davidl on November 13th, 2007

Mike Allen, Politico, reports on Howard Dean’s latest gaff:

In another statement likely to stir debate among the evangelical Christians his party is urgently trying to court, Dean also asserted “there are no bars to heaven for anybody,” according

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Eric Florack on November 13th, 2007

Since when has that phrase ever, in reality, had anything to do with age?

We all know 70 year olds who are younger than a fair handful of 20-somethings we know…

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Eric Florack on November 13th, 2007

Dale Franks, this morning, adds somewhat to the discussion of yesterday of “Lions for Lambs”, with an unusually insightful piece called “Antiwar movie Flops”.

Go RTWT.

I add a question:

 But perhaps the larger question, here is whom such a

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2007

Newsbusters:

 On Sunday’s “NBC Nightly News,” correspondent Pete Williams previewed details of a new book, The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack, by Ronald Kessler, in which Kessler revealed information obtained by the an

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2007

Right Wing News:

An excerpt, in an article called, “LAPD Plan To Map Muslim Communities Angers Some Groups,” caught my attention,

“A plan by the LAPD counterterrorism bureau to create a map detailing the Muslim communities in that

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davidl on November 12th, 2007

Ironic, Daily Mail (UK):

Gunfire killed at least six people and wounded 80 today at a Fatah memorial rally for Yasser Arafat attended by hundreds of thousands of supporters of the defeated faction in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

A sea

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2007

The other shoe has finally dropped:

Fred Dicker at the NY Post:

November 12, 2007 — Gov. Spitzer‘s former communications director, Darren Dopp, asked another Spitzer aide to lie about the origins of the Dirty Tricks Scandal – including

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2007

Jim Wrenn the Editor of PoliSat.com, asks a pretty fair question, given the political conetnt and angle of the movie:

Who has the financial clout and production skills to counter Hollywood’s “Lions for Lambs” campaign-ad?  Does not McCain/Feingold unconstitutionally

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Say Anything:

Despite all their protestations of piety and clean living as well as their condemnation of anything they deem to be “Unislamic” it seems that our friends from the Religion of Peace have a keen desire to dive right

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John J. Miller, National Review, comes upon a piece of vapidity from the New York Times,  a moron, writing under the nom de plume, Eduardo Porter, wrote:

The framers of the Constitution evidently believed that happiness could be

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2007

McQ over at Q&O:

 Run Silent, Run Deep…

And pop up like a cork in the midst of a carrier battle group:

American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2007

Ace of Spades says:

Looks like the Saturday night box office estimates are in and while Lions for Lambs basically doubled its take from Friday, $6.7 million in box office is only good for 4th place.

A distant 4th

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Eric Florack on November 11th, 2007
  • I’ve added a trick to the category listing that’s been in the right sidebar since day one; The system now gives you a count of how many postings are in each category. I’m not really sure how much it helps,

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Eric Florack on November 11th, 2007

Found at Donklephant:

Frum:

“Just noticed that Andrew Sullivan opines that I am “rattled” by Paul’s haul. Personally, I think it is Andrew who has been “rattled” by being caught in yet another of his careless or reckless errors

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Eric Florack on November 11th, 2007

Poor Paul Krugman...

So there’s a campaign on to exonerate Ronald Reagan from the charge that he deliberately made use of Nixon’s Southern strategy. When he went to Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1980, the town where the civil rights workers

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