, 2007

JPOST- Iran tested a newly-developed ballistic missile on the day of the Annapolis conference, Channel 10 reported Wednesday.

The Ashoura missile has a range of 2,000 kilometers and is capable of reaching Israel, US Army bases in the Middle East

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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 8th, 2007

Me at Q&O where Dale Franks is properly agonizing over ‘torture’:

Do we really want the government to do “unpleasant, unsavory and sometimes awful things” in the defense of our freedom?

I am amazed that a veteran of our military

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