And so we see The New Republic finally awakening from its long silence on the Scott Beauchamp issue, to say absolutely nothing, other than it’s all the army’s fault.

Gee.  Big surprise.  It strikes me, that the real show of

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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 24th, 2007

Well, now… no WONDER Foer was keeping so silent.

Michelle says it very well indeed:

I repeat Ace’s distillation for those who have only superficial knowledge of this scandal: Remember: TNR Hid The Existence Of This Phone Call From The

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Eric Florack on October 23rd, 2007

Glenn Reynolds:

“Violence in Iraq has dropped by 70 percent since the end of June, when U.S. forces completed their build-up of 30,000 extra troops…”

According to the Iraq Interior Ministry.

And bin Laden pipes up and tells his people

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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

I note with some interest today that Michael Yon has released another one of his columns from Iraq.

America seems to be under a glass dome which allows few hard facts from the field to filter in unless they are

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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 20th, 2007

Observe with me the mainstream media fighting for its very life, in the form of a blog post at the CBS website by Matt Felling:

I’ve discussed in this space – though in the light and frothy context of inappropriate

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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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Eric Florack on October 19th, 2007

Randi Rhodes shows remarkable resilience, an extraordinary capability and digging herself into a deeper hole, given she has so few teeth to dig with, anymore.

The Radio Equalizer asks a number of good questions, which I’ll answer, here.

  • Why did

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

Interesting article in The American Spectator this morning from Shawn Macomber, speaking of the Randi Rhodes thing, yesterday:

A Democratic Underground member went so far as to divine from the assault the opening salvos of “an ideology war between conservatives

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Ace notes something that I had observed yesterday, but didn’t have the time to comment on, given the events:

BizzyBlog corrects a bit and notes that the NYT (accidentally!) put a brief AP blurb about the story on page A22,

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The Left-O-sphere is all a-twitter this morning, with reports that Err America host Randi Rhodes was attacked on Sunday night, near her apartment in New York City.  One of the posts to the effect is up at Talking Radio,

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Eric Florack on October 14th, 2007

The Democrats and their supporters really don’t know which way to run anymore.  What they’ve been trying lately, has been working, so they’re going to try and break out the classics.  Witness Frank Rich over at the Democrat party house

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Eric Florack on October 14th, 2007

Over at the Captain’s Quarters Ed makes a discovery:

The Washington Post’s editorial board noticed something over the last few weeks that many of us have pointed out all along. They l discover that General David Petraeus told the truth

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