THe WSJ today is running a column by Victor Davis Hanson… someone always worth listening to. He suggests that the 9/11 attacks and our curent problems can be laid at the feet of the left. He makes his case in

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The Telegraph reports:

“Horrifying new details of how Daniel Pearl, the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter, met his death have emerged from the interrogation of new suspects by Pakistani police.

Pearl, who was kidnapped in Karachi in January 2002, knew

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Eric Florack on May 10th, 2004

Oregon Daily Emerald reports that LA TIMES editor John S. Carroll, in delivering a lecture on ethics, gave some big-brother-like twisting.

“All over the country there are offices that look like newsrooms and there are people in those offices that

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Eric Florack on May 10th, 2004

Looks like Blogger’s got some added helps and redesign going for it’s post editing. Not sure if this adds any functionality, yet, but it looks nice. Oops. New Icon labeled ‘blockquote’.

I guess in the future, all my quotes will

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Eric Florack on May 10th, 2004

News from The Independent :

“Less than 24 hours after accusing the Walt Disney Company of pulling the plug on his latest documentary in a blatant attempt at political censorship, the rabble-rousing film-maker Michael Moore has admitted he knew a

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Eric Florack on May 10th, 2004

News reports from across the spectrum are saying Alan King dies at 76

A sad day. I always rather liked that gent. I met King once, many years ago, and did a brief radio interview with him. He struck me

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Eric Florack on May 10th, 2004

Stop by
Dan Drezner‘s place and drop him a note; he’s just lost his grandfather.

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Eric Florack on May 8th, 2004

OK, time to ‘fess up;

The reason behind my drop-off in blogging of late is rather simple; I’ve been working on replacing my beloved BitMobile. I’ve gotten to really like the Chevy Astro frame, and design, and a bit more

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AP reports:

“DEXTER, Mich. – Russell Tanner better stay inside during a thunderstorm, because if somebody has a chance of being struck by lightning, it’s him.

The 78-year-old Dexter resident won his second $1 million scratch-off lottery game last

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WaPo numbers are in and they don’t look good for the Democrats trying to turn Abu Ghraib into votes.

“A large majority of Americans believe that embattled Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld should not resign over the Iraq prison scandal,

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Eric Florack on May 7th, 2004

I have a few irons in the fire today, and likely won’t be putting up a bunch of things until tnonight, when I have a chance to read the Rumsfeld Transcript.

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Eric Florack on May 6th, 2004

The New York Post opines today:

“The latest line from Turtle Bay is that the Oil-for-Food mess isn’t really a scandal at all, just an anti-U.N. plot inspired by ‘right-wingers’ – or, alternatively, by former Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi.
Those

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Eric Florack on May 6th, 2004

Here’s a picture of the President that the left would rather you didn’t see

“He worked the line at a steady campaign pace, smiling, nodding and signing autographs until Prince spoke:
‘This girl lost her mom in the World Trade

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Ann Coulter does it again: :

“Over in the alternative universe of the 9/11 commission hearings watched only by me, Richard Ben-Veniste recently proposed an amazing new standard for investigating Arabs in this country. In the middle of haranguing Condoleezza

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Eric Florack on May 5th, 2004

QandO, speaking of the tourtue cases in Iraq:

“Although, naturally, Mr. Kennicot wants these Army cowboys strung up.

This also brings up an interesting question. If Mr. Kennicot’s standard is correct, then couldn’t I declare that, since the 9/11

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