Eric Florack on March 20th, 2008

I’m hearing local congresscritter Tom Reynolds won’t be running again, this fall. He’s supposed to announce around noon, today, according to Buffalo radio.

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Eric Florack on March 20th, 2008

From the WSJ this morning:

Among the many things Hillary Clinton’s schedule sheds light on are her activities before, during and after major events in her husband’s presidential tenure – such as the death of Vince Foster.

Foster, a lawyer

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davidl on March 20th, 2008

If this were a boxing match, it would have been called.   Another say, another David Paterson mess,    The Daily News, New York, reports, “Gov. Paterson says he may have used campaign cash for hotel hookup:”  

Gov. Paterson admitted

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Eric Florack on March 20th, 2008

In the LA Times, this morning:

In the script for the landmark 1964 film “Nothing but a Man,” actor Ivan Dixon saw something familiar in the character Duff Anderson.

Duff was a railroad worker in love with Josie, a

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Eric Florack on March 19th, 2008
  • Busy watching the Sabres beat up on Tampa Bay, so I didn’t get to this until late. PLayoff time, you know… and it looks to me like they’ll be there. IN this win, they entered the third with a 4

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davidl on March 19th, 2008

Can we say Governor Bruno?    David Paterson has been governor of New York for two days, and we now know of two mistresses.   Fredric U. Dicker, New York Post

March 19, 2008 — ALBANY – An attractive Olympic gold-medalist

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Eric Florack on March 19th, 2008

It’s about time we examine the ideas and ideals at the root of what Jeremiah Wright preaches… what is commonly known by the rather innocent sounding name of “Black Liberation Theology”.

We can best do this by examining the work

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davidl on March 19th, 2008

One Edward Wasserman writing in the Miami Herald argues,” We need online rules:”

As traditional news outfits migrate online to become dot-coms, one of their biggest headaches is how to adapt to the sprawling new frontier of public comment.

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Eric Florack on March 19th, 2008

Did you notice this from Galveston TX the other day?

Galveston city officials said Monday they plan to work more closely with event promoters, such as a weekend rap concert organizer, to prevent out-of-control crowds and traffic jams that resulted

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Eric Florack on March 19th, 2008

Higher education. Two examples of such, from the first ten minutes of this morning’s web travels:
First example: School kids, courtesy of the Jawas:

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Actually, it’s spelled “Too many”. And I’m not even going to get into the lack of

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Eric Florack on March 18th, 2008

I’ve not turned out a single issue ramble in some months, now, Tonight seems the time.

I’ll say this at the outset; I have been predisposed to not trust what Obama has to say on much of anything in general,

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davidl on March 18th, 2008

Is Barack Obama’s grandmother a racist, or is BO a fool?   BO as attributed by Jim Geraghty, National Review

 “I can no more disown [Reverend Wright] than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me,

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Eric Florack on March 18th, 2008

A short while ago, I raised the issue with Al Gore getting hoisted on his own petard, by those wanting to bring him into court in a lawsuit over the fraud that  is the global warming scare. I suggested in

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davidl on March 18th, 2008

Another morning in New York.  Another governor.  David Paterson was sworn in yesterday.  And oh  by the way, another sex scandal.   Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News:

The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state’s

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Eric Florack on March 18th, 2008

So, Obama is going to try to diffuse the race issue he has so far benefitted from. How? By giving a  speech. The trouble with that idea, of course, is that the speech comes almost directly on the heels of

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