Eric Florack on December 19th, 2007

I see Drudge teasing a National Enquirer headline about a supposed lovechild scandal involving “John Edward’s Love child”.

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Ummm guys? Let’s remember, first of all, that the National Enquirer is to honest news reporting what the New York Times is

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davidl on December 4th, 2007

Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, chides Mike Huckabee for foolishly comparing himself to Ronald Reagan.   Paul suggests a far better analogy:

When it comes to foreign policy, Huckabee more closely resembles another former governor, Jimmy Carter. It was Carter, not Reagan,

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

I’m often asked why I railfan. Someone wrote and asked me that today.

It”s really a family activity.  I wrote to this point about 5 years ago… while sitting just west of my office here… in a little burg called

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davidl on November 30th, 2007

Allah Pundit, Hot Air, provides smoking gun proof in Mike Huckabee’s own words, that Huckabee is a flaming liberal.   Huckabee believes that the taxpayers should be forced to spend their money in order to statisfy his conscience.  See the

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davidl on November 27th, 2007

Writing in the Christian Science Monitor, one Mansoor Ijaz, attempts to skewer Mitt Romney for his answer to a question that Ijaz provides no evidence was ever asked:

I asked Mr. Romney whether he would consider including qualified Americans

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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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davidl on November 9th, 2007

Note the author of this post was in a somewhat vile mood this morning.   Alas. 

I am impressed.  Two black men quote Dr. Martin Luther King.    Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint in Christian Science Monitor:

Martin Luther

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Eric Florack on October 26th, 2007

The Science and Public Policy Institute, has released a report on Al Gore’s movie, that you will want to read.  It goes into great detail, listing of 35 different lies found in that movie, lies which the institute, in its

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Eric Florack on October 25th, 2007

Interesting stuff the Cheerful Iconoclast:

Glen Reynolds links to this Christian Science Monitor article by Craig Franklin about the Jena 6 case. Franklin is a local journalist who has covered the case for the local paper, and his article is

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davidl on October 23rd, 2007

I’d think if it were but possible to rewrite one’s will after your death, the the Nobel committee would need to find another line of work.  After proving that their peace prize was a sham by awarding to jokers like

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Eric Florack on October 22nd, 2007

World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown. —

This is the headline

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davidl on October 20th, 2007

The politically correct bigots are still steamed about James Watson’s observation regarding race and intelligence.   Selwyn Duke, American Thinker, dares to take another bite out the poisoned apple:

And what is the Truth about racial differences?  For one

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davidl on October 17th, 2007

James Watson, as quoted by Reason Magazine:

“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason

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davidl on October 15th, 2007

Paul Krugman, New York Times, has an column up on anthropogenic global warming.    As usual, Krugman is less than rational.  But heck, it is the Times, the sane need not apply.

In Washington Monthly, Kevin Drumm, takes up

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davidl on October 14th, 2007

Al GoreShocking news from Two Thousand, the New York Times admits, kind of, sort of, that Al Gore lost Florida:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — Al Gore‘s seven-year journey from loser to laureate began in bitterness, settled for a time into

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