davidl on April 18th, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
It snowed yesterday, and none dared call it global warming.

Dumbo’s Plan, from Doug MacEachern, Arizona Republic:

I thought about that on Wednesday as President Barack Obama delivered his speech about the country’s precarious finances.

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And

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davidl on March 31st, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Special Sgt. Schultz edition.

Stuff it Ed, from Mark Finkelstein, News Busters:

ED SCHULTZ: Republicans are attacking the Commander-in-Chief during a time of war! . . . There should be no debate: we ought to be kicking [Gaddafi’s]

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davidl on March 19th, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Andrew J. McCarthy, National Review:

{F]or President Obama to seek a congressional declaration of war, or at least an authorization for the use of military force, as the Bush administration understood was required before commencing combat operations in

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Eric Florack on April 1st, 2010

Welcome, one at all, to the most intense nightly raid anywhere on the web … The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

For those who didn’t see it on Facebook, I passed the driving test for my new employer.I’m fairly excited about it

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Eric Florack on October 25th, 2009

A little addendum to my comments about the “State of Emergency” declared by the President yesterday. Note, please the passage here,l in yet another AP story:

Administration officials said the declaration was a pre-emptive move designed to make decisions easier

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Eric Florack on October 24th, 2009

From the AP:

WASHINGTON -AP–  President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.

The declaration, signed

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Eric Florack on October 21st, 2009

So along comes Jake Tapper, speaking to Bobby “the mouthpiece” Gibbs at a White House Gaggle:

Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our

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