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I began blogging in mid-2005, so this year is my first in the blogosphere during the run-up days to a National Election. What a frenzy! It's all about the election, all the time — or nearly so. Perhaps all general elections cause such turmoil on the web and elsewhere, and I simply didn't notice.
Last week, a friend of mine in Moline, Illinois, phoned. He wanted to share with me some of the not-so-well-covered information on Barack Obama. This friend of mine — I'll call him Bill — doesn’t use the web at all. Instead, he relies on the mainstream media and word of mouth as his sources. Not unexpectedly, Bill didn’t have any information I didn’t already know. In contrast, because I surf the web every single day, I had some information he had never heard....
Read the rest at Always On Watch.
- Never The Less, Immunize Her And Throw Her In Jail When She Refuses To Answer
Preferably at Riker’s Island.FH Buckley National Review, from an OUTSTANDING essay, a HEROINE FOR OUR TIMES:A conservative friend of mine asked me the other day why congressional Republicans had failed to offer amnesty to Lois Lerner in exchange...
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Ed Klein: Hillary Requested More Security For Benghazi, But The Orders Were Never Carried Out From Ace of Spades:He claims Bill Clinton is arguing with her that she should release the documents which would exonerate her... and doom Obama.I have...
- Killing A Story: How It's Done
Powerline: Killing A Story: How It's Done May 17, 2009 Posted by John at 8:33 AM In today's New York Times, Public Editor Clark Hoyt reveals the result of his investigation into the charge that the paper killed a story during the 2008 Presidential...
- Wheels Of The Bus Alert
Oh the Humanity! When will all this end!? (none too soon, I hope) (How long until B.O. throws himself under the bus?) From Debbie Schlussel : Federal Sources: Fitzgerald Held Off Blagojevich Bust to Protect Obama Election Chances; Did Obama Fail Ethics...
- Unveiling Saudi Arabia
Recommended reading: Observations on Arabs.My eyes lit up upon reading this sentence:I went to live and work in Saudi Arabia in 1998, and I "made my year" as expats there put it. Whoa! A blogger who hasn't simply read about Arabia but actually...
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Blogging During An Election Year
I began blogging in mid-2005, so this year is my first in the blogosphere during the run-up days to a National Election. What a frenzy! It's all about the election, all the time — or nearly so. Perhaps all general elections cause such turmoil on the web and elsewhere, and I simply didn't notice.
Last week, a friend of mine in Moline, Illinois, phoned. He wanted to share with me some of the not-so-well-covered information on Barack Obama. This friend of mine — I'll call him Bill — doesn’t use the web at all. Instead, he relies on the mainstream media and word of mouth as his sources. Not unexpectedly, Bill didn’t have any information I didn’t already know. In contrast, because I surf the web every single day, I had some information he had never heard....
Read the rest at Always On Watch.
- Never The Less, Immunize Her And Throw Her In Jail When She Refuses To Answer
Preferably at Riker’s Island.FH Buckley National Review, from an OUTSTANDING essay, a HEROINE FOR OUR TIMES:A conservative friend of mine asked me the other day why congressional Republicans had failed to offer amnesty to Lois Lerner in exchange...
-
Ed Klein: Hillary Requested More Security For Benghazi, But The Orders Were Never Carried Out From Ace of Spades:He claims Bill Clinton is arguing with her that she should release the documents which would exonerate her... and doom Obama.I have...
- Killing A Story: How It's Done
Powerline: Killing A Story: How It's Done May 17, 2009 Posted by John at 8:33 AM In today's New York Times, Public Editor Clark Hoyt reveals the result of his investigation into the charge that the paper killed a story during the 2008 Presidential...
- Wheels Of The Bus Alert
Oh the Humanity! When will all this end!? (none too soon, I hope) (How long until B.O. throws himself under the bus?) From Debbie Schlussel : Federal Sources: Fitzgerald Held Off Blagojevich Bust to Protect Obama Election Chances; Did Obama Fail Ethics...
- Unveiling Saudi Arabia
Recommended reading: Observations on Arabs.My eyes lit up upon reading this sentence:I went to live and work in Saudi Arabia in 1998, and I "made my year" as expats there put it. Whoa! A blogger who hasn't simply read about Arabia but actually...