Eric Florack on December 28th, 2007

A crazy day, yesterday. For yours truly, lots of irons in the fire, some web development, my day gig some home duities, but of course, as with all of us, yesterday, before I even started the day came the news

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davidl on December 28th, 2007

Mrs. William ClintonAnn Althouse obviously has a much greater willingness to parse Mrs. Clinton in detail than I do.  Professor Althouse catches this snippet of Clintonspeak:

Writes David Linkin (linked by Stephen Kaus). He’s talking about Hillary Clinton in a

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Eric Florack on December 27th, 2007

Attention Bitsblog readers in and around Northeast PA… (Which is actually a town in in north WEST PA)

Anything going on for New Year’s Eve Fireworks around Erie PA this year? I’m not finding anything on the web.

Leave some

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davidl on December 27th, 2007

Speaker PelosiMrs. Pelosi, the inspiration for Swamp Stompers,  promised to “Drain the Swamp.”   Yet all Mrs. Pelosi has managed has to further infest the swamp.

Via, Memeorandum.David Broder, Washington Post, compares Pelosi’s over inflated claims of achievement versus her

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davidl on December 27th, 2007

Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post, fights to keep his Rolodex relevant, and explores the issue of the Reverend Al Sharpton’s relevance:

Al Sharpton

Sharpton has “been eclipsed, because Obama puts guys like Sharpton in the shadow,” said Fred Siegel, a historian

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davidl on December 27th, 2007

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[Ron] Paul blames Lincoln for the Civil War rather than blaming the South for starting a war to preserve slavery. Does he love liberty? Or does he merely loathe the federal government?

James Taranto:  Opinion Journal.

Addendum: (Bit)

Heh…

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Eric Florack on December 27th, 2007

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan —Fox News- Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a homicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally.Bhutto was shot in the neck and chest as she was entering her vehicle,

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While Gallup’s most recent poll… and the “reporting” thereof… centered on the idea that Hillary Clinton has passed Oprah Winfrey as the most admired woman…. (Nobody asked me…)   Ron Coleman over at Right Wing News reports there’s a little

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Eric Florack on December 27th, 2007

Nice to hear from the Conservative Reader (The Iowa Swamp Stomper). Apparently 1040/WHO is going to be running an Immigration Reform talk show, today. C. R.  has the links.

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Eric Florack on December 26th, 2007

Via Memeorandum, I find this.. which I take as evidence that the left is still engaged in anti-Jewish knee-jerking. No wonder they like Ron Paul.

And yes, Miss Mannered, I mean you.

And no, this wasn’t your fisrt time

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davidl on December 26th, 2007

Steve LeBlanc reports on the end of fifteen billion dollar hole in the gronnd.

Big Dig (AP)BOSTON (AP) – When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in

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Eric Florack on December 26th, 2007

Michael S. Barr in The New York Times, today:

WHILE the causes of the mortgage crisis are myriad, a central problem was that many borrowers took out loans that they did not understand and could not afford.

Yep. But what

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Economically speaking, this Christmas season wasn’t bad.

Glenn notes today:

CHRISTMAS RETAIL SALES UP, BUT BY A MODEST 3.6% — but online sales were up 22.4%. The New York Times calls those numbers “bleak,” a term that’s more accurately used

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Eric Florack on December 26th, 2007

Michelle, today:

Environmental busybodies never take a vacation. The lead letter on Christmas day at the San Francisco Chronicle echoed dim bulb Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels’ recent “Stop global warming and buy CFLs or Santa will DIEDIEDIE!

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davidl on December 26th, 2007

Flim flam artists are always trying to seperate a fool from his money.  

Case one, I ran with with this story on 28 October, but it bears repeating:

When Nomatter Tagarira, a spirit medium, claimed that she could conjure

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