davidl on January 2nd, 2012

Janet Shan, Hinterland Gazette:

Gun sales surge in U.S. for Christmas. According to the FBI, over 1.5 million background checks on customers were requested by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in December, the UK

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2011

I note David’s post, Pervert State University with large chunks of agreement, particularly  where he closes with…

Evidently, building character is not included in the curriculum at Pervert State.

True, but I’m not so sure we can aver that Penn

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davidl on October 1st, 2011

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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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Eric Florack on September 6th, 2011

Allentown, PA– I’m dropping off a load here, having brought it from Avon, NY last night. I’ll be leaving here in an hour or so for Harrisburg,PA, and from there to Rotterdam,NY, outside Albany. It’s raining here… has been raining

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Eric Florack on July 12th, 2011

York, PA– I”m at the ES3 warehouse, here waiting for for the load I brought down from Barilla in Avon to be offloaded. At that point I’ll hit the sack and be up around 6am to run a load of

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Eric Florack on May 17th, 2011

Bronx, NY– As this is posted, I’m in The Bronx, waiting to be unloaded. I ran back to Mountaintop,PA overnight (Through heavy fog) to get this load headed for the Bronx. I’m certainly getting to see lots of the big

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The day the freedom died in Indiana, from NWI Times:

INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist

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davidl on May 1st, 2011

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Obama Can’t, Victor Davis Hanson on the problem with the Obami, from RCP:

[A] president who believes that modern cars get eight miles per gallon or need frequent tune-ups, and that proper tire inflation can substitute for drilling

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Eric Florack on January 16th, 2011

By now, you will have noticed some odd posting behavior.

Not to worry, I’m just getting the kinks out of my Twitter crosslinks. THe object here is when I post on Twitter, which I do frequently, I’d like the post

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davidl on December 29th, 2010

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Why the War on Barbour? From Alex Pareene, Slate:

Corpulent unreconstructed good ol’ boy Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour apparently has a “state plane” that he uses to fly to football games with corporate executives, Politco reports today. Barbour, a

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davidl on December 20th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble DADT is dead, long live DADT,from David Woods, Politics Daily:

For the next few months and possibly for as long as a year, gays and lesbians in uniform will still be subject to investigation and discharge if they

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Eric Florack on November 14th, 2010

We’ve had a spot of bother with the plug-ins normally used here.  One of them updated, and crashed the entire system , probably on Friday.  While you were able to see everything that we’ve written to that point, some of

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Eric Florack on September 5th, 2010

Yep… no disconnect here.

A majority of New York City teachers who lost their positions at schools earlier this year have neither applied for another job in the system nor attended any recruitment fairs

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davidl on May 17th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleLibtards against choice I, Boston Globe:

No surprise, then, that ADL takes a hard line against school-choice voucher programs, which give parents the wherewithal to rescue their children from failing public schools and enroll them in private schools

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davidl on May 14th, 2010

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L & O DOA, Deadline:

This one is a shocker. Veteran crime drama Law & Order will not get its shot at history after all. I hear that after long deliberations, NBC has decided to cancel the long-running

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