Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

Speaking of Jason, he notesa report in The Globe and Mail that Paul Martin has used taxpayer money to hold onto power.

Essentially it works like this:

In exchange for agreeing to the New Democratic Party’s demands for more

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

At Musing , Jason notes that the Canadian government thinks anyone earning over $51k (USD) /yr is rich.

Jason calls this claim pathetic, and he’s right.

But what this really is, is a Canadian government trying to make the citizens

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

Outside The Beltway passes on some good news;

Laura’s breast cancer surgery yesterday “couldn’t have gone better,” in the words of her surgeon Dr. Katherine Alley. Initial sentinel node testing done during surgery showed no signs of cancer involvement in

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

Says C-Net;

Microsoft came under renewed criticism from gay- and lesbian-rights groups on Tuesday after an online report indicated that the company is using former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed’s lobbying firm.

Ah, yes… the politics of Personal Destruction,

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

So says Slashdot.

They’ve got pics, too.

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

In answer to the repeated questions from readers….

Yes, I have seen the Drudge Flash. I even heard the event on air. But I didn’t comment on it here for several reasons.

First and foremost; Err America engaging in

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

Remember under Reagan the rich actually paid more in taxes than everyone else? Odd, the Democrats never gave him credit for that, still claiming that the irch were not paying their fair share, whatever the hell that was supposed to

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

Pravda West, otherwise known as the WaPo is amazingly reporting something positive about President Bush. Only reason I can think of that they’d do such a thing is that they don’t consider that it’s all that positive a thing…. (Actually

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

AP- WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Tuesday rejected compromise offers that would allow minority Democrats to continue to block judicial nominees, saying all of President Bush’s past and future court choices deserve confirmation votes from the GOP-controlled

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

Captain’s Quarters note this morning that there’s a rather large hole in the report we were all fed yesterday about there being no weapons sent to Syria.  As I noted on OTB yesterday… seems to me they’d forgotten about that

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