Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Gateway Pundit:

Reportedly, on Sunday 11 close family members of Jordanian-based Baathist reporter Dia al-Kawwaz, who runs the online anti-Iraq newspaper Shabeqat Akhbar al-Iraq, were slaughtered in Baghdad. The attack occurred in the Al-Shaab neighborhood shortly after

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Hehehe… Democrats.Org  has come up with one of the more stupid moves I’ve seen in a long time:

For months now, Democrats have been tracking the Republican presidential frontrunners in the field, compiling a video library of candid moments as

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Today’s WSJ:

Fred Thompson’s Presidential campaign has been struggling, in part because of a sense that he lacks passion and an agenda. But late last week he unveiled a tax reform that is more ambitious than anything we’ve seen so

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

McQ, this morning, looks at the Citibank investment yesterday:


Soren Dayton says this may be the “Defining news story of the cycle”…

Citigroup Inc., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, will receive a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Abu Dhabi

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Over at The Glittering Eye, Dave Schuler extends the argument he’s made in the commentstongue-in-cheek post on the fact that the media continues to ignore the ethnic-religious component of the rioting in France.He argues that the problem goes

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davidl on November 28th, 2007

You have good liars and you have chronic liars.  Nobody seems to be believing B.J. Clinton’s  latest.  The New York Times is reporting that B.J. now clains to have opposed the war, “from the beginning

Sadly for B.J.

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

I tend to use a lot of older equipment around here.  The fastest server at Casa de Bit is a PII/400 that I’ve cracked up to around 700 or so with some added cooling. The other two are PII/400’s.

I’ve

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davidl on November 27th, 2007

Writing in the Christian Science Monitor, one Mansoor Ijaz, attempts to skewer Mitt Romney for his answer to a question that Ijaz provides no evidence was ever asked:

I asked Mr. Romney whether he would consider including qualified Americans

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Confederate Yankee reminds us that Franklin Foer and the staff at TNR still has yet to pay the price….

It All Comes Down to This.

Does The New Republic have the solid factual evidence to support these stories?

Where's the beef?Did the

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, U.S. SPECIAL FORCES DETAIN 3, UNCOVER 18 IEDS IN SEPARATE OPERATIONS

Posted: 26 Nov 2007 06:28 AM CST

IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, U.S. SPECIAL FORCES DETAIN 3, UNCOVER 18 IEDS IN SEPARATE OPERATIONS

COALITION FORCES CAPTURE CRIMINAL ELEMENT

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Robert Bindinotto:

The Muslim world is not fooled by our talk about spreading democracy and values. The evidence is too overwhelming that we do not hesitate to support dictators and install puppet governments when it serves our interests. When democratic

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davidl on November 27th, 2007

The Associated Press.

MIAMI – Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor died early Tuesday, a day after the Pro Bowl player was shot at home by what police say was an intruder. He was 24.

Guns don’t kill,  Intruders do.

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Boortz, this morning:

Here is the text of an email that was sent to every student at the University of Florida by the vice president for student affairs. Note, please, the hyphenated name. I don’t know about you … but

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

The “Rightosphere Temperature Check For November: Special GOP Primary Edition” is now up at RWN.

John Hawkins says in mail this morning:

 In this poll, right-of-center bloggers ranked the top 5 GOP contenders on everything from electability to fiscal

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

McQ gets into a fairly well detailed examination of our energy policy woes:

We hear (and have heard) political promises to make the US “energy independent” by x number of years coming from all the current presidential candidates. And

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