davidl on October 1st, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Immigration enforcement works

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) – Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state’s tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.

Education officials say

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davidl on June 3rd, 2011

Hope has died, from Ben White, Politico:

President Barack Obama is heading into his reelection campaign with a flagging economy that appears incapable of producing the sustained job growth needed to push unemployment below crisis levels.

And there appears

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davidl on December 24th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
As Time Goes By, a promise is just Dumbo’s mere words, from Investor Business Daily:

War On Terror: The Obama White House has absurdly called closing the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison “a national security imperative.” The administration’s own

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Eric Florack on June 24th, 2009

Welcome to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere…The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

fronthumpThis is the “Happy Hump Day” Edition” The picture to your right is a railroad hump. It’s how cars are sorted in many rail yards

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Eric Florack on March 27th, 2009

Welcome one and all to the most intense nghtly read anywhere on the sphere: The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the ‘Wonderful Wino” edition.

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Eric Florack on August 8th, 2008
  • 08-08-08. Not sure it means anything, but it’s interesting.
  • Just about mid-summer. The Telegraph reports what I told you about at about mid-spring would happen at Mid-summer: The great oil Bubble has burst.

    The market’s conviction that oil prices were

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Eric Florack on June 23rd, 2008

(RTTNews) – Oil production in Saudi Arabia will be raised, although officials in the oil-rich nation are expressing doubts as to its affects on the rising price of crude in the global market.

After an oil “summit” Sunday in Jeddah,

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Eric Florack on May 22nd, 2008

I’ve been saying this oil bubble we’re in is about to burst. I said just this morning:

Did you notice the prediction for $12/gallon gas? That’s usually the first sign of a bubble bursting. Just file it away for now.

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Eric Florack on May 15th, 2008

By way of Henke, I note:

…it’s Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar who says speculation is behind high oil prices, and actually introduces legislation to “curb” speculation.

Our next step should be to stop the speculation that is driving up

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