Eric Florack on April 9th, 2010

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davidl on March 7th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

What ever happened to Separation of Church and State?

The White House on Friday announced a “summit on entrepreneurship” to build economic ties with the Islamic world, part of President Barack Obama’s outreach to Muslims.

The White House said it

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davidl on March 1st, 2010

William Faulkner on Pickett’s Charge::

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two oclock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2009

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Eric Florack on October 7th, 2009

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  • It’s August, already? Where the hell did July go?   2/3rds of the summer is gone and I’m just getting started on the stuff I wanted to do this year.
  • Honorable Mention at OTB’s caption Contest. I gotta admit, that

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Eric Florack on July 29th, 2008

WASHINGTON — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens allegedly made false statements to cover up gifts given to him by an oil contractor seeking his help on Capitol Hill, according to a seven-count federal indictment unveiled Tuesday.

Stevens, 84, is the longest-serving

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Eric Florack on July 11th, 2008

Former Sen. Phil Gramm, a top economic adviser to presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, referred to the economic slowdown as “a mental recession” and called the United States “a nation of whiners.”

The comments, in an interview with The

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Eric Florack on July 6th, 2008

Marie Colvin at The London Times, reports on troop movements and successes in Iraq. Of course nobody in the domestic press has bothered to notice, since apparently success isn’t the picture the domestic mainstream media has decided it wants

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Eric Florack on June 13th, 2008

It appears that John McCain has decided there’s a problem with the SCOTUS ruling yesterday on Gitmo. Michael Scherer at Time:

 

Yesterday, it was not clear if McCain would make the court decision an election year issue. Today, there

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