• John Hawkins points out MSNBC‘s David Shuster isn’t alone.

    We all know by now about the controversy surrounding MSNBC’s David Shuster and his allegation that Chelsea Clinton was being “pimped” by her family in order to drum up support

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davidl on February 11th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

Conversation this morning:

Me: Good Moring.

Neighbor: How you doing?

Me: Cold!

Neighbor: Very

Thirty-six car pile-up near Scottsville, NY, Rochester, Democat and Chronicle:

Thirty-Six car pile-up, I-390, Scottville, NYFebruary 11, 2008 7:28 am – The scale of Sunday’s chain-reaction pileup on Interstate 390

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Eric Florack on February 9th, 2008

Coalition forces capture Special Groups leader, detain four total suspects

Posted: 08 Feb 2008 04:11 AM CST

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Feb. 7, 2008) â?? Coalition forces captured a suspected Special Groups leader and detained three other suspects late Thursday during operations

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Eric Florack on February 7th, 2008

Henke, this monring:

In light of the possibility that a Democrat could win the Presidency in November, giving them control of the White House and both houses of Congress, it’s worth pointing out what Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said

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  • Tax the rich? Tax fairness? Yeah, right.

    just one corporation (Exxon Mobil) pays as much in taxes ($27 billion) annually as the entire bottom 50% of individual taxpayers, which is 65,000,000 people!

    Now, next time you wonder why gas at

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Ok, I was a whimp to complain about cold and freezing rain.   It sure beats winter tornados, John Lester, NewsOXY:

ThunderstormsTornadoes touched down in the southern US states of Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi on Tuesday night, causing severe damage

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davidl on February 6th, 2008

The weather outside is frightful.   Good day to be a duck.

Mitt Romney:   I voted for Mitt.  He would make a good president.   Sad to say, Romney is just one horrible candidate, a modern day Jack Kemp.   Romney has won

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davidl on January 30th, 2008

Wizard of Oz - twister

So uttered to me this morning.   The good news, is  that we don’t have Dorothy’s twister.   The bad news, it is far colder than a summer day in Kansas.   The morning fish wrapper said the peak wind speed should be

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  • I see where Romney and McCain are trading insults, both saying to one another, that they’re liberal. Of course, long term readers of this blog will understand something many other have not yet… they’re both correct.
  • I hear there’s

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Eric Florack on January 27th, 2008

Billy:

 It’s wonderful to see Field Marshal Rodham getting kicked in the teeth in South Carolina. What’s awful is the hysteria surrounding Obama.

I keep thinking about Martin Luther King’s admonition on the content of character. There is an

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Eric Florack on January 26th, 2008

COLUMBIA, S.C. – AP- Barack Obama routed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the racially charged South Carolina primary Saturday night, regaining campaign momentum in the prelude to a Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 Democratic National Convention delegates.Former Sen.

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Eric Florack on January 25th, 2008

Anyone remember John Edwards?

I know… not lately.

He’s not going to the White House, unless they need an elevator operator.  By my read, he’s playing for some sort of appointment to a post in a Democrat White House. Notice…

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Eric Florack on January 25th, 2008

I note with interest that Jonathan Martin has put up a post at Politico making note of the fact that the global warming business has all but disappeared from John McCain’s speechmaking. Apparently McCain has finally figured out it’s not

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2008

That question is going to be a little strange to answer.

Hawkins says :

My instinct is that poll is probably a little more representative of how things would work in the real world. Fred Thompson’s supporters would probably break

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2008

Fred Barnes:

John McCain has a problem. After winning South Carolina’s primary last Saturday, he should be the overwhelming favorite to capture the Republican presidential nomination. He’s not, at least not yet, and the reason is that he’s alienated so

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