Eric Florack on May 13th, 2011

SYRACUSE, NY– As this is written I’m being unloaded in Syracuse.  A grey morning, here with a bit of rain.  I may end up going home after this, but I’m hoping not, since it means a shorter check. It’s Friday

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davidl on February 1st, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
STFU Jimmy, it is bad enough watching the Obami bungle the crisis in the Middle.  A failed president in his dotage seems to have forgotten that he has been out of office over thirty years, from Erika Niedowski, Hill

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davidl on February 3rd, 2010

Is Secretary of Transportation acting as representative of the People,  and making  a good faith effort to protect the safety of the public; or is LaHood acting as a shill for General Government Motors, and trying to drive down the

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Eric Florack on November 2nd, 2009

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

ramble-towtruck1We’re in November already. The kids around here spent evening before last one drink from door to door demanding candy or what

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2009

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

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  • THE OBAMACARE FALLOUT: The Politico’s David Rodgers scored an interview with Queen Nancy yesterday. It’s posted here. Says Rodgers:

    Even before

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2009

James at OTB:

Having initially been highly skeptical of Hillary Clinton’s appointment as Secretary of State, partly on the basis that she had neither diplomatic experience nor a diplomatic temperament, I feel obliged to pass on this observation from

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Eric Florack on August 3rd, 2008

Joyner notes Kevin Drum:

It’s a pretty good bet that any law named after a child is a lousy one.

He’s referencing “Sarah’s Law” here but he’s right: laws passed in the emotional wake of one very specific crime

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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 June 25th, 2008

Me at OTB just now:

Every major scientific body in the entire world is on the same ‘side’ on this one. And any payola to Hansen or any influence of Gore is far outweighed by Exxon-Mobil paying for the

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