Eric Florack on March 10th, 2008

Aside from the mess we described here last week for ANY kind of action as regards Florida and Michigan,  the Democrats are now willing to add to that a mail-in scheme.

WASHINGTON -(Fox)  A consensus began to emerge Sunday that

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The Times Online, yesterday, puts some fresh light on plastic bags and those who want them banned:

 Scientists and environmentalists have attacked a global campaign to ban plastic bags which they say is based on flawed science and exaggerated claims.

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davidl on March 9th, 2008

Olivia Ward, Toronto Star(CA) reports on “Ten worst countries for women:”

The image of the 21st century woman is confident, prosperous, glowing with health and beauty.

But for many of the 3.3 billion female occupants of our

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Eric Florack on March 9th, 2008

Jeff Jacoby:

WHAT DO ethanol and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Each is a good reminder of that most powerful of unwritten decrees, the Law of Unintended Consequences – and of the all-too-frequent tendency of solutions imposed by

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davidl on March 9th, 2008

A wee historical question for Bacack Obama., which American Presidnet freed the slaves, George B. McClellan or Abraham Lincoln ?

Jack Nicholson on freedom:

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Steven King on radical Islamists, video:

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Text:

“I don’t want to disparage anyone

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Eric Florack on March 8th, 2008

The President, today, by way of the BitsBlog Newsroom:

Unfortunately, Congress recently sent me an intelligence authorization bill that would diminish these vital tools. So today, I vetoed it. And here is why:

The bill Congress sent me

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Eric Florack on March 8th, 2008

(Chicago Sun-Times)-He was “the man behind the curtain” whose pervasive influence in the Blagojevich administration stacked state boards and lined his pockets, prosecutors charged Thursday as they opened their highly anticipated corruption case against Tony Rezko. But lawyers for

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  • Snowing in Rochester at the moment. Nothing newsworthy about that, particularly, except that the line of snow as this is being written runs from north and east of here to the south southwest, all the way down to New Orleans.

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Eric Florack on March 7th, 2008

Hume, last night:

Two Ohio Democrats tell The Politico newspaper that superdelegates in the state are banding together to get what they want – withholding their endorsements from Obama and Clinton until they receive what is called a concrete proposal

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davidl on March 7th, 2008

Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns have looked in the mirror and saw a monster. Gerri Peev, Scotsman:

HILLARY Clinton has been branded a “monster” by one of Barack Obama’s top advisers, as the gloves come off in the

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Eric Florack on March 7th, 2008

Just so you know, Iran is anything but unified behind Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.

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Eric Florack on March 7th, 2008

You will doubtless recall Hillary’s “Daisy” ad, where she raises the question about who is going to answer that 3am phone call.  Obama released a response ad last week, too.

But in a rare bit of honesty, the New

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  • hrc4pres.jpgIt strikes me as amusing indeed that the plan that Hillary Clinton is using to win the Democratic Party primary is the very same plan Al Gore used back in 2000, in his attempt to win the election.  Namely, challenge

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Eric Florack on March 6th, 2008

Much is being made just now, of the possiblity of the DNC making a ‘do-over’ in Florida and Michagan.  If I considdered oward Dean a principled man, I’d suggest he wouldn’t do it on the basis of principle. But these

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Eric Florack on March 6th, 2008

It used to be ‘global warming’. Then a few dozen  enviro-nazi rallies got stopped by snowstorms. Kinda hard to claim global warming when you’re freezing your buttocks off.

Remember how it was vital we ‘save the whales’? Well, that’s out

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