Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

Looks like Conservative Issues/Com has gone dark. The address still shows on my DNS as going to SimpleHost, but the SimpleHost server rejects all requests.

Sad to see him go; CI was running echoes of my weekly column there for

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

I’m prepareing this site to be moved to a commerical host. As such I’m trying to trim the un-needed bandwidth a bit. An easy way to deal with that is not to display a whole month of posts each time

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

BET.com – The Country’s Most Segregated Cities:

According to BET, they are:

10. Philadelphia
9. Chicago
8. New York City
7. Buffalo-Niagra Falls, N.Y.
6. Cincinnati
5. Newark, N.J.
4. St. Louis
3. Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, Ohio
2. Detroit
1. Milwaukee-Waukesha,

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

In doing some basic research on Weasely ClarkBar, I’ve stumble onto a story originally run on the Voice of America in early August of 1999. Much has been suggested about why Clark got canned, along with many denials that he

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

Reuters’ Cynthia Littleton reports that:

” Fox served up a reality one-two punch that propelled the network to the top spot Monday evening with the third season opener of ‘American Idol’ and the 9 p.m. bow of ‘My Big,

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

AP is reporting::

“COLUMBUS, Ohio – After seven years of debate, lawmakers moved closer Wednesday to passing a law that would bar Ohio from recognizing same-sex marriages and keep some state employees from getting benefits for their domestic partners”

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

Silandara’s Blog is a nice respite from the political world, at least for today. Some wonderful writing. Her grandmother has died, and she’s going through a hard time just now. Hasn’t posted in a few days. But what she has

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The Washington Times and damned few other places, are reporting that:

” Shi’ite Muslims marched through Baghdad for a second day yesterday, this time demanding the execution of Saddam Hussein whose Sunni-dominated regime repressed the Shi’ite majority for decades. “

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

Democrats for Bush/Cheney 2004

A great story this, and a worthwhile site.

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

ZDNet is reporting:

“Microsoft says it may have been overaggressive in threatening Web entrepreneur Mike Rowe over the name of his Web site, Mikerowesoft.com”

Hmmm. The Giant Blinks…..

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

Me at Drezner’s place this morning. Italics are the person I’m responding to, and below it, my response. I’d like to say I’m shocked by his suggestions, here, but I’m really not, as you’ll see.

Don’t be surprised by

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

Am I the only one who roiled a bit at Pelosi?

“But event the most powerful nation in the history of the world must bring other nations to our side to meet common dangers.”

Perhaps she wasn’t listening to the

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

Boortz apparently shares my thoights as regards the reaction of the Democrats last night during the SOTU address:

“My most vivid memory of last night’s speech was the Democrats clear hatred of the mention of anything relating to tax cuts. 

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