Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

Mike Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard:

The Wall Street Journal reports on the stunning success of Representative John Murtha in channeling taxpayer dollars to pork-barrel projects in his district, including awards for companies under FBI investigation and others which show

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Fersboo on October 30th, 2007

I’ll expect the same outrage for Pelosi’s actions, if not more, that FEMA generated by staging a press conference.

The Hill is reporting that Speaker of the House Pelosi (D) is concerned that Republicans will use the Rangel’s “controversial new

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

Doctor Thomas Sowell points up something I’ve discussed here previously:

It is remarkable how many political “solutions” today are dealing with problems created by previous political “solutions.” Three examples that come to mind immediately are the housing -market crisis,

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davidl on October 30th, 2007

Eliot SpitzerNew York State Governor Eliot Spitzer is an ambitious man.    He used this tenure as New York State Attorney General create a wave popular support which propelled his to state governor.

Surely Spitzer would like to use the state governorship

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 —NY TIMES- State Department investigators offered Blackwater USA security guards immunity during an inquiry into last month’s deadly shooting of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad — a potentially serious investigative misstep that could complicate efforts to prosecute the

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

Oooh… interesting.

At least to a radio person.

I see Boortz is now on 1260/KGIL.

I wasn’t aware they’d gone News/Talk. Last I was out there, (early 97) they were running an all- Beatles format. No, I’m not kidding.  Hell,

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

Tony Snow has a firm grip on reality:

 On the newspaper business: “The newspapers have to realize that they are a niche market and the one thing they can do better than anyone else is analysis. As a guy who

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davidl on October 29th, 2007

The leftards do more than forge emails.   They simply refuse to surrender their cheerished myths, even when they see refuting evidence with their own two eyes.   From the Puffington Post,  Rich Jacobs reports on a restuarant patron:

We had

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2007

A reader writes:

Hello-I’m sending this as an email instead of a comment because, first of all I’m not positive I’m reading this right, and secondly, for God’s sake the last thing I want is to be misinterpreted as defending

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2007

They must be running out of stuff to throw at their competition… this one was already debunked.

BBCT: Memeorandum 

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2007

Hmmm. I’ve been busy most of today, and so didn’t see the follow on to the Greenwald nonsense of the week we were following last night… and later the same night
The Dread Pundit Bluto, however, HAS been

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2007

porter.jpg The New York Times Porter Wagoner, a country singer who mixed rhinestone suits, a towering pompadour and cornball jokes with direct, simple songs over a career best known for his partnership with Dolly Parton, died last night in Nashville.

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2007

The New York Post:

October 28, 2007 — Gov. Spitzer yesterday announced an indefinite delay in his heavily criticized plan to grant driver’s licenses to illegal aliens as the state develops a three-tiered licensing system that will be acceptable to

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2007

Heh… Steyn comes up with an instant classic...a quip… actually, a few of them, I wish I could have claimed as my own:

steyn22.jpgAs far as I know, the movie Deliverance has featured in political discourse just the

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2007

AFGHAN NATIONAL SECURITY, COALITION FORCES KILL DOZENS OF TALIBAN FIGHTERS IN HELMAND PROVINCE

Posted: 28 Oct 2007 05:22 AM CDT

AFGHAN NATIONAL SECURITY, COALITION FORCES KILL DOZENS OF TALIBAN FIGHTERS IN HELMAND PROVINCE

COALITION FORCES DISRUPT TERRORIST NETWORKS, SIX SUSPECTS

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