Eric Florack on July 5th, 2009

Word from Channel 4 (NBC)  in the DC area

D.C. councilman and former mayor Marion Barry was arrested Saturday night and charged with stalking a woman, police said.

The United States Park Police said Barry was arrested in Washington after

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Eric Florack on June 22nd, 2009

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

railcar3This is the Rail car Graffiti Edition. Sorry about the blur, the thing was moving at track speed. (yeah, right)

  • They’ve let

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2009

First off, you’ll pardon me if I don’t shed any tears over Tom Daschle. Hopefully, he’ll be staying gone for good this time, though I doubt that’ll happen.  He’s too deep in the councils of the Democrats to stay gone

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Eric Florack on July 28th, 2008

I’m going to break my “No AP feed” rule to make a point, here.

 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) –A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage against an Islamic civil rights group

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Eric Florack on April 10th, 2008

Hume, last night:

The man who is about to become the United Nations’ lead investigator into Israeli conduct is standing by his comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis. Richard Falk will begin his job

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Hume, last night:

The United Nations Human Rights Council was supposed to be better than the old Human Rights Commission, which became famous for bias and hypocrisy. Now the same charge is being leveled at the new body

The council

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Eric Florack on February 19th, 2008

HAVANA -(AP)- An ailing Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when the new parliament meets Sunday.”I will not aspire to nor accept – I repeat,

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Eric Florack on February 16th, 2008

JOINT STATEMENT By the U.S. Embassy Baghdad and Multi-National Force-Iraq

Posted: 13 Feb 2008 02:33 PM CST

(Feb. 13, 2008) We warmly congratulate the Government of Iraq and the Council of Representatives on the parliamentary actions taken today to pass

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Eric Florack on June 10th, 2007

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around…  per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting

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