davidl on October 18th, 2007

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It is clear that Nancy Pelosi’s reign as Speaker has been an absolute disaster for the Democratic party and for the entire nation

 Margaret Kimberley.

‘Raticide is just fascinating.   Mrs. Pelosi has not been winning any friends during her tenure 

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

Jawa Report:

(Mexico City) On October 8th, Mexican writer of horror stories, Jose Luis Calva (pic), was arrested after fleeing from police who were investigating strange smells coming from his apartment.

Police were looking into the disappearance

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Megan McArdle yesterday noting the story that we talked about here today,  and the press refuses to talk about at all;

 Thanks to George Bush’s amazing deficit reduction plan, the budget deficit is now only 1.2% of GDP. If

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007
  • A thank you to Michelle Malkin for her link from VDARE.COM. Good article, by the way.
  • Noted in passing at Billy Beck’s…

> The Bawlmer Sun had a front page article
> on the “right-wing smear campaign” against
> the

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

Froomkin:

A defensive President Bush insisted that he was still relevant this morning in a news conference dominated by his bitter complaints about the Democratic Congress.

Asked how he found himself vetoing a children’s health insurance bill that had passed

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

Interesting article in The American Spectator this morning from Shawn Macomber, speaking of the Randi Rhodes thing, yesterday:

A Democratic Underground member went so far as to divine from the assault the opening salvos of “an ideology war between conservatives

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While I have Ace open in the other window, we’ll link another story from there, which matches the mold of the one about the deficit dropping to the lowest in five years…

Trend? Nah. I guess it’s only a story

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Ace notes something that I had observed yesterday, but didn’t have the time to comment on, given the events:

BizzyBlog corrects a bit and notes that the NYT (accidentally!) put a brief AP blurb about the story on page A22,

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

A thoughtful, caring post from RightWingDuck at IMAO today:

Ms. Rhodes was doing nothing wrong at the time except walking her dog. Many on the left are saying that this could not possibly be random. I agree, nothing is out

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

Boortz, yesterday;

A priest in London is being investigated for inciting racial hatred after expressing his Christian views in a parish newsletter. Father John Hayes commented on a case involving a Muslim girl who wanted to wear her full

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davidl on October 17th, 2007

James Watson, as quoted by Reason Magazine:

“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

LOWELL -(Lowell Sun)- Democrat Niki Tsongas of Lowell defeated Republican James Ogonowski of Dracut today to capture the 5th District congressional seat vacated by Marty Meehan earlier this year.With 195 of 195 precincts reporting, Tsongas captured 54,363 votes, or

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Eric Florack on October 17th, 2007

OK a few notes left over from tonight….

Mind you, these are in no particular order.  It’s too fricking late to be that organized.

  • No, Adkins, traffic was never a problem.  I should tell you that it did manage to

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davidl on October 16th, 2007

Our sympathy to Randi Rhodes. May she get well soon.

Our deep felt animus the Bitsblog’s Jerk of the Day, Err America’s Jon Elliot, who manged to enage his gator sized mouth before activating his brain.  Barooosk, Talking Radio :

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Eric Florack on October 16th, 2007

While looking around the left side of the sphere just now, I found what is perhaps the most blatant double standard I’ve seen all week… I’ll give you a screen cap and the address.

http://thepopulistblog.com/2007/10/16/randi-rhodes-victim-of-mugging/

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Drill this one for full

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