Eric Florack on October 27th, 2009

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Eric Florack on October 23rd, 2009

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

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  • THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE PRESS: Let’s get down to this one, right off. Both David and myself have commented on

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on July 4th, 2009

declaration-of-independenceTwo hundred and thirty-three years ago, the men of the Second Continental Congress made a bold gesture as they sought to uncleave themselves from their ties with Great Britain.  A gesture intended to convey that they were serious about the

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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2009

Aaron Task over at Yahoo’s tech Ticker makes a point I’ve made here at BitsBlog several times:

Before this discussion goes any further, Jeff Matthews of Ram Partners, wants you (and presumably policymakers) to remember this: “The epicenter of the

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Eric Florack on March 23rd, 2009

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This is the “Goin’ Mobile” edition.

Yes, that pic is taken outside the Jake in Cleveland, just before a wind gust knocked it over, wiping

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Eric Florack on March 12th, 2009

Somehow, I ended up on the mailing list of the New York GOP.  Found this in my mail last night:

“Since its founding, the Republican Party has stood for the time honored values and ideals of opportunity, personal responsibility, accountability

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Eric Florack on February 25th, 2009

OK, I know that by now a lot of you either saw or read though this speech of Obama’s, and so it’s old news. But I’ve seen nobody rip through this thing point by point. I can understand why… with

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Friday, and lots of fresh snow up the ground in Bitsville, today. A lot of it coming from the Obama people, and congressional

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Well, it took almost 3 months, but Congress finally passed the bill Saturday, on older version of which was  passed by the House in May, after some considerable back and forth between the Senate

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Eric Florack on June 7th, 2008

I said yesterday morning:

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) suggested that oil companies may be manipulating energy markets as Enron did in 2001, and that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Federal Trade Commission needed to more aggressively regulate all

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Eric Florack on June 6th, 2008

You didn’t hear about this yesterday, I’m willing to bet. The Senate Commerce Committee met on Tuesday, trying to figure out what to do about the sharp increase in prices on oil. I mentioned the other day that George Soros

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